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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKasich To Female College Student: 'I'm Sure You Get Invited To All The Parties'
Republican presidential candidate and Ohio Gov. John Kasich reportedly told a female student at the University of Richmond Monday that he was sure she was invited "to all the parties," according to the college student newspaper.
During a town hall campaign stop at the college campus, Kasich reportedly told a female student with a laugh, "Im sorry, I dont have any Taylor Swift tickets when she "was nearly jumping out of her seat to get noticed," The Collegian reported.
At another point, he told another female student, "Im sure you get invited to all
of the parties, according to the college paper.
Several 2016 hopefuls have made offensive comments about women including Republican candidate Donald Trump who said Fox News host Megyn Kelly looked like she had blood "coming out of her wherever" when she asked about his derogatory comments about women, and Republican candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee who said before he launched his campaign that female presidential candidates should be treated with "a sense of a pedestal."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/john-kasich-female-college-student
silverweb
(16,402 posts)[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Because in the "minds" of Republican men, the woman's job is to be pretty.
Oh... and submissive to men, naturally.
nxylas
(6,440 posts)...are the Republican women who agree with them.
silverweb
(16,402 posts)[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]The beaten-down poor ones, anyway - brainwashed, with their spirits killed by religion and patriarchal rule. It's criminal.
The rich Republican women who say they agree are just mouthy hypocrites. They really do exactly as they please, and are only protecting their status and wealth.
Phyllis Schafly and Michelle Bachmann are the first examples right off the top of my head. "Women, stay home, read your bibles, and be submissive to your men - except for me, of course. Do as I say, not as I do."
They're perfectly willing to sit 5 to a couch, all with miniskirts and high heels. It's so "dirty old man," watching Faux. I'm sure it works in their favor too. Disgusting.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)Orrex
(63,218 posts)"Obviously I meant that the girl, I mean the lady... Wait, I mean the young woman must have the largest collection of phonograph records, so she gets asked to bring them to lots of parties."
sub.theory
(652 posts)It's indeed a sexist comment, but it's not entirely clear to me if he was being a sleazebag or it was just really awful attempts to be hip and funny. In any case, he certainly comes off looking like as ass.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)uhnope
(6,419 posts)Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)silverweb
(16,402 posts)[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]It's in the reTHUG DNA, just like greed and lust for power are.
Initech
(100,090 posts)d_legendary1
(2,586 posts)Did he pound his chest while he was making those remarks?
JI7
(89,259 posts)as a way to reach out to hispanics.
they come off as nice guys trying to be humorous and friendly with others but are so full of stupid stereotypes.
ismnotwasm
(41,998 posts)Idiot. But typical
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Perfect description of Kasich
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)But he seems to be a shit awful campaigner. Who makes mistakes like this? Not even Dubya.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)bearssoapbox
(1,408 posts)Beowulf42
(204 posts)I'm stunned that the males, and some females, in the Republican party are so braindead when it comes to women. They seem to have no idea how to talk about or treat women. It's like everyone of them is married to a Stepford wife, who just says "Yes, dear," when so many of them could use a spouse who smacks them backside of the head like Jethro, and asks, "What the eff did you just say?"
Rozlee
(2,529 posts)I imagine even Troglodytes would be shaking their heads and saying, "Don't compare us to them. Those guys are asshats."
MADem
(135,425 posts)I was hoping to find some evidence of how the affected individuals reacted to these comments, but I can't find them:
Kasich also said at one point, Im sure you get invited to all of the parties, to one of the female students sitting in the front row of raised seats.
Comments like these, along with some of Kasichs remarks on his policies, led to mixed reactions from some of the students who attended the event.
I think he is quite impressive, McCurdy said, especially in regards to his willingness to put finding a solution above scoring political points with one side or another.
Mendieta said she was overall fairly disappointed in the event. The first half of the event was great, she said, I thought that Kasich was making a lot of points that I thought could agree with. But once the floor was opened to questions, I was discouraged.
Although students had varied reactions to Kasich, many were impressed that a large political event was held on campus.
http://www.thecollegianur.com/article/2015/10/john-kasich-holds-town-hall-forum-on-campus
The source document was kind of mealy-mouthed; no quotes from the affected students and how they "took" the comments.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)ladym55
(2,577 posts)JOHN KASICH IS AN ARROGANT, SEXIST JERK. I have watched the damage of his administration to our state. He is NOT a moderate ... he is NOT reasonable. He is nasty. What he said to those two young women is typical of John Kasich. A state trooper who had the nerve to pull over the great JK was deemed a "jerk" in public.
Please do not kid yourselves that John Kasich is reasonable alternative, unless you would like Ohio's hellish infant mortality rate a national figure, public money funneled to private partners with NO transparency (and no economic growth, either), high rates of poverty for children, and continued loss of reproductive rights.
MBS
(9,688 posts)Our family has thought of Kasich as a political clone of Scott Walker. .. just one with a more "affable" veneer.
JCMach1
(27,562 posts)pintobean
(18,101 posts)those comments are nowhere near as offensive as what Trump said about Kelly.
LuvNewcastle
(16,847 posts)What Trump said was beyond tasteless. I wouldn't have believed that anyone would get away with saying something like that publicly, but he apparently has. It was very degrading. I guess you can say anything these days if you've got enough money.