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Young Women are Being Urged to Give Up Their Careers and Birth Control

Turning Point USA is promoting “trad wives”

Caren White

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With all of the media attention focused on Trump and his legal troubles, other events are falling off the radar.

Don’t get me wrong. It’s not that I don’t think that we should be focused on Trump finally being brought to justice. It’s absolutely delicious. Trump being held accountable! Who would have believed it would ever be possible?

But there are other equally concerning happenings that we should be alarmed about. Like Turning Point USA’s annual Young Women’s Leadership Summit.

Turning Point USA’s Young Women’s Leadership Summit is an oxymoron. The whole purpose of Turning Point USA is to push the conservative agenda which includes keeping women barefoot and pregnant.

Which is basically what this conference was all about. A bunch of speakers telling young women that they should give up their careers for marriage and babies.

They call it “trad wife,” as in “traditional wife.” They claim that men love this.

Before we get into the argument of why men’s happiness is more important than women’s happiness, can we take a moment to talk about the fact that there are…

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Caren White
Caren White

Written by Caren White

Just an old woman ranting on the internet. I always speak my mind.

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