Quiz: Who said the following?
I think that one of the greatest mistakes that America made was to allow women the opportunity to vote. We should’ve never turned this over to women. … And these women are voting in the wrong people. They’re voting in people who are evil who agrees with them who’re gonna take us down this pathway of destruction.
And this probably was the reason that they didn’t allow women to vote when men were men. Because men in the good old days understood the nature of the woman. They were not afraid to deal with it. And they understood that, you let them take over, this is what would happen. …
Wherever women are taking over, evil reigns.
Was it:
Some dude on The Spearhead?
A regular guest on Sean Hannity’s show on Fox News?
Well, yeah, you guessed it: it’s door number three. Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, a Tea Party activist and founder of the group Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny (BOND), said all of the above, and quite a lot of other outrageously misogynistic things, in a talk this March, and which is available on YouTube. Yet Hannity, who serves on the board of Peterson’s group, had him back on his show earlier this month, for an appearance during which Peterson described “liberal Democrat women” as “whores.” Raw Story, which discovered Peterson’s unlisted video on YouTube, offers many more delightful misogyny nuggets from Peterson.
Here’s the video of Peterson’s talk. The stuff about women and voting starts at about 8:30 in. But I suggest you watch the whole thing from the start; it’s a virtual smorgasbord of misogyny, seasoned with a bunch of stuff he simply made up about Sandra Fluke’s famous congressional testimony on birth control.
It would be nice if this sort of stuff was confined to the fringes of the manosphere, but alas, it’s everywhere.
This is the sort of thing that should remain in the lunatic fringe. Why is he allowed on Fox? Why is Hannity in his organization? What are they really looking to acheive?
You know what…this shit honestly scares me…Sometiems I feel like I am overly paranoid but when I shit like this when a preacher with lots of followers is ranting and raving about womens right to vote and senators and politicans are trying to prevent people with uteri from being able to obtain contraception and or abortions..it freaking scares me…..These people want to go back to the stone age where only a certain segment of the population had rights. and they are not a fringe group, people need to keep and eye on these people from rising to power.
And another thing…I am tired about hereing how women are just so worthless and evil and how men are the greatest things since sliced bread. And how feminism has killed masculinity…..MEn and women are both people had have bad and good qualities…niether is better or worse then eachother…
Sorry for the rant…I am just really upset about shit like this becoming more and more mainstream
Serious gynophobia here.
It would be so much easier for MRAs to set up their misogynistic agenda if women couldn’t vote. Where are the moderate MRAs denouncing this kind of talk? This is why I call bullshit when I hear MRAs say they only want equality.
thats what really pisses me off on the MRAs are just poor hurt woobies that had bad relationships and were treated like shit in the system and it is ALLL feminists fault. They hate women and want to hurt them…They want women to be oppressed, and yes taking away womens right to vote is one of the ways to do that.
@Discordia: They need to be in control of something. If they can’t sort out their own lives they need to control someone else’s. It’s sad really.
i was gonna make a crack about how the decades leading up to the nineteenth amendment were such a great time in american politics, but then i remembered that this dude probably thinks they were
It’s really sad when men of color do not get why women might not want their rights decided by biological qualities we have that we cannot control that have zero to do with our worth as a person.
You want fear? I’m currently reading a sci-fi book written in 2005 that mentions off-handedly how the main character is happy living in Canada even though with his wealth he’s paying a lot more taxes than in the United States, because he has a condition that can leave him at any time in a near vegetative state and medically assisted suicide was banned by President *Pat Buchanan*.
@Sharculese, yeah, he is definitely nostalgic for the past.
@BlackBloc: I just reviewed a 2011 YA novel about a girl forced to carry her rapist’s baby to term, because President Sarah Palin. I’m getting tired of these “speculative fiction” novels being neither speculative nor fiction. D:
So according to according to misogynist fundie math, passing out free birth control somehow results in more abortions?
You know, I think trying to assign them ulterior motives underestimates them. I’ve no doubt that many news pundits are probably just pushing this shit because it makes them money, but the figures that actually spout this nonsense I think really believe their schtick. He says he doesn’t want women to be able to vote. And I believe him.
On the other hand, I’m also of the opinion that calling people like this “lunatic fringe” is unhelpful. It’s obvious they aren’t fringe, so there’s that, but also because calling them “lunatics” minimizes their words. Perfectly sane people are perfectly capable of spouting a lot of ridiculous, hurtful nonsense. To say “they’re just crazy” is to say they don’t mean their words and they’re one person in a handful of people. I’m pretty sure David’s blog at the very least demonstrates that there are plenty more where this guy came from.
Sure, everything was so great when only men could vote. There was no war, no slavery, and people certainly didn’t steal land from American Indians.
Honestly, I’m not saying everything is better because women have voting rights. We should have equal rights because we contribute to humanity every bit as much as men do.
Gasp! How dare people vote in ways that align with their beliefs!? We clearly need to roll back to the days when only land owing, white, males could vote until the rest of the riffraff learn how this “voting” thing works. /sarcasm
Women voting differently than men would like them to vote?
FEATURE, NOT A BUG.
It also implies only a crazy person could spew such nonsense, and plenty of mentally ill people are not assholes. Can we just not equate insanity with bigotry please?
Also, women tend to outnumber men so good luck with that 19th amendment thing, pretty sure no one’s going to just give it up because the men folk told them to.
Cliff wins ALL the lulz xD
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In only somewhat related news, I had a hard time convincing my hetero dude partner that there was a legitimate movement against women’s reproductive rights. Apparently he was all over Google and couldn’t find 400+ pieces of legislation that had been proposed in the last year or two, and then proceeded to compare it to the KKK trying to kick black people out of the country.
I tried to explain that the KKK wasn’t getting legislation PASSED.
(I tried tags, did they work???)
@Joanna..yes these boys are obsessed with control and power…they only want people exactly like them to have it and expect everone else to obey.
@Cliff yep thats another thing, while I don’t think men and women are REALLY THAT different…there are things that women might be more inclined to vote for then men..and thats ok! this notion that only men have brains and opionis worth a damn is infurerating
@Argenti—I am sure this goes with many many women and many men as well….while it is certianly not the lunatic fringe saying these things–I also hate that term it is abelist and dismissive…..I really hope this opinion is no where near mainstream
Is it bad that I’m refreshing the page every 2 minutes waiting for Antzy or NWOSlave to show up? I hate it when I miss the trolls 🙁
OMG, it’s the Reverend NWO! Too bad NWO is too much of a racist, because these two would totes have a meeting of the minds.
I actually love the concept of men going there own way however the posts at those forums quickly get boring.
You have constant topics about niceguys and badboys, blaming bad behavior of women on anything but the women such as it being the fault of feminism or other men, delusions about foreign women,the friendzone and conspiracy theories.
I feel very alienated and out of place in the manosphere because of all the kooks, misogynists, misandrists and conspiracy theorists.
Why do guys who want to Go Their Own Way feel this massive compulsion to tell women about it?
Because they think that our lives will be such misery without them?
Its kinda like the kid who keeps threatening to run away and only ever suceeds in getting to the front door step before coming back.