A Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Missouri has ignited a social media firestorm with a Facebook post in which he calls feminists “she devils” and expounds on how he wants his wife to cook his dinner.
Courtland Sykes, who campaigned on behalf of Senate candidate Roy Moore in Alabama last month, posted to Facebook Tuesday the transcript of a September interview during which he was asked about women’s rights.
Sykes, a Navy veteran and political newcomer, said he rejects “radical feminism’s crazed definition of modern womanhood” and that he wants daughters who will be homemakers rather than “career obsessed banshees” or “nailbiting manophobic feminist she devils.”
He is seeking the GOP nomination to take on incumbent Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill in the November election. McCaskill, a former Jackson County prosecutor, is one of 22 women serving in the U.S. Senate.
Sykes’ comments have received a flood of criticism in the days since he posted to Facebook. CNN commentator Sally Kohn posted her shock to Twitter Thursday.
“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,” Kohn said.
In the transcript, Sykes claims that feminism has “oppressed natural womanhood” and comments on how his fiancée knows that he expects her to make dinner when they marry.
“I want to come home to a home-cooked dinner at six every night, one that she fixes and one that I expect my daughters to learn to fix after they become traditional homemakers and family wives,” Sykes said.
He goes onto say that feminists have redefined womanhood to “suit their own nasty, snake-filled heads” before launching into a criticism of 2016 Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
“Modern women can BE anything they want, including traditional women — as millions are fast becoming. Millennial women voters despised Hillary and cost her the election (and they weren’t Russians!). I wonder why they despise her? One reason is they look at her personal life’s wreckage and didn’t want to become like her,” he said.
Clinton outperformed Trump with all voters between the ages of 18 to 44 by double digits, according to exit polls that showed her at 53 percent with voters in that age range, compared to Trump’s 39 percent.
She also outperformed Trump with women of all age groups, 54 percent to 41 percent.
The other Republican Senate campaigns were perplexed by Sykes’ comments.
“Bless his heart,” said Kelli Ford, the spokeswoman for Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley, the GOP frontrunner to take on McCaskill.
Jeffrey Carson, the spokesman for Austin Petersen, responded to Sykes’ post with a quote that is often attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte: “Never interfere with an enemy while he's in the process of destroying himself.”
#1: no gnu taxes To: All (#0)
no gnu taxes posted on 2018-01-26 12:47:55 Reply Private Reply
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#4: Tooconservative To: no gnu taxes (#0)
Christian Science Monitor: Why Claire McCaskill wants Todd Akin to stay in Missouri race
Washington — As long as Rep. Todd Akin stays in the Missouri Senate race, Sen. Claire McCaskill might be the most fortunate Democrat running this cycle.
She appeared headed for defeat in November in a state that has been trending Republican. Her steadfast support for President Obama, plus stories about her private plane – a failure to pay taxes on it and its inappropriate use for Senate business – handed her an uphill fight.
Now Senator McCaskill’s campaign has new life. Donations from around the country are flooding into her campaign coffers, especially from women voters outraged by Congressman Akin’s comment Sunday that a woman’s body can prevent pregnancy in a case of “legitimate rape.”
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We need to hang this bitch out to dry in 2018. NO MORE CLAIRE!
Tooconservative posted on 2018-01-26 13:15:28 Reply Private Reply
#5: Jameson To: Tooconservative (#4)
Yeah, Courtland Sykes is just the "man" for the job......LOL!
Advantage Democrats
Jameson posted on 2018-01-26 13:25:30 Reply Private Reply
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no gnu taxes posted on 2018-01-26 13:27:45 Reply Private Reply
#7: Tooconservative To: Jameson (#5)
If he works at it, he could probably get that coveted Roy Moore endorsement.
Sadly, that's close to how McCaskill funded and then beat her last GOP opponent.
Tooconservative posted on 2018-01-26 13:33:44 Reply Private Reply
#8: Jameson To: no gnu taxes (#6)
Right, perhaps Akin will jump back in........
Jameson posted on 2018-01-26 13:37:30 Reply Private Reply
#9: Jameson To: Tooconservative (#7)
moore might require a hefty donation to his legal defense fund to give such an endorsement...
Jameson posted on 2018-01-26 13:47:41 Reply Private Reply
#10: no gnu taxes To: misterwhite (#3)
I wouldn't exactly call it today since that movie is about 23 years old.
no gnu taxes posted on 2018-01-26 14:04:24 Reply Private Reply
#11: misterwhite To: no gnu taxes (#10)
Hmmm. Time flies.
misterwhite posted on 2018-01-26 14:21:51 Reply Private Reply
#12: rlk To: no gnu taxes (#0)
Courtland Sykes for president.
Women are pursuing a myth in demanding ostensative careers.rlk posted on 2018-01-26 17:00:56 Reply Private Reply
#13: misterwhite To: rlk (#12)
Ostensive? Ostentatious? Offensive? Obstreperous?
misterwhite posted on 2018-01-27 10:01:36 Reply Private Reply
#14: rlk To: misterwhite (#13)
They are loud, obnoxious, and demanding. Most of them are educationally unprepared. They are shallow and expect to find success on the basis of impressive superficiality and waving an MBA around while complaining about a glass ceiling.
A good example is that goof who ran for the senate and the presidency on the basis of being CEO of HP. She got the CEO office briefly, fired 30,000 necessary people, announced an increase in profits, and ran the company into the ground. She had to be fired after a short time. She acts as if she still were a successful HP CEO. That's all she talks about. She was a destructive dud.
rlk posted on 2018-01-28 00:42:29 Reply Private Reply
#15: misterwhite To: rlk (#14)
Just on the basis of "being". We're to ignore the fact that she was a lousy CEO.
We have a Democrat candidate running in Illinois who is bragging that he voted to expand the school lunch program because "we all know a well-fed child does better in school". Yet test scores have gotten worse in Chicago. Does that mean we should discontinue the school lunch program because it is having zero effect on grades?
misterwhite posted on 2018-01-28 10:44:56 Reply Private Reply
#16: sneakypete To: no gnu taxes (#0)
Yet Trump won.
Which tells you this is a political hit piece by the DNC. NOBODY believes that crap that isn't paid to believe it.
Or at least no one with an actual 5th grade education,which exempts a huge chuck on the Dim voter base.
sneakypete posted on 2018-01-28 10:58:30 Reply Private Reply