Lauren Boebert says women are "weaker, lesser vessel, need masculinity" "Between the two sexes, U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert called women “the lesser vessel” during a conversation with a conservative comedian Friday. “'We are created equal, we’re not the same,” Boebert told Brad Stine during a video chat. 'Women are the lesser vessel and we need masculinity in our lives to balance that, that so-called weakness.' “'Just us being more frail and needing that strength in our lives,' she added. ... ... "A representative for Boebert, of Silt, said the congresswoman didn’t mean to say that women are 'lesser.'” ___________ Her spokesman said she misspoke, intending to say 'weaker' both times.
I saw that. I instantly thought it was a kick ass girl band name. “The Weaker Vessels” opening up for the Indigo Girls. My second thought was she’s a moron. While MTG is repulsive no one is as dumb as BoBo.
I do like the Indigo Girls. One particular line is striking to me: "I spent four years prostrate to the higher minds, got my paper, and I was free."
The problem is people mostly make up "the strengths," ascribe that to nature, and it sort of gives people the excuse not to work on the weaknesses. For example people say women are better at communicating or providing nurturing, but it also lets men off the hook for being shit at communication or not nurturing their children (and if men do it, people with an agenda talk about wussification if they see man with a stroller or holding his wife's bag or something). Men & women are usually steered away from /into certain professions based on these ideas, so it tends to reinforce itself economically too.
Pilloried for referencing a Bible. And you just don’t reference the Bible, in this America ... unless you’re a preauthorized identity group.
I googled the phrase "weaker vessel" because it sounded to me like something she may have gotten from the Bible. It appears she was trying to reference 1 Peter 3:7 - at least the KJV. I am willing to accept that she meant to say "weaker" and not "lesser." Though whether women are "weaker" is debatable depending upon the context. The Biblical quote was about marriage and it appears her comments were in the context of trans athletes.
She hasn’t met my wife and daughters. As for “masculinity”, I vacuum and wash the dishes. Oh, and I make my bed first thing every morning. In a word, I'm a wimp. I wish BoBo were in my life to make me feel “masculine “.
I know you are joking about having 'BoBo' in your life, but there was an incident in 2004 when 17 year old Boebert was dating 24 year old Jayson and witnessed her future husband expose himself to teenage girls. Accounts of the incident vary somewhat, but records indicate something lewd did indeed occur for which Jayson Boebert was arrested and jailed. https://www.salon.com/2021/08/31/la...wd-exposure-in-a-bowling-alley-she-was-there/ Jayson Steven Boebert, the husband of Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., has complicated his wife's political career recently, after reports that the right-wing congresswoman failed to disclose Jayson's highly-paid work in the natural gas industry while she was serving on the House Natural Resources Committee, which directly oversees regulation of that business. It appears that might not be the only thing about Jayson that Rep. Boebert doesn't want the public to know. In January 2004, when Jayson Boebert was 24, he was arrested for exposing himself to two young women at a Colorado bowling alley. His future wife Lauren Roberts (as she was then known), who was 17 at the time, was also present and was told she was no longer welcome at the bowling alley. Jayson Boebert pled guilty to "public indecency and lewd exposure" after that incident, according to The New York Post, and was sentenced to four days in jail with a subsequent two years on probation. Salon has obtained a witness statement written at the time by Erica Anne Coombs, one of the two young women involved in the bowling alley incident, who still lives in Lauren Boebert's congressional district. Coombs wrote that after harassing a third person identified as Nora, Jayson Boebert told Coombs and another young woman, identified as Trisha Walies, that he had a tattoo on his penis. _______________________ Lauren Boebert denies her husband exposed his penis in a bowling alley in 2004, despite his guilty plea, and says 'he needed the alcohol and anger management classes': book Rep. Lauren Boebert stands by her "hunky" husband in her new memoir, writing that Jayson Boebert never exposed his penis in a bowling alley bar in 2004, despite being arrested, pleading guilty, and serving jail time for public indecency and lewd exposure. The gun-toting Republican firebrand from Colorado denies the allegations in "My American Life," released on Tuesday. And she blames a 17-year-old bartender at the Fireside Lane bowling alley in Rifle, CO, who "wouldn't stop" asking to see Jayson's private tattoo. _________________________________ Lauren Boebert Explains Husband's Public Indecency Charge in New Book In her new memoir, Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert insists that her husband never exposed himself in a bowling alley, despite pleading guilty and serving jail time for the incident. Boebert's book, My American Life, was released on Tuesday and discussed the incident that saw her partner, Jayson Boebert, arrested in 2004 for exposing his penis to two young women at a Colorado bowling alley. He pleaded guilty to public indecency and lewd exposure, and was sentenced to four days in jail with a subsequent two years of probation. In the book, Insider reports that the Republican representative wrote that she blames the 17-year-old bartender at the Fireside Lane bowling alley in Rifle, Colorado, for repeatedly asking to see Jayson Boebert's "private" tattoo. Representative Boebert insisted that he did not expose his penis, but rather "acted like he was going to unzip his pants" while drunk.
It’s hard to wrap one’s head around the fact that some group of folks in the fine state of Colorado voted her into office. But, as I’ve observed innumerable times, there are bad gene pools everywhere.
Women are obviously the physically weaker sex. Exceptions don't change that. She could have worded what she meant a little better.
