Right-wing influencer Bernadine Bluntly had three children and a growing Instagram account by the time she started thinking about leaving her marriage. Instead she pressed on, she told the New York Times. At an event in 2019, she attacked women’s suffrage. Soon she had six children in total and friends at Turning Point USA and Evie Magazine. Her YouTube channel grew to 141,000 subscribers, a career in the making — until she could no longer bear the cost. According to the Times, she left her husband and filed for a restraining order against him in 2024. Later, a Missouri court “found that she had proved allegations of domestic violence, and forbade him to come within 300 feet of her,” although he denied the allegations. Now Bluntly has a different message for women. “Extreme gender roles” are harmful, she says, and she rejects “any belief system” that “puts women or anyone in a position of fear, isolation, or total dependence.”

Bluntly, whose real name is Bernadine Barber, is not the only woman questioning the gender roles she once promoted. Amy Dangerfield, a “groypette” or follower of neo-Nazi influencer Nick Fuentes, told the Washington Post that she is “disillusioned” with the movement, which rejected her after she and her husband organized a political conference in support of the movement. The groypers decided she’d stepped out of line, challenging Fuentes and his authority; today, she gets rape threats. Lauren Southern was a far-right YouTuber but says she left the movement after a controlling marriage ended in divorce, and in 2025, she accused Andrew Tate of sexual assault in a self-published memoir. Ashley St. Clair built a following by attacking trans people and “brain rot feminism” before giving birth to one of Elon Musk’s children. After battling Musk for child support, she has soured on the right too. “There is no free thinking........

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