Via Think Progress and just about everyone else in the blogosphere, Alan Colmes interviewing the always asstastic John Derbyshire. In the interview, Colmes asks Derbyshire about a passage in his new book that lays out a laughable case against allowing women to vote.
DERBYSHIRE: Among the hopes that I do not realistically nurse is the hope that female suffrage will be repealed. But I’ll say this – if it were to be, I wouldn’t lose a minute’s sleep.
COLMES: We’d be a better country if women didn’t vote?
DERBYSHIRE: Probably. Don’t you think so?
COLMES: No, I do not think so whatsoever.
DERBYSHIRE: Come on Alan. Come clean here [laughing].
COLMES: We would be a better country? John Derbyshire making the statement, we would be a better country if women did not vote.
DERBYSHIRE: Yeah, probably.
I’d be shocked, but I actually had a raging misogynist neocon tell me the very same thing. Tell me again, why do women vote for conservatives, when those political allies have absolutely no respect for them? Is it a form of Stockholm syndrome?
Suffragettes, 6/2/20
“No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex.” — Susan B. Anthony
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