As a conservative woman living in Texas, I often feel like I live a double reality. I’m a mother and a writer, but that’s not all. I go to church, laugh with friends and wave to my neighbors as we go to our dogs.
At dinner, my children and I discuss the battles, it was about rights and the best and most of all things that happened that day (we call them peaks and low levels). I like to cook, I hate to clean and I probably have to have a better morning routine. My life is similar to millions of other women in America.
But online, in the inherited news media and in my ever -increasing inbox, I live in a different world. In this world I am depicted – and I watched – through the only lens: my conservative beliefs. As such, I am easy to hate, mockery and contempt.
I am far from the only woman who experiences this abuse. Progressives say they value women, but they routinely demonize conservative women who refuse to comply with the forms in which the Left is trying to force us. This is not only bad for women like me and our society, but it is also a bad reflection of reality. Tens of millions of American women cover traditional values and conservative ideas.
We are also more than our policy.
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The demonization of White House press secretary Caroline Levitt
The Washington Post provides a recent example of how conservative women are so often humiliated and patronized in the main media. Last Monday’s profile of White House press secretary Carolyn Levitt, written by the reporter Kara Vogt, dripping from leniency, starting with the title: “In the world of Carolyn Levit, the word of Trump is enough.”
White House press secretary Carolyn Levitt holds a briefing for the White House press in Washington, Colombia County, on March 26, 2025.
Levitt is a 27-year-old pierced Christian and conservative, who is an excellent speaker on President Donald Trump’s agenda.
But the publication tried to reduce the faith, personality and confidence from the beginning of the article: “The newest press secretary of Trump is shining, blond and apple beech-one of Leonard da Vinci’s Madons was formed as a hit of Fox News. Its delivery is righteous.
If the trivialization of a finished woman was not so disgusting, I would laugh. Can you imagine the publication smugly reducing a progressive woman (or man) such as “radiant, blond and apple with apples”?
Leviticus is not the only conservative woman to recently received the patronage of the mail. The profile of the second lady Usha Vance started with this sentence: “Most of what we know about the Wance of Vance, which we know because her husband told us.”
Vice President JD Vance and the Second Lady Usha Vance tour the US space forces base in Greenland, on March 28, 2025.
It doesn’t matter that Vance is a graduate lawyer who deals with Chief Judge John Roberts in the US Supreme Court. Ignore that she graduated from the University of Yel with a law degree and a bachelor’s degree and from Cambridge with a master’s degree. Brush aside that it served on the boards of the National Opera of Washington and the Synisani Sympic Orchestra.
We only know according to the publication what her husband allows her to tell us.
Another news story – a profile of the conservative influence Alex Clark, published on the day before the November elections – is enveloped in opinion and condescending observations. Clark, for example, has been accused of participating in conspiracy thinking about the food industry, “in accordance with Trump’s inspired paranoia of Trump’s right to the deep state of masterful planning.”
Each of these profiles is written or coined by Vogt, who worked for Mother Jones and Rolling Stone, both ultra -liberal publications before joining the post as a policy reporter.
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The neglect of conservative women is not limited to the post. The latest titles of the salon were even more in their attacks, including the one: “The Maha Mothers’ Mizogian Program. The conservative is not just wrong, you see, they hate women, including by presumption.
The salon also gave us this attack of good taste-“from” Mar-A-Lago Face “to Uncanny Ai Art: Maga loves ugly in Trump’s submission.” The article by senior writer Amanda Marcot is filled with cruel attacks on conservative women in leadership positions, including the wisted of the wisteds for the internal security.
The article includes this gem: “The sliding queens also cover the foreign gender performance, but it is to undermine the hard roles of gender instead of enhancing them.
Drag Queens are cool. Conservative women are rough. And this is what goes on for journalism in 2025.
Set up to ABC’s “The View” to see the progressive hosts, all women torn to conservative women in the Trump administration. No one is more myzoginistic for conservative women than liberal women. Again, the irony would be funny if not so disgusting.
Voght and Marcotte are part of many inherited media reporters who seem to be liberal first and second journalists. This bias has destroyed the confidence of the news industry, but it also damaged more than helped their allies in the Democratic Party.
Conservative women deny their beliefs
For all their shortcomings, Democrats used to promote tolerance and inclusion. At least they said they had accepted women’s rights.
But tolerance obviously does not extend to many women who exercise their right to form their own beliefs and vote for candidates of their choice. In the eyes of the progressives, these women, conservative women, deserve to depreciate their achievements and their appearance made fun of.
I’m tired of being jokes and contempt because I am a conservative woman and mother. I was tired of inherited media acting as women like Leviticus, Vance and me, we are an anomaly.
And I ended up seeing the progressives in politics and journalism, reflecting women for the perception of conservative political and social values.
Nicole Russell is a colonist at USA Today and a mother of four living in Texas. Contact her at nrussell@gannett.com and follow her in X, before that Twitter: @Russell_nm. Sign up for her weekly newsletter, the right song here.
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