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My latest: White supremacists are obsessed with recruiting and controlling white women’s wombs. That control is central to “replacement theory” and #SteveKing's latest rape comments reveal the misogyny at the heart of white supremacist ideology: nbcnews.com/think/opinion/…
Replacement theory reduces cis-gender heterosexual women to their wombs and considers giving birth to lots of white babies to be a woman’s highest calling. From #SteveKing's Twitter feed to manifesto of the El Paso shooter, white supremacists are obsessed w/falling birth rates.
Analysts of white supremacy focus on the violence carried out, mostly, by men. But they aren’t paying enough attention to the role of women - from “trad wives” to women who issue “birth challenges” & others who vote for right wing parties in larger # than men despite the misogyny
In "Proud Boys & White Ethnostate: How Alt-Right is Warping the American Imagination," Alexandra Minna Stern explains variety of ways influential white nationalists & far-right men & women encourage procreation by appealing to “urgency of perpetuating ancestral white bloodlines.” 
Stern also cites a blogger known as Wife with a Purpose, who gained some notoriety in 2017 with a viral "white baby challenge." “As a mother of 6, I challenge families to have as many white babies as I have contributed,” said the blogger, whose name is reportedly Ayla Stewart.
But this push to recruit white women’s wombs for is an inherently misogynist one. Hence push vs anything that could dissuade/distract women from reproducing,be it feminism,working outside the home,or even voting. Much of that work is done by a subculture of far-right women online
The trad-wife subculture, Kelly says, blames the objectification of women and sexual violence on “modernity” and “offers chastity, marriage and motherhood as an escape.”
For a March article examining the “replacement theory” published after the Christchurch mosque massacre, Kelly told @NellieBowles that she had noticed a worrying trend in online white supremacist subcultures she studies: the need for white women to be re-educated.
But this kind of virulently sexist rhetoric has not stopped white women, especially in Europe, from voting for right-wing populist parties.
