🧩 BND Motif Index · M510
Traitor to her sex
A woman betrays her sex by defending a man who has harmed her or other women, using religious or moral arguments to justify her actions.
🎭 Archetypes🗂️ Part and whole🗂️ Gendered Accusation Narratives🗂️ Sex and gender
- 6claims filed under it
- 2left shows it came up on
- 4claims retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Patriarchy
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
⚖️ center 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
🐘 right 0
🦗 none of our right shows, so far
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-24 “Susan Collins does not stand up for women because she supported Brett Kavanaugh.” 🗳️ voters in The Focus Group
- 2026-10-24 “Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign used a woman as a character witness despite her supporting a rapist.”
🎙️ The Young Turks (podcast) 🎙️ The Kyle Kulinski Show - 2026-10-06 “A woman who defends an accused rapist is condemned for shaming his victim, one survivor turning on another.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-06 “Angela Paxton, Ken Paxton's estranged wife, is campaigning for him despite their divorce and allegations of his infidelity and corruption.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-05 “A woman is hypocritically supporting a corrupt, adulterous ex-husband while claiming to be acting on Biblical grounds.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-05 “Angela Paxton, Ken Paxton's estranged wife, is supporting her husband's Senate bid while avoiding mentioning him by name, casting the Republican ticket as a corrupt, unethical entity that subjugates women and denies them bodily autonomy.” 🧶 people online
M510 · first seen 2026-10-06 · last 2026-10-24 · what this is · how the index works