Twitter Wrecks a GOP Senate Hopeful From Missouri Who Called Modern Women ‘Career-Obsessed Banshees’
Here’s a guy running for the U.S. Senate who thinks women without families are at risk of turning into “nail-biting, manphobic, hell-bent feminist she-devils.”
And clearly, he thinks he can win. Let that sink in for a moment.
Courtland Sykes, a Republican from Missouri who is challenging Democrat Claire McCaskill for her Senate seat, says he “support[s] women’s rights, but not the kind that has oppressed natural womanhood for five long decades.”
CNN commentator Sally Kohn posted the full text of his remarks on the subject on Twitter:
This is an actual statement.
From a Republican Senate candidate.
In 2017.
Not a gaffe.
A deliberate, typed out, posted statement.
Wow, Courtland Sykes. Just wow. pic.twitter.com/5UoxM6CKyT— Sally Kohn (@sallykohn) January 25, 2018
Soon, many others followed suit, who were equally disgusted by Sykes’ words:
Holy shit. This guy is really afraid of women. Like petrified. https://t.co/Bz518th1Et
— #EvanRachelWould (@evanrachelwood) January 26, 2018
I hope a woman takes his seat and mops the floor with him!
— Patricia Arquette (@PattyArquette) January 25, 2018
[hand-raising emoji] Excuse me, sir, the part about “nail-biting?” Is that just a thing about being neurotic or are you particularly grossed out by it or…I’m wondering about relevance since it seems a lot more pedestrian than the snakes & the banshees & the devils & manophobia.
— Rebecca Traister (@rtraister) January 25, 2018
Is it bad that I kind of hope #CourtlandSykes‘s daughters grow up to be lesbian CEOs who only ever eat takeout in front of the TV?
— Tracy E. Gilchrist (@TracyEGilchrist) January 25, 2018
Courtland Sykes is what happens when you let Jesus take the wheel and he crashes into a tanker truck full of Axe body spray.
— Marie Connor (@thistallawkgirl) January 25, 2018
To Courtland Sykes; as a career obsessed banshee she devil feminist I calmly say, fuck you and have a nice day https://t.co/8QgLROZhyP
— Donna Bridget (@3Brigids) January 25, 2018
“Courtland Sykes” sounds like the lowest-end most depressing airport Marriott.
— Elizabeth Spiers (@espiers) January 25, 2018
This statement has everything: gender-bending word games, career obsessed banshees, Norman Rockwell, Gloria Steinem, home based enterprises, drugstore academics, she devils who shriek from the tops of a thousand tall buildings, and – of course! – Hillary. Give that man an MFA. pic.twitter.com/60R4rsyJ4J
— Dory Owen (@doryowen) January 25, 2018
Hey @SykesforSenate, I fixed it for you. pic.twitter.com/uOetkEq2x3
— Ellyn (@elle57) January 25, 2018
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