If you haven’t been reading Amanda Marcotte in Salon, you’ve been missing gems like these:

As journalist Lyz Lenz writes in her newsletter, “Maybe 70 percent of women file for divorce because having a husband adds seven extra hours of housework, work that a wife is expected to do. Maybe it’s because women, despite also having full-time jobs, still do the majority of childcare and housework.” A lot of women are sick of it — even women who claim to disagree with feminism. But it’s also no surprise that men aren’t going to let all that free labor get away from them so easily.”

And …

… when it comes to gender and power, the struggle is keenly felt, even in Republican households. Right-leaning women may talk trash about feminism, but, as Republican men often learn the hard way, even conservative women have their limits on how much crap they’ll take from men. This is about keeping power over their own wives and daughters, not just controlling some strange women who live far away. Boebert and Taylor Greene may insist their divorces are merely “personal,” but as any feminist could tell you, the personal is political, baby. 

Excerpts from Marcotte’s article, “Lauren Boebert’s divorce exposes the dark little secret of red state life“