Tucker Carlson Laments The End of The Patriarchy: ‘Women Are Winning. Men Are Failing.’

With each passing week that I watch Tucker Carlson‘s Men in America segment, I wonder more and more what sad and furious planet he descended from to convince his aggrieved audience that they’ve been lied to and put down by The Man, who is definitely A Woman. (And also probably black and gay.)

Tonight, Tucker asserted that men are failing because mean ladies think that feminism means bringing boys down.

“‘The patriarchy is thriving,’ [our leaders] tell us. ‘Men are in charge and they succeed precisely to the extent they thwart the progress of women,” he said. “Society is a zero-sum equation in which a man’s gain is a woman’s loss. This is wrong and we must rectify it.’ That’s the message. It also happens to be the core assumption of second wave feminism which became popular 40 years ago… None of those assumptions are true today. America has changed completely. The patriarchy is gone. Women are winning. Men are failing.”

First of all: No, Tucker. Second-wave feminism was about questioning women’s place in the home, not bringing down men, if we can even say it was about one single thing to begin with. Second of all, saying the patriarchy is gone as a straight white guy is like that time Hillary Clinton dabbed: You should really leave that kind of thing to somebody else.

Tucker went on to show a bunch of statistics that prove women are getting more higher education degrees than men – particularly minority women relative to minority men – and points to it as evidence that the gender gap in education has closed.

Do I really need to explain that even though women are getting more degrees, it doesn’t indicate that discrimination in education doesn’t exist in droves? Or that women need to consistently fight to be taken seriously, let alone listened to, in their classes – particularly women in STEM? Okay, apparently I do. Hey, Tucker! Higher rates of graduation do not equal education parity. More access is great, but it doesn’t change the treatment of women during and after they receive these degrees. That is still very much unequal — all too often in really hideous ways.

Watch above, via Fox News. Bring a stress ball.

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