A calendar launched by a ‘woke-free’ beer company featuring conservative women in pin-up poses has sparked a controversy over right-wing morality.
Conservative Dad’s Ultra Right Beer teamed up with women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines to sell a 2024 ‘Real Women of America’ calendar. It features Riley Gaines, Dana Loesch and a host of others in red, white and blue, bikinis and other sexy poses.
After being released in time for the holidays, the product was criticized by some Republicans who felt that looking at photos of women in seductive poses went against the Christian values at the heart of the conservative movement.
“I just don’t see the value in marketing what in some images is essentially soft porn for married (or unmarried) men,” says evangelical commentator and podcaster Allie Beth Stuckey.
However, others, such as Megyn Kelly, have pushed back, saying the conservative movement is no longer based solely on Christian values and that women can be “sexy.”
Conservative Dad’s Ultra Right Beer Teamed Up With Women’s Sports Advocate Riley Gaines to Sell a ‘Real Women of America’ 2024 Calendar
The calendar featuring conservative women in pin-up poses has sparked a controversy that has divided the right-wing community
Along with Gaines, many other well-known conservative women, including former NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch, are featured on the calendar showing off their gun collection.
Evangelical commentator and podcaster Allie Beth Stuckey (pictured) criticized the calendar, calling it ‘soft porn’
The controversy, dubbed “calendargate,” comes as conservatives debate the future of the movement. The party has become more secular in recent years as Trump has become president and is running for the White House again.
Conservative Dad’s Ultra Right Beer was launched to compete with Bud Light after its disastrous collaboration with transgender Dylan Mulvaney.
In addition to Gaines, many other well-known conservative women, including Kim Klacik, Sara Gonzales, Ashley St. Clair, Josie The Redheaded Libertarian and Peyton Drew, are featured on the calendar.
In the calendar, St. Clair poses with her hair in an Audrey Hepburn-esque updo and pearl necklace, similar to Mulvaney’s Bud Light ad.
But the calendar sparked outrage from some evangelicals, like Stuckey.
‘You can probably guess what I think about a calendar for ‘conservative dads’, filled with photos of women, many of whom are married and many of whom are very scantily clad. Hate it.’
“I also think the discourse is ridiculous, as if we all have to pretend that we don’t understand the purpose of a calendar with posed, full-body photos of women,” Stuckey said.
Former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis said, “This is the problem with conservatives who think they can behave like the secular world. If conservatives aren’t morally grounded Christians, then what are we actually “preserving”?
“This whole calendar thing is a no from me, but it’s not surprising given the current state of the movement.”
The calendar is the first to “specifically spotlight the most beautiful conservative women in America,” the company claims.
The partnership pledged to donate 10 percent of sales to “the Riley Gaines Center” — a foundation founded by the swimmer that aims to “protect” women’s sports from “far-left ideology that wants to destroy women’s athletics.”
Christian activist Morgan Ariel said, “A conservative beer calendar that sexualizes women in our movement and markets it to married conservative men is DEMONIC.”
‘Ask women: when will you start wanting to be loved, cherished and appreciated by a man, instead of being sexualized and objectified by him? Your integrity should be worth more to you than a check you get for a photo shoot that devalues you.”
Some have said the calendar is demeaning to women and goes against Christian values because it is conservative and about modesty and faithfulness in marriage.
The calendar features Ashley St. Clair with her hair in an Audrey Hepburn-esque updo and pearl necklace, similar to Dylan Mulvaney’s Bud Light ad
Conservative Dad’s Ultra Right Beer was launched to compete with Bud Light after the disastrous collaboration with transgender Mulvaney
The calendar features conservative women posing in bikinis and wearing red, white and blue
Critics of the calendar represent a rift at the heart of the conservative wing divided between evangelical Christian values and a rawer side of the party
Madeline Kearns said in the National Review“Either the sexual revolution was fun and playful until a bunch of overzealous feminists and LGBT activists ruined it, or the sexual revolution was doomed from the start and is the ’90s-esque crap you see in ads, movies and calendars not much. away from our current relegation.’
‘What must be preserved is not yesterday’s liberalism, but timeless virtues and norms: a culture of courtship, a culture that emphasizes the sexual complementarity of men and women, abstinence before marriage, fidelity within it, openness to the gift of children, as well as the cultivation of a culture that values beauty over the vulgar and obscene. Lust, no matter how lucrative, undermines this project.”
Former Ron DeSantis speechwriter Nate Hochman said in a piece for The American Conservative“The narrow ideological framework within which the right operates allows only a long, never-ending line of “conservative alternatives to (X),” which reproduces the values and animates the assumptions of the dominant culture with a thin veneer of right-wing policy priorities painted on it. top.’
‘An anti-trans Bud Light is essentially still Bud Light. An anti-woke Playboy is essentially still Playboy.’
Critics of the calendar represent a rift at the heart of the conservative wing, which sees a growing divide between evangelical Christian values and a rawer side of the party, exemplified by the rise of Trump and online culture.
Kristin Kobes Du Mez, a historian who has studied evangelicalism and masculinity, shared The New York Times“As with many things with Trump, it’s a longer history, but he also changed the game.”
“Against that background, it’s healthy for a guy to lust after a very sexy woman.”
Seth Weathers, 39, founder of ‘woke-free’ American beer, said: ‘Beer companies used to be about great beer, American patriotism, fun, fast cars and beautiful real women. We’re bringing all these things back, but better than ever.”
Megyn Kelly – who once posed seductively for GQ – challenged critics’ idea that it goes against conservative values to pose in seductive photos.
‘Conservative can be sassy, why are conservatives, why do we all have to be stuffy and like not sexy?’ Kelly said.
Megyn Kelly challenged critics’ idea that it goes against conservative values to pose in seductive photos
Michael Moynihan, co-host of The Fifth Column podcast, said: “Not everything has to be the way forward; something may simply stay in place or have no lateral or backward movement.”
“The only thing that matters here, Megyn, and you know this as well as I do, is whether they taste good. If they are warm, it’s fine. If they’re not hot, I’m against the calendar.’
Political commentator Tim Pool said on his podcast with singer Phil Labonte, “Republicans are complaining about a calendar, while Democrats just removed Donald Trump from the ballot in Maine.”
“I see these tweets about Josie and they’re like ‘it’s demonic,’ and I’m like ‘what?’ She’s wearing a summer dress and an apron and she baked a cake.’
Labonte said, “I understand there are people with serious religious beliefs, shut up about these stupid things.”