TPUSA's new message to girls: Hate yourself

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TPUSA’s new message to girls: Hate yourself
Speakers at the women's leadership summit continued Charlie Kirk's misogynist mission

By Amanda Marcotte
Senior Writer
Published June 12, 2026 6:45AM (EDT)


(Salon) Turning Point USA was co-founded by Charlie Kirk and its fundraising apparatus since his death has centered around fading MAGA fantasies that he will be a movement-reviving martyr. So it was a little surprising that one of the speakers at TPUSA’s Women’s Leadership Summit in San Antonio, Texas, Alex Clark, spoke about how Kirk made her feel bad about herself. Speaking last weekend to a crowd of largely high school and college-aged attendees, the host TPUSA’s “Culture Apothecary” remembered the cruelty of Kirk’s talk at last year’s summit, in which he shamed women who aren’t married by 30, suggesting they are old maids who likely would never find a husband.

“I was sitting in the audience and it stung a little bit,” Clark, 33, confessed. “I was sitting there as a woman in her 30s who very much wanted marriage. And I know that there’s a lot of other ladies in this audience who are in the same boat.” She even complained about “right-wing men” who “act like we’re supposed to just I guess live under an overpass and wait for our husband to fall from the sky.”

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Clark’s entire speech was a bundle of contradictions. She argued that it’s okay to be single, but then also chastised the audience, “I think we love ourselves a little too much.” She promised that being single isn’t God’s punishment, but then criticized unmarried women for being too picky, adding, “Now ask yourself, would you want to marry you?” At the end of this confusing speech, however, she reassured the audience that all this self-loathing and frustration was worth it.

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The message of self-loathing for women was carried throughout the San Antonio summit, which drew over 2,000 women, a remarkable turnout for TPUSA, which has been seeing dwindling crowds in recent months. Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, kicked things off with a speech denouncing feminism for teaching women to pursue “self-fulfillment,” which, she argued, is trying to be “like men.” She also coached them to “have more babies than you can afford,” without mentioning that her preferred party, Republican, keeps chipping away at social services that make it possible to raise them. ...............(more)

https://www.salon.com/2026/06/12/tpusas-new-message-to-girls-hate-yourself/

[underpants]

1. Still grieving I see ❤️

[Aristus]

4. I've never seen a woman more transformed by grief.

She looks twenty years......younger......

[PittBlue]

2. Where did this morons come from?

This is beyond disgusting.

[Midnight Writer]

3. The Party of Victimhood is always in thrall to those who victimize others the most.

[LymphocyteLover]

5. Conservative Christianity is a mental disease

[Dulcinea]

6. Every time I see TPUSA...

...I think Toilet Paper USA. It fits, I think.

[LymphocyteLover]

7. That article is wild-- funny but also sad

[slightlv]

8. Very sad...

all the progress we made through the decades of protest and hard work are being wiped out for generations to come. I'm old enough to remember when I couldn't have a bank account or a credit card in my own name. I couldn't buy a house on my own. I remember the days of Want Ads in the newspaper being divided among "male wanted" and "female wanted" ads. And, despite what my body tells me every day, I am NOT that old! I'm 70. This all happened within my working years!

And these were just a few of the physical manifestations. The work of trying to build up girls to have respect and love for themselves was still ongoing when trump came down that stupid escalator. Shame girls like TP is doing, and they think they have no alternatives but to marry the first guy to come along and ask... no matter how bad a man he make actually be. There's a reason a lot of first marriages end in divorce, especially if the couple is in their early 20's or younger.

I don't know how we make it out of this and recover. It will take more time than I have left to live... but I fear for the future of my grandniece. The world she is growing up in is one stuck in the 1940's, and earlier. When all the work of life was thrust upon their shoulders and all the shame of things going wrong was smashed into their faces. We're headed back down that road again; and it'll make us all the poorer for it, both in practicality and spiritually.

[LymphocyteLover]

10. we will recover... our society is not going backwards that much, despite the religious freaks in this article

[Skittles]

9. she was "stung" because she very much "wanted marriage"?

she should be STUNG because a man is defining what she needs to be fulfilled - WTF, ditch that sexist fucking nonsense, woman

edited to add: and FUCK Erika Kirk, she is high on money and power and will say and do whatever keeps that crap going

[milestogo]

11. What a self-loathing woman.