Trying to Understand the Big Conservative-Influencer Fight
People say that X is a dead app where nothing happens anymore, but that’s just not true. While one side of the site has spent the last 72 hours discussing Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros (boring, who cares), there is another corner where a bunch of conservative Christian female influencers are calling each other some of the nastiest names I’ve ever seen because one of them got proposed to with a small diamond (compelling, kind of scary). If that sounds intriguing, feel free to keep reading as I attempt to untangle this cursed knot of trad wives and internalized misogyny.
Who are these women?
There are four names you need to remember to understand this story, which is a two-on-two battle where no one is winning. First, there’s Sarah Stock, a commentator for the far-right media outlet Rift TV, where she makes YouTube videos with titles like “Liking Your Ethnicity Is Racist (If You’re White)” and “Yes, Women CAN and SHOULD Stay Home!” Stock cuts right to the chase in her Instagram bio, in which she identifies herself as a “Christian Nationalist.”
On Stock’s side of this particular beef is Morgan Ariel, who describes herself as a “Lioness for Jesus Christ” and a fashion designer in her X bio.
The main player on the other side of the feud is Emily Wilson, who goes by emilysavesamerica on social media (no relation to Pod Save America). Wilson went viral last year for her opinion that abortion should be a “state by state” issue. “If everyone in a state wants something, let them have it,” she said. When asked if this meant that she would be okay with slavery coming back if everyone in Alabama wanted it, she said, “Sure. If everyone in the state wants it, go ahead. What do I give a shit?” If it isn’t obvious, everyone involved in this is bad.
Wilson was backed up by H. Pearl Davis, a popular anti-feminist influencer who often goes viral for talking about how amazing men are and how the modern woman is decimating the American family. (Davis is not married and has no children.)
And why are they fighting?
In news that probably does not come as a surprise, this beef boils down to these women’s relationships with men. On Sunday, Stock posted a photo of her engagement ring to X with the caption “I won.” The ring in question has a small diamond, but it’s nothing to shake a stick at — it’s certainly bigger than the one on The Summer I Turned Pretty.
I won pic.twitter.com/PPIlmf1Nrk
— Sarah Stock ✟ (@sarahcstock) August 4, 2025
Davis, who hates when women use their relationships for clout, posted a screenshot of Stock’s post with a snide caption about using marriage to build a brand. I guess that is gauche, but constantly throwing your own gender under the bus is … fine?
Hottest right wing E-girl taken off the market
— H. Pearl Davis (@pearlythingz) August 4, 2025
(Conservative women will always use their marriage and family to build their brand) https://t.co/6vdaNc8GUf
On Tuesday, Wilson jumped into the fray, replying to Davis’s post to make fun of the size of Stock’s ring.
The ring size ????
— emilysavesamerica (@emilysavesusa) August 5, 2025
Does it get worse?
Prompted by Wilson’s comment about the ring size, Ariel hopped in to start slut-shaming Wilson. It’s unclear if she has a relationship with Stock or if she was just excited by the opportunity to say horrible things to Wilson. Both women then went back and forth with unflattering claims about each other’s sex lives before Ariel went nuclear. She shared a tweet that is so wild and filled with unsubstantiated claims about Wilson that it can’t be quoted here. To sum it up, though, it included a lot of gossip and rumors about Wilson to bolster her claim that Wilson is a “gold digging hoe.” On the sidelines of all this, Davis and Ariel were trading shockingly racist, sexist, and homophobic barbs.
Did they circle back to fighting about ring size?
Somehow, yes. The next day, Wilson got back online and started subtweeting about Stock’s ring. “It’s gonna be hard to be a trad wife when your man can’t even afford a ring,” she wrote. “How do you guys expect to have a house, land, multiple kids. BFFR. I hope yall enjoy working. Sorry I’m MIA I’m in the hamptons.”
Wilson followed that up by posting a screenshot of an engagement ring on Etsy that looked similar to Stock’s and only cost about $70. “I’m so jealous,” she wrote sarcastically.
I’m so jealous pic.twitter.com/Z9a6wAn8Zd
— emilysavesamerica (@emilysavesusa) August 6, 2025
In a since-deleted comment, Stock replied to Wilson’s tweet about being a trad wife with yet more slut-shaming. “It’s gonna be hard to be a trad wife when you are pushing 30 with a triple digit body count thinking you deserve a millionaire,” Stock wrote.
Wilson then took things over to Instagram, where she shared her own tweet on her Story and wrote, “Conservative men need to stop being broke and gaslighting women like we don’t deserve diamonds and rings … So you want me to give up my job my career my financial independence push multiple babies out of my body, cook, clean, be loyal and a loving feminine wife forever, and y’all can’t even afford nice rings for us. GTFO just admit yall literally don’t like women.”
At this point, I think the right feminist could probably get through to Wilson with the audiobook of The Awakening.
So, who won?
I think all of these women got what they wanted out of this, which is attention. Despite some of the truly despicable things said, no one really lost; if there are losers, it’s those of us who did not know who these women were before today. Let this serve as a reminder to us all to log off of X, go outside, and talk to people who have no idea what the “Christian conservative-influencer engagement-ring drama” is.
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