In politics, the Republicans do some things very, very well. But sometimes it’s like they’re playing tee ball:
“Men do tend to talk about things on a much higher level,” [Rep. Renee] Ellmers said. “Many of my male colleagues, when they go to the House floor, you know, they’ve got some pie chart or graph behind them and they’re talking about trillions of dollars and how, you know, the debt is awful and, you know, we all agree with that.
First she’s saying that men (perhaps only Republican men) don’t know how to connect with people. Second, she’s saying people are too stupid to understand pie charts.
Ellmers then said that women mainly want more time in their lives (don’t men as well?) and the first example she gave was that women wanted “more time in the morning to get ready.”
As for connecting to women specifically, Ellmers drove it home with a line that, had there been liberals in the audience, would have made the news.
“We need our male colleagues to understand that if you can bring it down to a woman’s level and what everything that she is balancing in her life — that’s the way to go,” Ellmers said.
This is another in a long list of rapey, probey, anti-women gifts that GOP members keep wrapping for the Democrats. And Rep. Ellmers is one of the leadership’s favorite token white women that they like to use to make it look like they’re less penile than they really are.
I think the GOP should just go ahead and adopt Friedrich Nietzsche as their mascot and pet-philosopher. Here are a couple of Friedrich’s talking points:
144. When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is generally something wrong with her sexual nature. Barrenness itself conduces to a certain virility of taste; man, indeed, if I may say so, is “the barren animal.”
145. Comparing man and woman generally, one may say that woman would not have the genius for adornment, if she had not the instinct for the SECONDARY role.
Straight outta 1886. For the GOP, this seems about right.
