The Women Behind The Alt-Right

When I watched the videos from the hate protest in Charlottesville I couldn't help myself asking "Where are the women?". Shamefully I must admit my first thought was: "Well, we are women. Without all of that testosterone running through our bodies there has to be much less of us inside racist groups". I decided to research and, to my surprise, I was wrong, very, very wrong.

Journalist Seyward Darby found them. They hide behind the Internet and inside of their houses or encouraging other women into it by workshops and seminars. They are everywhere and they are many, perhaps, one for every man. However, if they are so many, why don't we see them parading and yelling underneath Robert Edward Lee's statue? Interesting enough in the interviews Seyward performed, these women claimed that their place is not it the fight, not holding the torches or the guns for that was the man's job. Instead, their contribution to the cause was by feeding the alt-right man, loving them, nurturing them, having and raising their babies. And that that was stronger and more powerful than any posible protest.

"As for female empowerment, there’s nothing that has made me feel more empowered in my life than supporting and being supported by a strong man,” Claudia Davenport, an alt-right activist, said in an interview with The Economist

To fit into the movement, alt-right women must be visible in the right way. They have to prove they aren’t threatening traditional gender roles: both through what they say, and how they look. The majority of well-known, female alt-right personalities are young, attractive women.

“When women do appear in alt-right journals or online discussions, it’s as objects of attraction,” said Kelly Baker, an author who specializes in gender and white extremist groups. 

Our society is becoming more openly prejudiced, but the fact is that nobody (female, male, rich or poor) who marches under a nazi flag and arm to arm to KKK members shall be defended as 'very fine people'.