GOP Senate Candidate Says Feminists Have ‘Snake-Filled Heads,' Wants to Come Home to a Cooked Dinner Every Night
In the current political climate, you'd think a U.S. Senate candidate would know not to come after women's rights. However, it appears Missouri's Republican Senate candidate Courtland Sykes either didn't get the memo or really, really doesn't want to win his race.
After a number of his would-be constituents asked Sykes for his position on women's rights, the candidate posted a diatribe on Facebook letting everyone know he hates women's rights and feminist beliefs, and wants a "home-cooked dinner" waiting for him every night.
"In light of recent questions regarding my views on Women's Rights, attached is my full statement," Sykes posted on his verified Facebook page. "Chanel, my fiancee, has given me orders to favor them, so I’d better."
Everything, predictably, goes downhill from this opening line.
"But Chanel knows that my obedience comes with a small price that she loves to pay anyway: I want to come home to a home-cooked dinner at six every night, one that she fixes and one that I expect one day to have daughters learn to fix after they become traditional homemakers and family wives—think Norman Rockwell here and Gloria Steinem be damned," he said.
Sykes then goes on to make the dubious claim that he "supports women’s rights," just not that kind that has "oppressed natural womanhood for five long decades." You know, the kind that has career ambitions, dreams, aspirations, and just wants to be paid the same as a man for doing the same job. Or as Sykes thinks of it, "the kind of wrongheaded 'women’s rights’ that allows mean-spirited radical feminists to use political correctness and their little broom label of 'sexist' to define womanhood and women’s rights for me, for my family, for you and your family or for my country and the world." He then puts the nail in his own political coffin by adding, "But good news: They’re finished. Ask Hillary."
The open letter has racked up thousands of comments, including more than a few begging Chanel to get out while she still can.
"Chanel, run! It’s not too late to get away from that pig! Your daughters’ futures depend on the example you set for them. He can learn to cook his own damn dinner," one commenter wrote. "This has got to be a joke. Either way, you are either a disgusting excuse for a human being or are contaminating public discourse with degenerate views," another added.
Since the posting Sykes has done little to calm people's nerves about a candidate so clearly against modern-day feminist beliefs. In fact, he's more than doubled down on them, posting a meme about feminism and attacking CNN commentator Sally Kohn for tweeting about the statement.
"Typical CNN. Chanel and I chose to support traditional family values and celebrate women's own intelligence and success—to determine what womanhood means for themselves," he tweeted. "We'd be happy to talk about it with you, Sally, but we're not holding our breath."
Yeah, we wouldn't hold our breath if we were you either, Sykes. It's crucial to also note that Sykes, at best, has a snowball's chance in hell of winning, and as CBS noted, doesn't even have the support of President Donald Trump.
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