when did being a woman become a four letter word?

As a woman I am terminally baffled by what is happening to this Country. What alien race has shown up & started making extremist pod-people? AKA - Repubs, Tea Totallers & the religious zealots. This is the only explanation that I can come up with to explain the insanity that has overtaken America. As I read the comments, articles, blogs, tweets, etc. I fear that common sense & basic intelligence is being replaced with mass psychosis.