Sen. Bill Cassidy: 'Roads and bridges are a woman's problem' because they are 'doing the shopping'

[Nevilledog]

[ProfessorGAC]

4. All Those Male Truck Drivers...

...will be glad to know the bridges will only collapse for women.
What a relief that must be!

[ProfessorGAC]

2. Well, There's Video

So I can't ask "Did he actually say something that dumb?"

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. He is a braying idiot!

[hibbing]

5. Todd of Chuck is so horrid n/t

[dalton99a]

6. Another Republican MD speaks and shit comes out

[Walleye]

7. Senator, mansplain this to your colleagues please, they're too dumb to get it

This is how you convince women to be on your side?

[Hortensis]

8. He spoke of driving times taking away from everyone's lives and that his wife

felt it was also notably a woman's problem because they do so much of the shopping and driving the kids, in addition to commuting to and from work.

"There's a lot here to like. It's a good bill."

Love to hear it from a Republican.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

11. That seems a bit more reasonable than the headline suggests, I have to say (nt)

[Disaffected]

20. Much more reasonable IMO

than the clickbait headline.

[Solly Mack]

9. Idiot

[Ferrets are Cool]

10. And yet they (women) still vote for him because he has an R behind his name

idiots.

[SheltieLover]

14. Boggles the mind, doesn't it???

[Haggard Celine]

12. He's sort of right.

Women do carry a lot of responsibility in families, taking the kids to school, grocery shopping, and going to and from their own jobs. Then they get to do a lot of the cooking and cleaning, too. Sure, some men stay home and the wife works, but I think women often do a lot of the driving.

[Cicada]

13. He said women commute to work and shop and transport kids

So this bill will appeal to women too. Sounds ok to me.

[SheltieLover]

15. Relegating infrastructure to the pink ghetto

So R's can blow it off.

[LakeArenal]

18. Yep I hook up my horse and buggy and shop. Just so I'm home to cook dinner.

It’s 1878 right?

[Takket]

19. I'd encourage everyone to watch the video because the title of this thread

might give you the impression that Cassidy is saying we don't need to do anything about infrastructure because it is a woman's problem. Which he is not. It isn't even his quote, it is his wife's. If anything his statement is somewhat supportive and sympathetic towards woman who may be spending more time out on the road then men shopping/taking kids to practice, in addition to time going to work. Although I'd like to tell his wife that just because a woman might do all the shopping and child rearing in a rethug household, doesn't mean that there aren't us men out here that pitch in a lot more than just driving to and from work every day.

[tanyev]

23. OK, but why does it even have to be said?

Roads and bridges are obviously everybody’s problem. Everybody who ever leaves their house to go somewhere or who purchases goods of any kind. It’s a reflection of how little empathy GOPers really have. Even when they are trying to sound supportive, it comes out sounding odd.

[Takket]

24. because he was literally answering the question Todd asked about how he could sell the bill

to other skeptical rethugs. He then related that he would suggest those rethugs talk to their constituents and see that they want/need this.

[Mz Pip]

21. He was quoting his wife

Infrastructure is important to woman because they spend more time out and about.

[Mad_Machine76]

25. Did he agree with his wife, though?

Hopefully, he, as a US Senator, understands that infrastructure is kind of a thing for everybody. Also, neglecting the fact that most people work outside of the home and would be impacted if everything just felt apart one day.

[48656c6c6f20]

22. He might be a republican

But he said in addition to commuting to work women also do these other things. Is it bad? I don't know. there's a lot of truth in what he said. But if we are hating because he's a republican well I guess I'm all in then...