Fox's All-Male Panel Believes Women Making Money Goes Against 'Science'

[William769]

We all know that Fox News is not exactly a haven progressive feminist thought. But while we've perhaps come to expect some phallo-centric douchebaggery from the right-leaning "news" organization, a discussion on host Lou Dobbs's show Wednesday truly illuminated the misogyny characteristic of the network's talking heads.

Dobbs opens the segment acknowledging that he's about to do something unusual for him — discuss results from the Pew Center, a moderate, non-partisan think tank. (Which in Fox-ese means "left-wing commie propaganda machine, of course.)

Citing a Pew study that found women to be the primary earners in 40% of American homes, Dobbs categorizes the information together with "a lot of other concerning and troubling statistics" which indicate that "our society is being torn in so many directions."

Commentator Juan Williams was downright livid, saying the fact that women are sometimes the primary earner in American households indicates the "disintegration of marriage."

But Erick Erickson provided the real icing on the cake.

http://www.shewired.com/soapbox/2013/05/30/watch-foxs-all-male-panel-believes-women-making-money-goes-against-science

[life long demo]

1. I don't know whether to laugh or cry

You'd think this was all behind us by now.

[William769]

4. I know how you feel.

They seem not to be able to blame teh Gays for all their marriage problems so I guess women are on the hit list once again.

Heaven forbid one of them would think to look in the mirror and realize hey matbe us and our ideas are the problem.

[Initech]

2. Can we really just call them stupid?

[TRoN33]

6. +1000!

[question everything]

3. And what, pray tell, do they define by "science?"

Is it the one where the earth is 5,000 years old? Created in 6 days? Where dinosaurs and humans walked side by side?

As someone recently commented: they are so far to the right that they are in danger of falling off the edge of the flat earth that they believe.

[onehandle]

5. Damn. My wife makes good money. I'll go break the news to her. nt

[lindysalsagal]

7. Welcome to a.d. 1913

Anybody got an old corset lying around? Can't find mine anywhere!

[MindPilot]

8. What does anyone on FOX know about science?

I'm surprised they can get all those electrical things to make a picture on the TV.

[JoePhilly]

9. Fox's new show ... The He-man woman haters club

[Initech]

10. Calling these people cave men is an insult to actual cave men.

[riderinthestorm]

11. Well its either a dominant/submissive marriage, or its one of complementary partners. Can't be both

ya dumb ass.

Can't even get your analogy's straight.

And nobody called him on it of course.

Beyond that, there are MANY matriarchal structures in nature - lions, elephants, horses, meerkats, Bonobos etc etc.

Guy's an idiot all around.