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This US election cycle has been a whirlwind that has highlighted both the deep divisions in America, as well as a large underground consensus that has resulted in Donald Trump’s stunning re-election. Throughout the presidential election campaign, there was a considerable amount of rhetoric from the Left which assumed that anyone who was pro-Trump was a fascist racist – the accusation of Nazi was used liberally – who hated women, minorities and trans people. This rhetoric was promoted by the Harris campaign, following on from rhetoric used by the Biden administration, and some argue it may have played a part in encouraging the assassination attempts on Trump. But I want to focus on the claim that Trump and his supporters are "women-haters", by examining the post-election responses of those who believe the US has just slipped into a version of The Handmaid's Tale – as its author Margaret Atwood herself <a href="https://x.com/MargaretAtwood/status/1852392745442120082">alluded to</a>. Amongst the screaming and crying of many Democrat voters on TikTok and other social media sites, an unusual trend has arisen. A small group of extremely left-wing women are saying that they will, for the next four years, be refusing to have sex with men because they voted for Trump. This of course ignores that many women (43 per cent of those aged 18-44 years old) voted for Trump, while some men didn’t (46 per cent of 18-44 years old), though such details do not suit their sweeping generalisations. Many of these young women are saying they are now giving up on men by deleting dating and hook-up apps and going celibate, while also stocking up on abortion or contraception pills just in case. One example from social media is a video clip which shows a woman explaining that she and her friends were no longer going to have sex with men, and that women now need to come together for support and to give one another platonic affection over the next four years. Another clip shows a woman attempting to shave her head whilst stating that she is no longer going to try to look good for men, or to sleep with them. As pointed out by the Catholic conservative Daily Wire host Michael Knowles, this doesn’t impact many Trump voters as often they are married. So arguably it's all a bit of a waste of time, not to mention rather ineffective. Also, of course, for all this to take effect, it relies on a large number of Kamala Harris's female voters following this TikTok trend, and then actually holding to it for four years. I don’t think this is likely, or even possible, for a generation so indoctrinated with dreadful sexual ethics. However, even a minority of women going on to TikTok and saying such things speaks to a broader problem. The US is not the first place to have seen women going celibate for political reasons. In South Korea, the so-called "4B Movement" came in response to a perceived patriarchal and increasingly conservative landscape. In response, the movement proposed four key points: no dating, no marriage, no sex and no childbirth (the "B" in the name refers to the Korean-language term bi, roughly meaning "no", being applied to the four key tenets). Many of the women in the aforementioned videos are specifically citing this movement as an inspiration for what they are trying to achieve. Given the huge political divide between men and women in South Korea, their declining birthrates, and the economic issues this is bringing, these women in the US so keen to cite the movement may want to take note. The divide this could create in US society would be devastating at a time when the gap is already growing, and birth rates are plummeting. Returning to TikTok, these videos also show just how attached to the issue of abortion these women can be. For some of them, it is not only seen as a right, but as a rite. One video exposing this, shows a women saying she was now going to get pregnant so she could have lots of abortions, and looking very gleeful at the prospect. Part of the religion of the Woke Cult is the Rite of Abortion. Just as the Israelites in the Old Testament fell into the abhorrent rite of sacrificing their children to the false god Molech, some of these aforementioned women find a sinister pleasure in this ritual killing of their unwanted children. Whatever God tells us not to do carries with it a seduction to disobey, which is quite literally the oldest sin. <a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/are-the-dark-gods-back-enraged-crowds-psychosis-and-possession/">RELATED: Are the dark gods back: Enraged crowds, psychosis and possession?</a> This, of course, does not apply to all women, and is in fact involves a small if not tiny minority. But it is part of a wider mindset of the degradation of the human person – a rejection of womanhood and feminine humanity. I appreciate that I write all this as a man. I am not a woman, and therefore some could claim I have no right to define the terms of womanhood or to speak on behalf of women. There is some truth to this, and I certainly can't truly understand many of the difficulties and feelings that come from being a woman, since I am not one. However, in the same way that I, a human, can define what a cat is (as Matt Walsh points out in his What is a Woman? documentary), so too can a man objectively define a woman and vice versa. In the Bible, God creates humans, male and female, with their compatibility and need for one another engrained. They are to marry, serve one another and, ideally, have children. These are key components of what it means to be human, and thus precisely what some on the woke Left are rejecting. Sometimes this is by murdering their offspring or celebrating others who do. Sometimes this is denying the need for deep connection between men and women through marriage, by rejecting marriage or heterosexuality or both. Sometimes this looks like women trying to be like men either through attitude or through changing sex. Sometimes this involves denying the clear distinctions, biological realities, joys and difficulties of what it means to be male or female. Whilst Trump and his supporters have been derided as "anti-woman", it might be fair to throw the accusation back at those on the far-Left. One such accusation can be made on the basis that abortion is a denial of femininity because it denies the biological reality of motherhood. Another is that by allowing grown men to get changed in locker rooms with girls because the former claim to be female, this leaves women feeling uncomfortable and unsafe. A third is that through allowing women to get beaten in sports (sometimes literally) by trans athletes, the trans-rights movement is acting in a way that is anti-woman and abusive. And by allowing the bodies of confused young girls to be mutilated so they can pretend to be boys, that is surely the deepest rejection of femininity, certainly that I can think of. Each of the above denials of womanhood that many Democrat voters have gone along with, either directly or indirectly, has shown that it is often they that are guilty of the very thing they accuse Trump of – a hatred, or at least a disregard, of women and what it means to be a woman. Those women swearing off men and coupledom might not hate themselves (although I sadly suspect many do), but they appear to hate parts of what true womanhood is. And by doing so, they show their hatred for the God that created them in His image. Trump’s campaign did not show the hatred of women that many of Harris’ supporters claim it did. But many aspects of the Harris campaign did show, in fact, that there is a growing faction of women that struggle with what it means to be a woman and with their own femininity. The Bible, Catholic teaching, and particularly Pope John Paul II’s encyclical on the dignity of women, hold answers to these issues. Catholics need to continue being bold in proclaiming their pro-life stance and reminding women that their womanhood and ability to bring forth life are the most wonderful and true parts of themselves – gifts from God to all humanity. <a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/expect-to-hear-a-whole-lot-more-championing-of-reproductive-freedom-as-kamala-harriss-campaign-shifts-into-gear/">RELATED: Kamala Harris will hammer on endlessly about ‘reproductive freedom’ as campaign shifts into gear</a> Photo: An abortion rights demonstrator near the US Capitol while participating in the annual Women's March to support Women's Rights in Washington, DC, USA, 8 October 2022. Thousands of people gathered in Washington and in cities across the country to rally for reproductive rights, one month before the midterm elections. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images.)

Going celibate due to US election result suggests it’s not Trump who has a problem with womanhood

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