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MISSOURI, January 30, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – A candidate for U.S. Senate is standing by comments he made last fall blasting modern feminism and the “gender-bending word games” of left-wing academics.
Courtland Sykes, who is trying to win the Republican primary and then unseat pro-abortion Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-MO, posted on Facebook a transcript of a September 29 rant against feminism for which he is now under fire.
“I don’t buy into radical feminism’s crazed definition of modern womanhood and I never did,” said Sykes. “They don’t own that definition – and never did.”
“They made it up to suit their own nasty, snake-filled heads,” he said.
Sykes went on to say that modern women can be anything they want to be, “including traditional women – as millions are and millions more are fasting [sic] becoming.”
However, “I expect one day to have daughters learn to fix [dinner] after they become traditional homemakers and family wives,” he said, “Gloria Steinem be damned.”
During the 2016 presidential election, millennial women looked at Hillary Clinton’s “personal life’s wreckage and didn’t want to become like her,” he said.
Sykes said his support for traditional women “comes with a small price”
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