Christy Edwards Lawton, 41, is a Los Angeles native who now splits her time between Idaho and Wyoming, where her second husband, a conservative banker, is based
There are wild turkeys running through the backyard as Christy Edwards Lawton shows off her beautiful home in Eagle, Idaho, walking past pictures of herself with Donald Trump and Dick Cheney and statement books on end tables by Nancy Reagan about entertaining in the White House. She’s stunning, this brunette mother-of-two, dressed in an off-the-shoulder sweater, leather pants and Louboutins, her three pure-bred Dachshunds excitedly following her every move. She’s married to a successful banker, a title-winning high school quarterback from Wyoming who’s as conservative as they come.
And she’s trying to set up similar matches with a new dating app called Righter. Liberals need not apply; the app is aimed at ‘men who are men’ and women who are ‘feminine, not feminist.’ Christy says they have 20,000 global users already after a soft launch in December, all of them conservatives looking for like-minded partners. But Christy is adamant that conservatism doesn’t extend to the bedroom; Righter isn’t a hook-up app, she says, but she’s certain that conservatives have the best sex. A lot of people might tie conservatism to religion and abstinence, but that’s not the ethos to which Christy subscribes. She’s never ‘been intimate’ with a ‘liberal,’ and she doesn’t want to – but if people want great orgasms and intimacy, she thinks Righter is the way to go.
The app, she believes, is the perfect avenue for matching conservatives like herself with ideal romantic partners. She thinks romance has been lost in the world of modern dating, and Righter is trying to bring it back. Men have to pay on the first date. They should pay for all the dates, actually, holding the door and bringing back old-school chivalry. There’s a rationale behind this; men might throw on a shirt or get a haircut for a date, she says, but women typically spend more than $100 on hair styling, manicures, new outfits and other beautification regimes.
At 41, Christy is on her second marriage, and is an avid Republican fundraiser who keeps a low profile in her neighborhood outside Boise but has become a poster person for conservative dating following the launch of Righter, which employs two other women and three men. The Los Angeles native – whose mother was adopted from Guatemala – loves Donald Trump and Melania, but she insists the app isn’t targeted only at the MAGA crowd; she wants a wider pool of conservatives to find each other and promote a ‘salt-of-the-earth’ lifestyle.
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Christy says she came up with the idea for conservative dating app Righter after meeting a Republican model in Manhattan who said she had trouble finding men to go out with
Christy and her children, 20-year-old Drew and 16-year-old Lauren, are avid supporters of President Donald Trump; she has worked to hold fundraisers for him
Righter had a soft launch last month, and Christy says the app has already attracted nearly 20,000 users globally; it's focused on promoting traditional gender roles. She says: ‘Men are men; there’s not 21 genders on Righter. There’s two genders on Righter'
‘So the principle of the app was always conservative principles,’ she tells Daily Mail TV, sitting in a wood-decorated Boise restaurant that’s been a favorite haunt of locals for nearly two decades. ‘What was just interesting, after Donald Trump got elected, was the toxic environment that we were in.’
Christy had run an elite matchmaking service called StreetFox previously, but Righter offered her a larger platform as she aimed to create a safe space for dating conservatives. Before that, she worked in banking.
‘I had been let go [from] a bank – wrongfully terminated,’ she tells DMTV, adding that she sued for sexual harassment and got ‘the largest female settlement in the state of Idaho.’
She adds: ‘I am not the MeToo movement; I’m the antithesis of the MeToo movement. But to be so horrifically fired in the way I was, it was awful. I’m sealed; I’m not allowed to speak about the details.’
Righter has given her a new passion and purpose, as she hones the conservative app whose users sign up filling in their age, height and not much else. A quick search of Righters on the app in NYC shows a range of men working in everything from banking to the fire department and cops to the military. Many have generic user names, like other apps, while others pose with guns or in fatigues in their profile photos with user names that play on phrases like ‘Lock her up.’ It’s free to sign up, but upgrades cost more than $10 a month.
Christy laments the state of dating and casual sex in the modern era, saying: ‘I think it started with TV; I think porno being so accessible on your phone, that definitely helped. I think that the apps, the dating apps, Tinder, definitely escalated it and made it so easy. But again, I have to say here, there is a responsibility on women: Close your legs, please. Here’s the issue: If men can get it that easily, and if you’re repeatedly giving it to them that easily, it’s supply and demand. Guys, this is economics 101. Sexonomics’
Righters include Christy’s 20-year-old son, Drew – and, in the future, she hopes, her daughter Lauren, who’s about to turn 17, one year younger than the sign-up user age. Drew is a student at the same conservative Christian school his mother attended, Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, in Christy’s native California; her daughter lives five miles away with her father, an Idahoan Christy married at 19 and divorced at 26.
‘Not on any level would I raise my daughter as a feminist,’ says Christy, who gushes about Melania Trump and Sarah Huckabee Sanders as two shining examples of great American women she respects.
‘She is literally an angel,’ she says of the First Lady. ‘I mean, she is. We are so fortunate to have her as a First Lady … she’s done every single thing possible to support her husband, one of the best presidents we have had in office.’
She huffs that Melania hasn’t featured on the cover of national magazines more, like former FLOTUS Michelle Obama: ‘This will go down in history as an embarrassment,’ she says.
‘I just think she’s phenomenal. I just think she’s absolutely breathtakingly beautiful. Who are you going to put on the cover of Vogue? She has every single freaking stylist and fashion designer, flawlessly – and she wears the Christian Louboutin heels like a boss on the lawn of the White House. Who pulls that off?’
It’s Melania’s style and elegance that she believes should feature more in modern dating – women making an effort, men making the pursuit and traditional gender roles reinforced.
‘Men are men; there’s not 21 genders on Righter,’ she says.
‘There’s two genders on Righter, and I’m not anti-gay, not at all,’ she adds, though there’s currently no matching option for gay conservative dating on the new app, and no immediate plans to create one. She points out that one launch for Righter was hosted in New York by a married lesbian couple – with a daughter.
She got the idea for Righter after meeting a young model at a conservative fundraiser in New York who actually reminded her of Melania, she says.
Christy poses with former Vice President Dick Cheney, who she says is a friend of her second husband; the picture is displayed prominently in her living room in Eagle, Idaho
Evidence of Christy's conservatism and Republicanism is scattered throughout her home, including books by Nancy Reagan and Trump stickers on her refrigerator
Christy, who first married at 19 and divorced at 26, lives with her three beloved dachshunds five miles away from her first husband and teenage daughter, while her son is currently studying at Point Loma Nazarene College in San Diego, which is her alma mater
Christy, pictured with her son and daughter, who soon turns 17, says: 'Not on any level would I raise my daughter as a feminist'
Christy's five-bedroom home the plush suburb of Eagle, Idaho - a short drive from Boise - is valued by Zillow at more than $800,000
‘I walked in, and I am very attracted to beautiful women – who you don’t see a lot of them,’ she says. ‘There’s not a lot of striking, beautiful women, especially nowadays – and when I say that, I mean women that look like Melania.
‘I feel like women don’t get dressed up anymore, and I walked in, and there’s this woman, girl, I’m going to say she was 21, 22.’
She continues: ‘She was in this white outfit that would take your breath away – and I thought, “She’s got to be a model.”’
She was right; the two struck up a conversation, during which the younger woman expressed dissatisfaction with her dating life.
‘She’s like, “They either want me for arm candy or they want to bed me,”’ Christy says. ‘So she goes, that’s it – and she kind of proceeds to tell me that she’s a conservative and a Republican but she has to be kind of hidden because of her profession, and it’s very, very difficult for her. I was so stunned by this.
‘She’s nice; she’s very nice. She’s intelligent, she has her degree. I’m like, this girl can’t date? Something’s wrong. This is ridiculous. And I’m sitting here thinking through my Rolodex of the men I know that I could easily put in front of her …. So I’m like, “How many friends do you have that are kind of like you?” She’s like, “Quite a few.”
So Christy came up with Righter, assembling a team, working to make it easily downloadable for all smart phones. Since it only launched last month, she says data about users and successful matches are obviously not yet available – but she has plenty of advice for the people signing up.
‘Men celebrate their masculinity, and we do encourage them to not be pen pals on Righter – to set the date, pursue the female, pick up the tab as a gentleman, offer your generosity,’ she says.
‘Everyone jumps on me all over about this: wearing a dress on the first date. A lot of women don’t like to wear a dress; it’s not the point. The feedback we’ve gotten from most men in all of our research is men, when we ask them the question, what do you visualize your date wearing on the first date … we ask them to close their eyes and visualize this is what your lady is wearing on her first date. “Oh, a dress.”’
Clayton Chaney, 43, was set up with his wife by Christy before she started Righter; she previously worked as an elite matchmaker but introduced Clayton to his now-spouse after going on a date with him herself, saying she considered him 'a 10' but there was 'no spark or fireworks'
She adds: ‘I think women should celebrate their femininity and embrace it … How many people have we talked to where they’re having these one-night stands on Tinder? Okay, then what? Where do you go from there? I don’t understand what happened to the dance of the first date. What happened to sitting across, having live communication, getting to know someone, flirting a little bit, enjoying the touching of a hand, enjoying the first kiss?
‘My daughter asked me the other day, “Do men look at oral sex differently than girls do, or is that the same as sex?” …. My daughter’s never even had her first kiss. At the high school, they are all having oral sex – and I said, “Oh, honey, yes [men] do.”’
She tells DMTV: ‘Trust me – this is a major issue in our country right now. A lot of men actually have different lovers for oral sex than they actually have with their actual partners, and it’s a question we have to have … And it’s something that doesn’t make females feel good.’
She says that, from ‘research’ she’s done at universities and among young people, men expect sexual reciprocation if they pay for a date. She doesn’t think that’s the way it should be, and that’s certainly not how she’s raised her son, who is studying international business while modeling part-time. Christy says he’s horrified by the behavior of women his age.
‘Drew is very picky,’ she says. ‘He’s struggling; the girls are not behaving like ladies …. He’s like, they burp in front of him. For Drew, that grosses him out. He’s like, that’s disgusting.
‘You would be shocked at girl behavior I saw in their high school. He was passionate one night with one girl; they were I guess making out, and he was enjoying it; I guess she was very attractive. And I guess she started talking about sexual partners she had … this was in college, his freshman year. And she starts talking about sexual partners she had in high school, and Drew literally like stops. He’s like, are you freaking kidding me?”’
‘Liberal’ representations of dating and sex in television in movies are partly to blame for the state of modern romance, she says, and the problem was accelerated by the proliferation of dating apps. But it’s also down to personal responsibility, she claims.
‘I think it started with TV; I think porno being so accessible on your phone, that definitely helped,’ she says. ‘I think that the apps, the dating apps, tinder, definitely escalated it and made it so easy. But again, I have to say here, there is a responsibility on women: Close your legs, please. Here’s the issue: If men can get it that easily, and if you’re repeatedly giving it to them that easily, it’s supply and demand.
‘Guys, this is economics 101. Sexonomics.’
She says: ‘I’m so tired of all these women who go from bed to bed to bed and man to man to man. It’s like, what are you doing?’
As she speaks in the restaurant, nibbling on soup and a large glass of water, a male friend of hers nods earnestly in agreement. She actually met architect Clayton Chaney, 43, in Boise, where she spends 90 percent of her time, and the two of them went on a date that went well but had no ‘spark’ or ‘fireworks.’
So she set him up with a friend in a move that ended with one of 20 marriages Christy says she’s got under her belt. He says he was finding it hard to meet ‘quality gals’ but eventually hit it off with Christy’s friend Jen; the couple got married and have two small children.
‘I had just gone out with her, and she was like, “I’m looking for a sweater guy.” That’s what she called it,’ says Christy. ‘Like a J. Crew guy. And I’m thinking, “Oh my gosh, you two need to meet.”’
That altruistic dating philosophy is something she wants to bring to Righter, implementing a user rating feature that will allow men and women to report on their experiences.
Christy is a huge fan of First Lady Melania Trump, saying: ‘She is literally an angel. I mean, she is. We are so fortunate to have her as a First Lady … she’s done every single thing possible to support her husband, one of the best presidents we have had in office’
Christy, whose kitchen fridge features Trump stickers and magnets as well as an inauguration ticket, says she was discouraged after the election by the 'toxic environment' in America
Christy, sipping on a glass of water, tells DMTV that, on Righter, ‘Men celebrate their masculinity, and we do encourage them to not be pen pals on Righter – to set the date, pursue the female, pick up the tab as a gentleman, offer your generosity'
Christy says of her son: ‘Drew is very picky. He’s struggling; the girls are not behaving like ladies …. He’s like, they burp in front of him. For Drew, that grosses him out. He’s like, that’s disgusting.' She adds: 'You would be shocked at girl behavior'
Christy's son gave her an edited version of the family photo with Trump that cropped her out, proudly showing off her two children alone with the President
‘But I’m gonna be a bitch about it – meaning, this is not where you get to slam somebody,’ Christy says. ‘My coder and I were very careful how we did this. This is like, if you’re out of town, you’re in New York maybe one night and you get a date, you’re like, you know this is probably not going to work out, you’re not going to see that person again, but let’s say the date was great – just a good gentleman, he treated you well, looked good, but … he’s just not the one.
‘You could still leave a great rating. You would recommend him to somebody else on Righter. This is supposed to be a Republican, conservative, classy app. Treat it that way, and if you don’t, you’re going to get kicked off.’
Clayton tries to share his own definition of conservatism, referring to ‘how I was raised’ growing up in California.
‘I wouldn’t call myself very political, or I don’t shout about it,’ he says. ‘I don’t usually like talking about that or religion, but just kind of how I was raised and just how I feel.’
He adds: ‘If you had a list of everything Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative, and I had to kind of weed through – you know, financial security and moral values, strong family values, smaller government. Those are kind of the main ones for me.’
He’s the type of man Christy hopes will use Righter: a conservative of ‘marriage material’ who can be any age (as long as they’re over 18.) The app also offers a medical service, with a surgeon in its employ to advise users, especially those who are newly back in the dating game, Christy says - yet again touching upon the misconception that conservatism by no means is synonymous with abstinence.
‘Men change, and they function differently when they hit certain ages,’ says Christy. ‘It doesn’t necessarily mean performance; it’s a confidence level. If they’ve just gotten out of a relationship or a long-term relationship, or they’ve gone through a divorce, God forbid, what are the chances that they have been having a lot of sex with their relationship or their spouse?
‘And so it’s helpful for them to go to maybe a professional to even just get clarification on what’s going on inside of them, even mentally, through a doctor who is phenomenal.’
She adds: ‘It blows my mind: Where in the world does anybody think that conservatives don’t have sex? In fact, the studies show conservatives have better sex than liberals. We have more meaningful sex. We have better orgasms, and these are studies I can actually back up and show you. These are not studies done by conservatives.’
She's referring to a 2016 YouGov survey of more than 19,000 people in France, Germany, Sweden and Denmark; it found that, in the UK, for example, 73 percent of people who consider themselves 'very right-wing' said they were very satisfied with their sex lives, as opposed to 68 percent of 'very left wing' or 66 percent of 'left-wing' people. A more recent unscientific survey by a condom company found similar results.
That being said, however, she insists Righter isn’t a hook-up app, which are a dime a dozen nowadays, it seems.
‘It blows my mind that it’s supposed to be a convenience – the whole ideology and philosophy on Tinder is absolutely bonkers,’ she says. ‘There’s no form of courtship, a date, at all.’
She adds of Righter: ‘It’s been going beautifully; we’ve actually had people that are matching very well, and it hasn’t been [just] sex.
‘Bottom line: Typically conservative men and women, that’s just not the behaviour. They actually get to know each other and go on dates. Here’s the situation: If they do go on a date, and they do want to engage in intimacy, that’s between them. But that is just not how Conservatives behave.
‘Like Clayton said, beautifully, we weren’t raised that way.’
The Righter Stuff: MorningCovfefe and CptAmerica - the men and women looking for love with fellow conservatives
They have screen names like 'BuildThatWall' and 'MAGAcutie94,' and they are looking for alpha males, are 'sick of liberals,' and love 'my country, Trump, my guns' - in that order. Meet a small selection of the men and women of the new conservative app Righter.
The 'storyteller' who wants to talk if you know Jordan Peterson or Matthew Barney, and says that she is a conservative because: ‘For the same reason I am an artist: Because I believe in truth and empowerment above all else. Self-efficacy is key... Capitalism saves lives. Pro-life.’
51 year old law enforcement official: 'Love my country, Trump, my guns and really funny and fun. No filter. Liberals are traitors and should be hung for treason.'
'Cpt America', 34, U.S. Vet and diplomatic security: ' Honest, thoughtful, and loyal. Looking for my best friend, my lover, my companion, my love. Love to laugh and have fun.'
'Comodoc' is a 39-year-old cardiologist in the New York City area. ‘Sick of liberals and it’s hard to date in NYC cuz it’s filled with a bunch of liberals’.
'Morning covfefe', 23: 'Where are my NYC (Alpha) Males???’
BuildThatWall, 25, has a screen name that perhaps says it all.
Costumer, 30, says: ‘I’m stuck in a leftists echo chamber where postmodernism is reality. SAVE ME! I would just like to have an open conversation with someone…’
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Christy Edwards Lawton, 41, is a Los Angeles native who now splits her time between Idaho and Wyoming, where her second husband, a conservative banker, is based
There are wild turkeys running through the backyard as Christy Edwards Lawton shows off her beautiful home in Eagle, Idaho,...
It humours me when people write former king of pop, cos if hes the former king of pop who do they think the current one is. Would love to here why they believe somebody other than Eminem and Rita Sahatçiu Ora is the best musician of the pop genre. In fact if they have half the achievements i would be suprised. 3 reasons why he will produce amazing shows. Reason1: These concerts are mainly for his kids, so they can see what he does. 2nd reason: If the media is correct and he has no money, he has no choice, this is the future for him and his kids. 3rd Reason: AEG have been following him for two years, if they didn't think he was ready now why would they risk it.
Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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