‘Conservative Dad’s’ Calendar Featuring Scantily Clad Riley Gaines and Other Sexy Pics Sparks Outrage on Right
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A new pinup calendar featuring “the most beautiful conservative women in America” has conservatives up in arms.
The “Ultra Right” beer company, which boasts the mission of selling “anti-woke beer” following the right-wing outrage over Bud Light’s collaboration with Dylan Mulvaney, promoted its new calendar entitled “Conservative Dad’s Real Women of America 2024 Calendar” earlier this month. The women inside, including Riley Gaines, Dana Loesch, and Sara Gonzales, are in various states of dress from a string bikini to a “sexy Christian housewife” to a parody of Mulvaney (who was doing a parody of Audrey Hepburn) to “very large guns and a t-shirt.”
But the outrage is coming from inside the house, as other conservative women simply cannot believe that conservative men like to look at scantily clad women and that these 12 women consented to letting them.
You can probably guess what I think about a calendar branded for “conservative dads” filled with pictures of women, many of them married and many of them very scantily clad. Hate it. I also find the discourse ridiculous, as if we’re all supposed to pretend we don’t understand the…
— Allie Beth Stuckey (@conservmillen) December 27, 2023
“Riley, we love that you stood up for young girls who don’t want men ogling them in the locker room while they get undressed. Now please get undressed so Conservative Dads can ogle you”
This literally happened pic.twitter.com/tmR7v7fJsZ
— Peachy Keenan (@KeenanPeachy) December 27, 2023
The infighting even extended to Twitter/X as Wrongthink host Anna Perez went after calendar model Josie the Redheaded Libertarian (who went after Perez for criticizing the calendar):
“Riley, we love that you stood up for young girls who don’t want men ogling them in the locker room while they get undressed. Now please get undressed so Conservative Dads can ogle you”
twisting yourself into a pretzel to compare my headshot profile picture to a calendar shoot made for dads to lust after. This is what happens when you’re desperate to justify a poor decision you made. https://t.co/evH2UBtnLB
— Anna Perez (@AnnaPerezDC) December 26, 2023
Rachel del Giudice compared the calendar photos to soft porn on the conservative Daily Signal:
We have become so callous as a society to the constant broadcasting of sex everywhere that we don’t even bat an eyelash anymore to sexual exploitation, especially if it’s “soft.”
She added:
Perhaps more disturbing, though, is the fact that this calendar is marketed to dads. Men should honor women, and fathers especially have a duty to honor the mother of their children, and to set an example for those children both in public and in private.
Anything that invites lust is dishonoring. Conservatives who claim to love family, and pride themselves on being part of a movement that is going to change the culture, lose credibility in moments such as these. It’s hard to respect a movement that says it wants to protect women, build strong families, and change the culture when it does the same things that contribute to the downfall of the culture — but with “conservative” packaging.
So, for those keeping score: Conservatives should be upholding family values like the sanctity of marriage, honoring women, especially the mothers of their children, celebrating “real” women without objectifying them, but also reiterating the alpha male status that will make America great again.
This is an opinion piece. The views expressed in this article are those of just the author.
