Good old Matt Gaetz, had to have his say on the Supreme Court's anticipated assault
on the access to abortion.
And of course the Florida congressman used his voice to attack educated women.
Gaetz tweeted this, how many of the women rallying against overturning roe
are over-educated, under-loved millennials who sadly returned from
protest to a lonely microwave dinner with their cats, and no bumble matches?
Now, Gaetz, well, he's profoundly anti-abortion yet
he also opposed legislation expanding access to other forms of healthcare.
Something that would seem to really not seem to jive well,
especially if you are here for forcing individuals to give birth.
There's also something else that makes Gaetz tweet about single women,
his age rather, shall we say pathetic per vanity fair.
The very important context that this tweet was written by a guy currently under
investigation for allegedly paying women for sex and
separately sleeping with a minor and transporting her across state lines.
Yeah, that would really seem to explain why Gaetz's tweet was ratio to
hell on twitter.
Fellow tweeters took him to task including this one, at Betty Bowers,
who tweeted, Matt Gaetz thinks most women are over-educated because he
doesn't like women old enough to have a high school diploma.
Jake, would you say that's kind of on point.
>> Yeah, both sides of this quote are amazing in their hypocrisy,
under love millennials dude, you have to pay for sex.
Okay, I'm okay with sex work generally, but
you don't get to go around saying that other people are under-loved when you
have to literally pay people to love you, even for a night.
So, he says, well, look, I don't know about the underage thing and
crossing state lines etcetera.
I guess he says that, I can't wait to see him under testimony,
but I don't think there's any dispute that he paid for sex.
And so bragging about how others are under-loved and
is just a tad ironic to say the least.
But to me, the other part of the quote was more interesting.
These over-educated women, I mean, look at that guys, that's what Republicans think.
They think, you don't want your women too educated, you want them dumb so
that they believe you when you take away their rights and you make them serve you.
Women, this is who you wanna vote for?
You wanna vote for someone who says, I mean, I wouldn't want you to be smart and
over-educated, and then have your own agency and your own power and
be able to control your own lives.
I would want you destitute and dependent upon me, so I could tell you and
command you to do whatever I want.
Disgusting, and
you ought to have your head examined if you're a woman voting for Republicans.
>> Absolutely.
And it's so weird too because I remember seeing Marjorie Taylor Greene with her
white Nationalists who were cheering her on one side of their mouth and
then on the other side they're saying how, she's a woman and
really disparaging her because she is female.
And it's also very interesting to how people don't fully appreciate the fact
that there's a reason our country doesn't really invest in education.
Because they want a working class of people who are not going to push back,
who are not gonna challenge, who are not going to in any way,
interfere with the 1% keeping the majority of the wealth.
And Gaetz, seems to really exemplify all of these things in his statements,
criticizing over-educated women because the more knowledge and
education you have, the more likely it is that you will challenge the system.
That you will speak up and also that you will not wanna get with Matt Gaetz,
him and his raggedy self.
>> Matt Gates's quote is not just telling women, hey,
I don't want you to be smart, I don't want you to get an education.
It's also damning of men because how pathetic do you have to
be as a man that you can't have a woman that's too educated?
I mean, why don't you just tell on yourself?
Why don't you say, hey, I'm a dummy and if a woman is smart,
I won't be able to handle her, I'm too pathetic, I'm too dumb.
So, I need someone who's just as uneducated as I am.
That's so sad, that's pathetic.
You know what I want?
I want a really smart woman and so that I can have a conversation with her, so
we can live life together, and share together and not be plants or vegetables.
I don't wanna lauder people around, I wanna share things.
But if you're a right winger, you're so insecure, so sad,
that you think, my God, if women are educated they would never want me.
And that's really the saddest thing I've ever heard.