Progressive women continue to take issue with their conservative counterparts and have ginned up another unprovoked attack. A quick review of the behavior and rhetoric of females on the left toward MAGA women illustrates the enmity these gals have for right-minded ladies. Back in 2016, leftists blamed the election of Donald Trump on white women who only voted for Orange Man Bad because they were told to do so by their husbands. In the midterm madness of 2018, these same white gals were called on the carpet for being “maddeningly, confusingly, … unsisterly,” to quote the women’s fashion bible, Vogue. In 2024, leftists spitballed that it was once again those dastardly white females who threw the election to Trump, but this time they added that these gals weren’t just white and right, but “uneducated” as well. These MAGA women, for lack of a better term, have gotten under the skin of progressive ladies. Thus, it came as no surprise this week when The New York Times backed up its 18-wheeler to dump on conservative women once again – this time for being “thin, white, and right.”
The Times postulates that the “diet culture meets conservative morality” in an effort to reshape “beauty standards.” And, horror of horrors, it’s “resonating with women.” But these aren’t just any women – they are “conservative Christian influencers.” To be more specific, they are examining “how religion and weight loss culture intertwine and why this pairing is gaining traction.”
Thin, White, and Right: The Ideal MAGA Woman
The left looks no further than the new GLP1 diet medications like Ozempic and Zepbound as tools to advance what they call the “be thin messaging culture,” which they claim is being pushed mainly by conservative women who are “obsessed” with being thin. The authors of the Times article speculate that the exception to the GLP1 movement is the Christians, who receive negative messaging on diet prescriptions from their community of faith.
Weaving MAGA women in with Christianity is where things get a bit dicey for the left. It’s doubtful churches and Bible studies are maligning fellow believers for taking a pharmaceutical to help them lose weight. On a podcast about the article she co-authored, Jessica Grose pitched out:
“I think where it becomes coercive and controlling is when you’re telling people your salvation is tied to the way that you are eating, and if you step off this path, that is akin to consorting with the Devil. I just don’t think that that’s morally fair to people.”
It’s difficult to imagine a Christian church tying salvation to food choices – or body image, for that matter. None of that is germane to the issue of salvation. Frankly, it’s preposterous.
What Does All This Mean for Progressive Women?
Applying this theory across the board, what does this mean for progressive women? Shouldn’t they all be obese and unconcerned with positive, healthy food choices? One X poster couldn’t resist the temptation to follow the logic here: “Well when they’re right they’re right, left wingers are often fat and disgusting or scrawny and puny.” Others simply commented, “Very strange,” or “Bizarre.” Someone who goes by Fidelis Aurelius may have put it best: “These people have really lost their minds.”
If you believe this is only a chick fight, you’d be wrong. There’s a similar theory circulating about fit MAGA men versus the flabby, junk-eating leftist. But we’ll just let the men battle that one out. In the meantime, it seems that grouping people in political and religious categories may not be the best way to approach the topic of health, wellness, and fitness. And certainly, doctors don’t issue political tests before they write a prescription for Ozempic. Thin isn’t a conservative thing, it’s a health thing.
