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The Women Of The E-Right
An extremely online spotter’s guide
Apr 26, 2024
There has been a huge and somewhat bad-tempered recent outbreak of e-Right internet discourse, on the Men And Women Thing. (If you weren’t there, and really want to know, NRP has recent summaries.)
Some of that discourse turned on whether or not women should have anything to do with Right-wing politics full stop, or any kind of politics. Perhaps, some suggested, there’s something wrong with the women who do. If so, there is evidently something wrong with quite a lot of us; because despite the basement swarm’s best efforts to render the e-Right rebarbative to all but their own kind, a significant minority of women are – for some reason – still hanging in there.
Who are these women? To those genuinely puzzled, or perhaps to aid Mr Women’s Views Should Be Automatically Discounted in making a more granular assessment of the “foids” still willing to share oxygen with him, here’s a (for the thin-skinned, please: affectionate, tongue-in-cheek) spotters’ guide to the female tribes on the internet Right.
And before you ask: no, I’m not naming names. Any resemblance between these descriptions and actual people in real life is purely coincidental.
Fond of racist dogwhistling, posting nudes, and taking group photos at hip events you weren’t invited to. Probably smarter than you, almost certainly more beautiful, also highly ideologically unreliable and not remotely interested in actual politics. May have borderline personality disorder.
Not generally religious, and often ironically single, professional, and public-facing advocates for piety, marriage, and women withdrawing from public and political life. Lurked on manosphere forums long enough to learn the talking points, built a massive following very fast by repeating them while female. Now audience capture and the need to make rent means they can’t stop. A target of mockery by several of the other tribes.
I mean, obviously all their (mostly male) YouTube following is there for the hard-hitting commentary on Right-wing issues, but VPs are also pretty and telegenic. The first wave of VPs came of age with YouTube and got big in the 2016-2019 alt-Right scene. There have been subsequent waves, but many of the originals are still around. Older VPs usually have a lot of tea on Right-wing media men, and may over time develop a more jaundiced view of the Pickme’s “redpill” talking-points, thanks to first-hand experience of trying them in practice.
Raised in, or has adopted, an ultra-conservative and usually religiously-inflected version of gender complementarianism. Has multiple kids with Based Patriarch Husband, plus an e-career creating inspiring content on domestic bliss and “traditional gender roles”. If Based Patriarch Husband turns out to be an asshole, she’ll assume it’s her own fault and she needs to pray harder.
Often drawn from the ranks of Viral Pinups and Pious Tradwives who got married within e-Right circles, then discovered too late that their Based Patriarch Husband was an asshole. Having tried praying harder, to no avail, and subsequently divorced, RRRs are belated converts to the analysis of women’s opression as a sex class, but have emphatically not signed up to any other part of the progressive stack.
Homeschooling mom of several, and gifted amateur astrologer, who went down the wholefoods rabbit hole then kept going. Now a committed vaccine, birth control, chemtrail, xenoestrogen, microplastics, and white genocide truther. Very fond of beef tallow.
Antifeminists come in several varieties, including Classic (the Phyllis Schlafly package), Right-Liberal (“Equal opportunities but nothing else please!”), and Barking Mad (“REEEE FEMINISM IS WITCHCRAFT!!!”). Broadly conventional culture-war views on other topics.
Not Your Regular Young Conservative. Nigel Farage groupies, remigration enthusiasts, and occasional sellers of foot photos, the Anglofuturist E-Girls were scarred for life at a tender age by seeing disgustingly compromising photographs of household-name British conservatives. Anglofuturist E-Girl are esoterically internet famous and invited to every London Right-wing event, but no one is quite sure what they do for a living.
A mixed bag of extremely online bluestockings, former progressives mugged by evo psych, pro-welfare pro-lifers, social conservatives with questions about male violence, and Terfs Who Broke Bad. Reactionary Feminists are probably a contradiction in terms, but at least some of that is my fault as I coined the term. Sorry/not sorry!
Have I missed any? Leave a comment below. (NB: I describe all these tribes with affection. If you want to hate on women I can’t stop you, but please don’t do it here.)
