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Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts)
Thu Jan 25, 2018, 09:28 PM Jan 2018

Missouri GOP Senate Candidate Says He Expects Dinner on the Table from His Fianc Every Night

Source: Time

By ABIGAIL ABRAMS 8:00 PM EST

A Missouri Republican running for U.S. Senate wants everyone to know that he expects dinner on the table every evening at 6 p.m., hopes his hypothetical future daughters do not turn into “career obsessed banshees” and believes that feminism has “oppressed natural womanhood.”

Courtland Sykes, who is one of several Republicans running to replace Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill, took to Facebook on Tuesday to re-post comments he made last year about women’s rights. “In light of recent questions regarding my views on Women’s Rights, attached is my full statement from September 2017,” he wrote, along with a photo of a six-paragraph response to the question: ‘Do you favor Women’s Rights?’

In response to the titular question, Sykes wrote that his fiancé Chanel Rion gave him “orders” to favor women’s rights, “so I’d better.”

“But Chanel knows that my obedience comes with a small price that she loves to pay anyway,” the statement continues. “I want to come home to a home cooked dinner at six every night, one that she fixes and one that I expect one day to have daughters learn to fix after they become traditional homemakers and family wives—think Norman Rockwell here and Gloria Steinem be damned.”

Read more: http://time.com/5119712/courtland-sykes-missouri-senate-candidate-womens-rights-dinner-table-feminists-snake-filled-heads/











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Missouri GOP Senate Candidate Says He Expects Dinner on the Table from His Fianc Every Night (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jan 2018 OP
Sykes - Yikes!!! lapfog_1 Jan 2018 #1
only difference between him and Hawley is he's an obvious loon pstokely Jan 2018 #19
She's going to throw up years from now, when she looks back and sees ... Honeycombe8 Jan 2018 #2
I'm throwing up right now. Golden Raisin Jan 2018 #11
Yeah, well, dessert would be a slice of Minny's chocolate pie. The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2018 #3
Make it two slices... onecaliberal Jan 2018 #6
Hey Courtland . . . . . . no_hypocrisy Jan 2018 #4
He's going after the Bubba vote, which may work in Missouri. Honeycombe8 Jan 2018 #5
wasn't enough of the Bubba vote in Alabama for the mallrat pstokely Jan 2018 #20
The world is changing and there are more women than men WhiteTara Jan 2018 #33
Well, got the religious right vote with this Miigwech Jan 2018 #7
"bad generic sex" - He will have prostitutes for that keithbvadu2 Jan 2018 #15
Interesting how he wants his future daughters to grow up "traditional family wives"... regnaD kciN Jan 2018 #8
Yep.... republican family values don't have to include marriage keithbvadu2 Jan 2018 #26
Don't know about her snowybirdie Jan 2018 #9
I hate to admit teenagebambam Jan 2018 #16
Is he trying to nail down jb5150 Jan 2018 #10
isn't the neanderthal vote much of the repuke base? pstokely Jan 2018 #21
Trash. paleotn Jan 2018 #12
Exclusive video of this republican candidate still_one Jan 2018 #13
Daughters: Know your place keithbvadu2 Jan 2018 #14
so does he beat her black and blue if she fails her tasks? nt msongs Jan 2018 #17
or else? jpak Jan 2018 #18
Sykes Looks Like He Could Be a Russian dlk Jan 2018 #22
And some of you probably thought that the Republicans couldn't do worse than Trump. Yavin4 Jan 2018 #23
"has fashioned himself in the image of President Donald Trump" - soon to brag abut his adultery keithbvadu2 Jan 2018 #24
"Courtland Sykes" disalitervisum Jan 2018 #25
One reason why some think there's a chance it's all a bit of performance art, or parody muriel_volestrangler Jan 2018 #32
So is he living with his fiancee currently? Because that is not very Norman Rockwell if he is. cstanleytech Jan 2018 #27
A womans place is in the stove Cicada Jan 2018 #28
And that, right there, is why they hate Hillary. (eom) StevieM Jan 2018 #29
She needs to dump his ass and run against him blueinredohio Jan 2018 #30
Paleolithic artifact. Nitram Jan 2018 #31
douchebag Kali Jan 2018 #34
But wait, there's more! ehrnst Jan 2018 #35

pstokely

(10,528 posts)
19. only difference between him and Hawley is he's an obvious loon
Thu Jan 25, 2018, 10:29 PM
Jan 2018

Hawley is the more polished GOP establishment backed candidate, but are they really any different policy wise

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
2. She's going to throw up years from now, when she looks back and sees ...
Thu Jan 25, 2018, 09:31 PM
Jan 2018

what she went along with. Unless, of course, she gets millions in the divorce. But I'm betting he's going to insist on a prenup.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
5. He's going after the Bubba vote, which may work in Missouri.
Thu Jan 25, 2018, 09:35 PM
Jan 2018

But my older brother, who is 65, is a Bubba. That wouldn't work on him or other bubbas I know. My brother grew up with 4 sisters and believes in women being able to work and provide for themselves, learning to do household repair projects, and such. He saw firsthand how helpless our mother was after Dad left. And my Bubba brother LIKES women. He's sexist to a degree. But I think he does see them as real people.

Other Bubbas are getting to be more like that, too, as they increasingly rely on the income of their wives, help with household chores and with the kids, and are more involved as fathers than their fathers were.

The world is changing. Except maybe in Missouri.

pstokely

(10,528 posts)
20. wasn't enough of the Bubba vote in Alabama for the mallrat
Thu Jan 25, 2018, 10:30 PM
Jan 2018

the Bubba vote might be enough the win the repuke primary

WhiteTara

(29,718 posts)
33. The world is changing and there are more women than men
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 01:12 PM
Jan 2018

and my first thought at his demand was "hire a cook." Castor beans look just like coffee beans...mix a few in? Have some coffee, my dear?

 

Miigwech

(3,741 posts)
7. Well, got the religious right vote with this
Thu Jan 25, 2018, 09:37 PM
Jan 2018

... then she has dishes a 7:00, laundry and cleaning up till 9:00, and then bad generic sex at 9:30. Enjoy!

keithbvadu2

(36,823 posts)
15. "bad generic sex" - He will have prostitutes for that
Thu Jan 25, 2018, 09:59 PM
Jan 2018

"bad generic sex" - He will have prostitutes for that

regnaD kciN

(26,044 posts)
8. Interesting how he wants his future daughters to grow up "traditional family wives"...
Thu Jan 25, 2018, 09:38 PM
Jan 2018

...but has no problem living with his girlfriend (excuse me, "fiancée" ) before marriage. As far as I know, "traditional moral values" have always included, y'know, abstaining from premarital sex.


keithbvadu2

(36,823 posts)
26. Yep.... republican family values don't have to include marriage
Thu Jan 25, 2018, 11:46 PM
Jan 2018

Yep.... republican family values don't have to include marriage

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/courtland-sykes-mystery-u-s-senate-candidate-from-missouri-offers/article_4fcd52e1-367d-5930-9eeb-683551e47bad.html

He says he now lives in Independence with his fiancée and his dog.

Teach/learn by example young daughters.

Yavin4

(35,441 posts)
23. And some of you probably thought that the Republicans couldn't do worse than Trump.
Thu Jan 25, 2018, 10:58 PM
Jan 2018

Just know, yes, they can do worse than Trump.

keithbvadu2

(36,823 posts)
24. "has fashioned himself in the image of President Donald Trump" - soon to brag abut his adultery
Thu Jan 25, 2018, 11:31 PM
Jan 2018

"has fashioned himself in the image of President Donald Trump" - soon to brag abut his adultery

 

disalitervisum

(470 posts)
25. "Courtland Sykes"
Thu Jan 25, 2018, 11:34 PM
Jan 2018

Sounds like a name made up by Ayn Rand for one of her characters. But to the point, why is unreasoning fear of the future and advancing tides of history always the motivational scarecrow for conservatives? They must be so afraid of true freedom, terrified of having to make decisions for themselves without a "Leader," to guide them.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,321 posts)
32. One reason why some think there's a chance it's all a bit of performance art, or parody
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 01:09 PM
Jan 2018
John Messmer, a poli sci professor at St. Louis Community College, summarizes the strange case of “Courtland Sykes” — the apparent Breitbartian candidate seeking the Republican nomination for a U.S. Senate seat from Missouri:

“I’m 99.9 percent sure it’s not parody,” Messmer said. “It’s not something strategic done by the Democratic side or someone that’s looking to criticize the conservative or Republican position.

“I do hold back that .1 percent,” Messmer said. “This might be one of the greatest examples of political performance art I’ve ever seen.”

Sykes’ candidacy is so outrageous that Messmer, like me — and like the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, can’t quite be 100-percent sure it’s not all a big put-on. I mean, just look at his name. It all seems a bit too … well, too something.
...
This Post-Dispatch article is from last fall — October 8 — but it’s making news again this week because, on Tuesday, Sykes reposted his “women’s rights” screed on his campaign Facebook site. That’s how it wound up exploding on social media where it has been widely described as a “Facebook rant.”

But it’s not that. Thinking of it only as a Facebook rant makes it sound like something written impulsively and then posted hastily by someone who might have spoken more carefully after getting a bit more sleep. That’s not what this is — this is from a campaign document voluntarily sent to a newspaper several months ago. Sykes has had several months to rethink, clarify, or qualify his comments, but hasn’t done so. The only change he made was to correct his misspelling of Gloria Steinem’s name.

Read more at http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2018/01/25/embrace-deception-learn-bend/#3i2CRpFDVKEJewCq.99

Nitram

(22,813 posts)
31. Paleolithic artifact.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 12:49 PM
Jan 2018

Love the photo. The adoring look from the fiancé and the totally bored look on the throwback's face. She'll long for the wonderful sense of "intimacy" once they tie the knot and he reveals who he really is.

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