Mike the Mad Biologist

And “Russell Vought and His Theocrats” is the worst band name EVAR. July’s U.S. jobs numbers dropped last week, and they are awful for some people (boldface mine):

Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’s latest dismal jobs report.

Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July: Women lost 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000. Many of the jobs lost were in local government and leisure and hospitality—real jobs that real women, who are already dealing with slowed wages and rising inflation, work.

Meanwhile, a whopping 165,000 women exited the work force last month, meaning they were neither working nor looking for a new job. The number of men in the labor force remained steady…

In fact, more than double the number of women have left the labor force than men since the start of the year. A total of 845,000 women have left the workforce since January, while 406,000 men have left.

It’s hard not to see these startling statistics as part of the Trump administration’s broader campaign to undermine women’s rights and autonomy.

Fascists have always viewed women as secondary to men, especially when you add in the supposed need to strengthen the Volk restore fertility rates. Women losing jobs, especially Black and brown women, is not a bug for these assholes, but a feature.

The problem, over the long term, for conservatives is that the U.S. economy is structured such that we need women working: employers need the employees (especially with the crackdown on immigration), and households need the income. The last bit is critical electorally–many people have bills to pay and their household can’t afford to lose a substantial chunk of income.

Unfortunately, over the short term, life is going to suck for those women who voted for and against the fascists. The latter don’t deserve this crap.