Welker: You're calling it a sarcastic comment, women felt like it was a gut punch to them. Do you regret making that comment?
— Acyn (@Acyn) August 25, 2024
Vance: I have a lot of regrets but making a joke is not on the top ten list pic.twitter.com/hfMKG9lyGd
JD Vance doesn't regret the disparaging and dismissive turn of phrase he has for childless people (mostly women) ...yet. It's their fault, he says, they take what he refers to as a joke the wrong way. His wife earlier this month tried to clean up this comment as a "quip" that went to the deeper question of whether this nation supported families (which makes no sense in context at all).
It isn't a quip, and it wasn't a one-off. And it speaks to an attitude about what women are for--and isn't there something weird about women who aren't child-focused or domestic? The attitude is "Why should I listen to you? I have kids and you don't. You are a second-class person who should pay more in taxes and have less of a vote."
See how that stops being funny in context? Someone else (a male?) should make our decisions for childless women, because look at our childless selves. Didn't we choose poorly? Aren't we so unfulfilled?
