Gentlemen, the 1950s called and they’d like their chauvinistic worldview back
The dissolution of society around us. The disintegration of marriage. Something going terribly wrong in American society. Minority communities torn apart. American society torn apart. A catastrophic issue. The loss of a generation. The undermining of our social order.
What is it that’s causing this societal conflagration? According to Fox News commentators Lou Dobbs, Juan Williams, Erick Erickson, and Doug Schoen, it’s the fact that, in 40% of American households with children, women are the primary wage earner. Who knew that women earning more than men would have such a corrosive impact on the very fabric of our American society?
Nobody except these sexist swine.
Here are some of the choicest quotes from their appearance on Dobbs’ Fox program:
Juan Williams:
What we’re seeing with four out of 10 families, now the woman is the primary breadwinner. You’re seeing the disintegration of marriage, you’re seeing men who were hard hit by the economic recession in ways that women weren’t. But you’re seeing, I think, systemically, larger than the political stories that we follow every day, something going terribly wrong in American society, and it’s hurting our children, and it’s going to have impact for generations to come.
Erick Erickson:
I am so used to liberals telling conservatives that they are anti-science. But I mean this is — liberals who defend this and say it’s not a bad thing are very anti-science. When you look at biology, look at the natural world, the roles of a male and female in society; in other animals the male typically is the dominant role, the female is not antithesis or is not competing; it’s a complementary role
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Doug Schoen:
This is a catastrophic issue and, sadly, no one on the right, left or center is dealing with the breakdown of family structure. We’re losing a generation. Bottom line: it could undermine our social order.
Fox’s Megyn Kelly was having none of it and the next day tore into Dobbs and Erickson for their absurd and sexist statements, asking Erickson, “What makes you dominant and me submissive and who died and made you scientist-in-chief?”:
At about the 5:40 mark, Dobbs interrupts Kelly, condescendingly saying, “Excuse me, oh dominant one.”
ExCUSE me???!
I don’t have much use for Megyn Kelly in general but she was on fire in this interview, appropriately calling BS on the chauvinistic and completely erroneous conclusions drawn by Erickson and Dobbs.
These vile men are still living in pre-1960s America where women were expected to stay home and raise the kids, cook the meals and be subservient to men. Erickson, in particular, despite his backpedaling in a post at Redstate.com the next morning, is a Neanderthal in his thinking. In that post, he says the only people upset at his remarks are “feminist and emo lefties [with] their panties in a wad” and bizarrely refers to “lazy beta-male MSNBC producers”, something that the Maddow Blog’s Steve Benen had fun with.
The fact that Erickson thinks that science can explain why women shouldn’t make more money than men tells you everything you need to know about him. The fact the Juan Williams, a man with a history of sexually harassing female coworkers, agrees with him must make NPR must wish they could erase him from their history.
As much as the rest of us have evolved, it’s important to realize that, when it comes to sexism and racism, there is an entire segment of our country that has NOT evolved. And Fox News gives them a voice every single day.
