Men are big, mean Neanderthals who degrade women and won’t even let them stand up and talk. First came the U.S. Senate President Neanderthal Mitch McConnell. And now Jameis Winston, quarterback of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, is the latest Neanderthal to be outed by the left-stream media.
If you’ll remember (and what Democrat apologist in the media will let you forget), it was earlier this month that Sen. McConnell halted Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s lengthy attack on a fellow senator, Jeff Sessions, the president’s nominee for U.S. attorney general.
Never mind that she spoke for more than half an hour before she was halted for violating Senate rules against the denigration of a senator. The left-stream media copycats all went with the narrative that Sen. Warren had been “silenced.” By men. Liberals in the media are still carrying on about this more than two weeks later.
Yesterday, USAToday’s Maggie Hendricks dragged Winston into this farce. She wrote that he snubbed girls in a speaking appearance at a fifth-grade classroom in St. Petersburg, Fla. And, in light of actions involving Sen. Warren, it’s just additional proof that females are being relegated to the status of second-class citizens. Hendricks cites remarks made by Winston to make her point:
“All my young boys, stand up. The ladies, sit down. But all my boys, stand up. We strong, right? We strong! We strong, right? All my boys, tell me one time: I can do anything I put my mind to. Now a lot of boys aren’t supposed to be soft-spoken. You know what I’m saying? One day y’all are going to have a very deep voice like this. One day, you’ll have a very, very deep voice.
“But the ladies, they’re supposed to be silent, polite, gentle. My men, my men (are) supposed to be strong. I want y’all to tell me what the third rule of life is: I can do anything I put my mind to.”
Hendricks responded this way:
“Ladies, sit down.
“Ladies, stay silent.
“Ladies, only men are strong.
“Winston took a chance to talk to fifth graders and used it to reinforce ugly stereotypes.
“It’s hard to get past what those girls heard," Hendricks wrote. "Women are constantly being told to sit down and be quiet. It happened to a senator just a few weeks ago.”
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What’s the ugly stereotype? Treating the girls in the room “as if they don’t deserve to have a voice is wrong and hurtful,” says Hendricks, who then stereotyped football jocks by writing they should confine their appearances to the Boy Scouts.
Hendricks also claims Winston’s remarks were not just hurtful to the girls. “Telling boys they always must be strong puts them into a box they don’t deserve to be in. If they boys can be anything they want to be, what if they want to be soft-spoken? What if being strong isn’t as important to them as being open and loving?”
What if they want to be snowflakes?
What if Winston had told the boys to stand up and question their gender and to be an Olympic-champion-turned-woman like Jenner? He would be the darling of the Left and receive high praise from the NBA and NFL commissioners.
For his part, Winston deflated Hendricks’ sensationalistic claims, saying, “I was making an effort to interact with a young male in the audience who didn’t seem to be paying attention, and I didn’t want to single him out so I asked all the boys to stand up. During my talk, I used a poor word choice that may have overshadowed that positive message for some.”
Someone is owed a big apology, Maggie.
