JD Vance: Raising grandchildren is ‘the whole purpose of the postmenopausal female’

There had not been a big eruption from JD Vance in days. Of course, there were those drag photos from Vance’s days as a Yale Law student. On Tuesday, he also made an appearance at the tennis tournament in Mason, Ohio, which is close to where he grew up (and it’s not anywhere near Appalachia). But it’s been several days since we’ve had a big headline about Vance saying something really toxic and awful about women. Most of “childless cat lady” sh-t came from interviews he did circa 2020-21. Well, here’s something spicy from that same era. Vance was really feeling himself and trying to create a conservative-coded socioeconomic model based on the unpaid labor of women.

NEW VANCE AUDIO: In an interview from 2020, JD Vance agrees with a podcast host who says having grandmothers help raise children is “the whole purpose of the postmenopausal female.”

He also agrees when the host says grandparents helping raise children is a “weird, unadvertised… pic.twitter.com/W4KwHfZyw2

— Heartland Signal (@HeartlandSignal) August 14, 2024

Vance is saying that one of his sons, either Ewan or Vivek, loves being around his grandparents and “it makes him a much better human being, to have exposure to his grandparents… and the evidence on this is super-clear, and that’s the whole purpose of the postmenopausal female.” Hear that, ladies? Once we hit menopause, our whole purpose is doing unpaid labor for our adult children and grandchildren. Vance is so utterly creepy – it wasn’t “oh, my son loves his grandma and she adores him.” No, he had to say that his mother-in-law’s whole purpose, as a postmenopausal woman, was to care for her grandchildren.

Then he talks about how Usha’s mother, a PhD and professor, took a year sabbatical from work to help Usha right after Usha gave birth to Ewan (the oldest Vance child). Instead of saying: “hey, I helped out too, I am a hands-on father and I knew how much Usha’s clerkship meant so I took time off to be with our son while Usha clerked,” Vance goes into another weird, creepy direction. He says that Usha’s mother lived with them for a year to help them with the first kid and it was a “weird, unadvertised feature of marrying an Indian woman.” I am so utterly disgusted by all of it, including his belief that he can create some kind of POLICY or political ideology out of “my mother-in-law hit pause on her career and moved in to help out because I’m too stupid and misogynistic to take care of a baby.”

Vance’s ideology is so popular, he literally brings dozens of people to his rallies. Specifically, two dozen.

24 people showed up for the JD Vance speech ???? pic.twitter.com/SMl0Q34Wns

— Liam Nissan™ (@theliamnissan) August 14, 2024

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