Oh dear, it looks like Jesse Watters’ mother needs to give him a good talking to again. The Fox News host regularly spouts so much deliberately provocative nonsense that his mum, a liberal, has called into his show to ask him to use his voice “responsibly”. Instead of listening to her, however, he’s told his audience of millions that men shouldn’t eat soup in public because it’s effeminate, shared his creepy fantasies about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s sex life, and urged America to bomb or “maybe gas” the United Nations headquarters. This week, as Donald Trump (a man) presides over a disastrous, immoral, and unpopular war, Watters has been busy informing the world that women just aren’t cut out to be president.

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“Nancy says there will not be a female president in her lifetime, and I say thank God,” said Watters said on his show. “I hope there’s not a female president in my lifetime.” After being asked by his co-host Jessica Tarlov why he’d say that, he explained that “many people” have said women just aren’t good leaders.

“Many people are saying … do women have the emotional maturity to be president? Many people are saying: do they have the personal contacts in the business world to manage the economy? Many people are saying … do women have the respect of the generals? Many people are saying women don’t have the sense of humor to be president.”

After running through the list of things “many people” were saying, he added: “None of those things I believe.” Watters is obviously an attention-seeking troll who will say anything to try to look edgy, and in an ideal world we could just ignore him and move on with our lives. Alas, the problem is that Watters isn’t just another loser with a microphone, he has an audience of 3 million people for his primetime show. When he peddles these sorts of misogynistic ideas, he helps normalize them.

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