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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEXCLUSIVE: Darla Shine said women fail in politics "because we are hormonal crazy b**ches"
On her podcast in 2007, wife of top Trump aide said women are too hormonal to be successful politicians
SHIRA TARLO
JULY 18, 2018 10:00AM (UTC)
Darla Shine, the wife of newly minted White House deputy chief of staff for communications Bill Shine, hosted a podcast in the late 2000s where she once suggested women are too emotional to be successful politicians.
Salon reviewed audio from Darla Shine's podcast after her history of mocking victims of sexual harassment in the military, spreading anti-vaccination conspiracy theories and making racially charged comments came to light. Shine, who long maintained a mommy blog where she highlighted recipes and house cleaning, has come under intense scrutiny in recent days after multiple outlets reported she had made racially charged remarks and promoted unfounded anti-vaccination conspiracy theories on her now-deleted Twitter account.
In a previously unreported July 2007 taping, Shine suggested women cannot be successful in politics because they're "hormonal crazy b**ches."
"This is why women are not major in politics, because we are hormonal crazy b**ches," Shine said on her podcast, "Happy Housewives Club," at the time. "It's true, and once a month the moon aligns with our uteruses or something and we get crazy."
While Shine's recently unearthed racist comments have largely been ignored by the White House, the Trump administration does have several women in senior positions, including: Nikki Haley, Ambassador to the United Nations; Elaine Chao, Secretary of Transportation; Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security; Dr. Heather Wilson, Secretary of the Air Force; Sarah Huckabee Sanders, White House Press Secretary; Kellyanne Conway, Counselor to the President; Mercedes Schlapp, Senior Communications Advisor; and Gina Haspel, the first female to head the CIA.
It remains to be seen if Shine's disparaging comments about women in politics will elicit any response or rebuke. Darla Shine did not respond to multiple requests for comment. The White House also did not respond to several requests or indicate if Bill Shine, ousted from Fox News in the midst of a sexual harassment scandal, endorses his wife's views.
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tanyev
(42,356 posts)Dulcinea
(6,505 posts)She's nobody.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,481 posts)Is one ever too young to realize their parents are sociopaths?
Ferrets are Cool
(21,059 posts)And pregnant? And in the kitchen?????
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,481 posts)wearing that apron. I'm sure they don't rely on their pack of servants at all. And BTW how the fuck does she have time to make idiotic sexist comments on podcasts, etc , when she's supposed to be dusting and house-wifing shit at home?
Roland99
(53,342 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Mister Ed
(5,896 posts)JDC
(10,081 posts)Mc Mike
(9,106 posts)Gotta mouse in your pocket, Darla?
dchill
(38,319 posts)b**tches. We're just as bad.
MANative
(4,105 posts)sometimes FAR worse. It's sooo easy to lead a guy around by his .... hormones. Or so I've been told.
dchill
(38,319 posts)Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)The little girl will learn to loathe women (and herself) and the little boy will grow up to think it OK to loathe women.
The little girl will learn she has to conform to a sexist idea of womanhood and the little boy will learn that a sexist idea of womanhood is the proper way to view women.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)I guess this woman never heard of Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir, Benazir Bhutto, Indira Gandhi. Why are all right wing women such vapid twits?
demigoddess
(6,640 posts)LOngest rulers of England etc. And the best if you ask me.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,355 posts)It doesn't seem like women in politics could realistically be any worse (and probably would be better)
SamKnause
(13,037 posts)librechik
(30,663 posts)when those dick stiffeners are aroused' And it's not just once a month. it's 24/7
Ferrets are Cool
(21,059 posts)Ferrets are smarter than any repug politician that I know.
librechik
(30,663 posts)for the ferret's cunning intelligence.
You believe me, don't you?
Ferrets are Cool
(21,059 posts)ProfessorGAC
(64,413 posts)Pretty funny exchange, folks!
Ferrets are Cool
(21,059 posts)I just couldn't let sleeping ferrets lie.
superpatriotman
(6,232 posts)Hard.
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)spooky3
(34,301 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)She and her husband deserve each other.
sinkingfeeling
(51,275 posts)Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)I have a friend, who is pretty progressive on pretty much every issue, even voted for Obama, but didn't want Hillary as president because, as she put it, "women shouldn't be in position of authority...they're too emotional."
I reminded her that Hillary was running against a literal twitter troll and she conceded the point but was still skeptical.
She didn't vote (I don't think she's voted since 2008, tbh) but I'm like, holy shit how can you think that?
spooky3
(34,301 posts)Women over about 45 dont have to worry about those crazy hormonal cycles.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)She needs to shut up and take the consequences she helped create.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)She doesn't care about politics for the most part. It's a problem because there are millions of indifferent people like her.
whathehell
(28,968 posts)Men have hoones too.