Four men are going to trial for a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
FILE - Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announces the first round of Michigan Mobility Funding Platform grants on Sept. 15, 2021, at the GM Mobility Research Center at Kettering University in Flint, Mich. The plot to kidnap Whitmer represents a growing anger in U.S. politics, and violence – both physical and non-physical – that is disproportionately aimed at women elected officials and candidates, and particularly women of color.
That could have longer-term effects by pushing women to leave public office or deterring them from running, potentially reversing the progress women have made in diversifying who represents the country at City Hall, on school boards and in statehouses and other offices. “It’s like ‘Who does she think she is trying to tell us what to do?'" Krook said."There is a sense they’re trying to delegitimize her because they don’t feel like she has the right, that she’s allowed to be there because she’s a woman ... I think they take it very personally.”
GOP women also are targets. The study found that during a two-week period, nearly one-third of the tweets directed atwere abusive. With the exception of then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who received a higher-than-usual percentage of abusive tweets, between 5% and 10% of tweets directed toward men studied were abusive.
Conroy started receiving voicemails with people calling her gendered slurs and saying things like “get back in the kitchen" and"you're going to get what you deserve.” A commenter on Facebook said he hopes she sleeps with a gun under her pillow so she's ready for what's coming.
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