The daughter of a New Mexico Republican senator publicly criticized her father over his online comments about women. She said he appears unable to speak respectfully about women, a trait she believes is common among many conservative men.
The woman’s name is Maddie Block, who is the daughter of New Mexico Republican Senator Jay C. Block. To her, her dad struggles to talk about women in a normal way, and, to illustrate her point, she shared three of her father’s recent X posts.
The first example features Senator Block reposting a video of a woman insulting President Trump. Maddie agreed with the woman’s sentiment. She, however, pointed out that the clip appeared to have triggered her father, who wrote, “What a hateful little woman.”
Maddie took issue with her father using the word “little” to describe her, saying, “I think calling her a ‘little woman’ made my dad feel like a ‘big man.’“
Maddie’s second example was her father congratulating the US Women’s Hockey Team after they won the gold medal during the Olympic Winter Games. The New Mexico senator wrote, “USA! Our women athletes are the best by far!!! Most beautiful too!!!“
‘Underlying Tone Of Misogyny’
She found it weird that her father would say “women athletes” instead of the “women’s hockey team,” comparing it to someone saying “woman doctor” or “woman CEO,” as if women professionals were rare. To her, there was an “underlying tone of misogyny in that phrasing.”
Maddie also believed that her father calling the team the “most beautiful” women was a symptom of Republican men wanting women to be “beautiful, quiet, and subservient.” She also pointed out that some of the women’s hockey team were younger than the senator’s youngest daughter.
“That’s just a little odd. That a man in his late 50s is like, ‘Yeah! Look at these hot women in their early 20s.’ That’s just creepy and gross,” she said.
Her final example was a post made by Senator Block in which he attacked New York Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez after her comments about Venezuela being “below the equator.” This time around, the New Mexico senator quoted Louisiana Senator John Kennedy, saying, “I’m not saying you’re the dumbest person in the world, but you better hope the dumbest person in the world doesn’t die.”
Maddie said her father enjoyed calling women “dumb,” and he appeared to portray himself as superior to them. She found it troubling that people like her father are the ones legislating about women’s bodies and their rights, believing they are not “equal human beings.”
Maddie’s TikTok quickly went viral, garnering 165,000 likes and 2,600 comments. Users praised her for calling out her father, with one commenter writing, “Your dad deserves a daughter like you.” Another added, “See… Their daughters are watching.” A third user chimed in, “Normalize daughters roasting their powerful problematic dads.”
