NPR's Sexist 'Code Switch' Mocks Erika Kirk, Other Trump Women, Drags In Confederacy #Political
National Public Radio recently aired two frankly sexist episodes of its race-based podcast Code Switch , hosted by B.A. Parker and Gene Demby. The April 1 edition was titled “'Mar-a-Lago face': MAGA's aesthetic loyalty test.” Anti-Trump sexism is acceptable in "public" radio.
HOST B.A. PARKER: So, Gene, you've probably noticed that a lot of people in Trump world, particularly the women - but not just the women - have a certain look.
INAE OH: Dramatic sort of makeup. Heavy on the eyeliner. Almost all of them have this, like, long flowing hair. The outfits tend to be very close to the body....
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PARKER: I spoke to the journalist Inae Oh from Mother Jones, and she wrote an article called "In Your Face: The Brutal Aesthetics Of MAGA." And the internet has described this aesthetic as Mar-a-Lago face.
This sexist angle, which NPR surely wouldn’t tolerate from the right, was barely skimmed by the hosts the guest author from left-wing magazine Mother Jones.
DEMBY: But to be clear, there's always been a lot of scrutiny for the way that women in public life present themselves. You know what I'm saying? Whether that's in politics or elsewhere. Like, the way they dress and their bodies, obviously.
PARKER: That's true. And I know that talking about these things is really touchy for a lot of people. But the reason I want to get into this is that appearance is also used as a very specific way that people in power get to signal some important ideas about what they care about.
It’s evidently acceptable to objectify the bodies of Trump-supporting women, apparently.
OH: ….It's not about, you know, like, oh, my goodness, like, look at how perhaps ridiculous some of these people look, but it's more about how aesthetics are used to -- yeah, to gain power and to gain favor with the president of the United States.
PARKER: So today's episode, we talk to Inae about the evolving appearance of those within MAGA and what that suggests to Americans about how people, specifically women, are supposed to look in this country, and what that tells us about which performances of race and gender are encouraged.
The podcast descended into bad taste quickly by focusing on the beauty routine of recently widowed Erika Kirk, including “heavy eye makeup….That dark, smoky eye with the long blond hair.”
PARKER: And I remember as she was crying with, like, her very, like, blue eyes, and she's wiping her tears away and, like, so much jewelry on the hand as she was wiping her tears. And I was like, oh, this is a lot happening in this image.
The nasty insults continued, without a single acknowledgement of Kirk’s tragic widowhood.
OH: You know what comes to mind? I don't know if you saw the Washington Post story about the AI-generated ideal, like, MAGA woman. But she - I mean, she looks like essentially a photocopy, in my opinion, of Erika Kirk….
After noting Kristi Noem’s tenure as DHS secretary (“having a woman really enact a very cruel - what came to be a very cruel agenda.”) Oh perversely managed to turn Trump’s installing women in positions of influence into a self-administered antidote to his misogynistic reputation (as if NPR would ever credit Donald Trump for caring about his reputation among feminists).
OH: What they want to signal to the public is like, look, this is an administration that cares about women. This is an administration that supports women, that empowers women, that wants to see women in - you know, embracing sort of these high positions of power. And no one can deny that. And I think that that's also a function of the fact that this is a president who has been accused of misogyny. Well, yeah, if I can say so, it has misogynistic tendencies and is sexist and has also been accused credibly of sexual assaults and definitely harassment.
And I think for him, it only - it can only serve him to put -- you know, to sort of, like, decorate his administration with these women in power to sort of rebut that -- those accusations of sexism, while also at the same time, enacting laws and policies that are just so anti-women at the same time….
The April 4 “Code Switch” followed up with a different author, Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd, and an even more provocative premise: “From the Confederacy to the White House: How Southern beauty traditions went MAGA.” Boyd went on a hysterical historical rant.
ELIZABETH BRONWYN BOYD: The whole idea of MAGA, Make America Great Again, is based on nostalgia for something that never was, because when were we great? Was it during the removal of the first Americans? Was it when we held human beings in bondage?
"America was never great." It's an apt slogan for NPR.
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