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If you're under 18, get out of here, young un.

If you're stuck in a relationship quandary,

or if you're looking for sexual harmony,

while there's nothing you can't ask on the Savage Lovecast.

Kind of a downer intro this week, but we live in Downer Times.

If you like your intro's light, if you come here to escape, you might want to skip ahead to the calls.

So, I feel like a broken record when I say this, but I am going to say it again. Husbands, you might want to skip ahead to the calls. So I feel like a broken record when I say this,

but I am going to say it again. Husbands, you can't leave, pregnancies you can't prevent,

politicians you can't vote out of office. That's the evangelical rights agenda for American

women. That's the GOP's agenda for American women. That is the Manospheres agenda for American women.

Taking them out of order, husbands you can't leave, they want to end no-fault divorce.

Imagine a woman having to get her abusive husband's permission to leave him.

Appalling to imagine, well, the religious right has imagined that scenario, and they love it.

And not just a religious right,

the not-so-religious openly misogynistic manosphere is fapping about a future where women

can't leave their abusive husbands. Most red-pilled guys can't get a woman to date them.

If a woman makes the mistake of marrying one of them, they don't want her to be able to escape.

Politicians, you can't vote out of office. They don't just want to gerrymander their way to safe seats and Republican minority rule, which they're one step closer to, thanks to the Supreme Court gutting the Voting Rights Act last week. We are so close to being Rhodesia with nukes. They also want to repeal the 19th Amendment, the amendment that gave women the right to vote. We know this because they keep telling us.

The New York Times published a piece last month with the chilling headline, The Women Who

Believed that Women Should Lose the Right to Vote. It's an idea the subhead reads that is

catching on with evangelical voters.

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