Deja Foxx shows Allie Beth Stuckey why women must fight capital
By Maya Ellison · Reporting from Detroit ·
Debating Allie Beth Stuckey on feminism, Deja Foxx exposed the right's cultural distractions, proving that corporate greed and shredded safety nets are what actually crush working-class women across the country.
When conservative commentator Allie Beth Stuckey was asked how a male-dominated state legislature possesses the moral right to ban abortion, her answer laid bare the authoritarian logic of the modern right. “Every law regulates a person’s body,” Stuckey insisted on the podcast The Free Press, comparing state-mandated forced birth to traffic ordinances. “You can’t speed with your body. You can’t assault someone with your body.” In a debate against political organizer Deja Foxx over whether modern women still need feminism, Stuckey argued that the movement has been a “net negative” since the 2010s. Emancipation, she claimed, has delivered only depression, fractured families, and corporate conformity.
Stuckey mounted what is undeniably the right’s ablest critique of twenty-first-century liberalism. Modern feminism, she contended, abandoned ordinary workplace parity to obsess over abortion on demand and gender identity. It peddled a soul-crushing corporate hustle that tells women their worth depends on mimicking male careerism while devaluing the sacrificial vocation of motherhood. Look at the data, Stuckey urged. Despite unprecedented civil rights, American women report being sadder, lonelier, and twice as likely as men to take antidepressants.
The Ledger Capital Keeps Quiet
Yet that diagnosis crumbles the moment you move past podcast studios and look at the shop floor. What is crushing women across this country is not an overdose of bodily autonomy. It is the brutal machinery of unregulated capitalism. As Foxx rightly countered, women are not struggling to balance family and ambition because of cultural slogans. They are drowning because the median American home now costs $415,000, and the average price of childcare has surged to $13,000 a year. Meanwhile, employers treat human dignity as a dispensable line item.
Foxx pointed to the frontline reality. The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act passed, yet Amazon was sued just last month for refusing pregnant warehouse workers basic bathroom breaks, a glass of water, and a chair. Corporate monopolies deny a pregnant laborer the right to sit down during her shift. In that light, calling feminism obsolete is not just intellectual malpractice; it is a corporate cover-up. Stuckey celebrates traditional home life while defending an economic order that makes surviving an impossible relic for the working class.
Manufactured Panics and Real Paychecks
To keep ordinary citizens from recognizing that common bind, reactionary politicians manufacture endless cultural diversions. Stuckey spent the evening fixating on transgender athletes. Yet trans participants represent a microscopic 0.002 percent of college athletes. It is an engineered wedge designed to direct righteous frustration away from concentrated power. While the right rails against supposed moral decay, the political class strips away the actual scaffolding of family life. In Arizona, 44 percent of babies are born on Medicaid. Foxx noted that aggressive administrative barriers recently purged 55 percent of recipients from food assistance programs. Working mothers lost SNAP benefits simply because they could not navigate bureaucratic hurdles.
This follows an old, cynical American pattern. Preach traditional piety from above while gutting public safety nets from below. For generations, oligarchs have urged working-class families to seek private salvation through prayer and personal grit. That way, the state would never have to guarantee paid family leave or living wages. An economic policy that starves public healthcare and protects sweatshop conditions inside mega-warehouses is not pro-family. It is a war of attrition waged against working-class mothers.
Feminism is not an influencer aesthetic or a corporate ladder to climb. True feminism is collective leverage. It demands that pregnant warehouse hands get water, mothers get affordable childcare, and young families get wages capable of putting a secure roof overhead. Bosses and the politicians who serve them must be forced to surrender that ground. Until then, women do not need less feminism—they need a movement with the courage to fight capital head-on.