All-Male Fox News Panel Lashes Out at Women as Breadwinners Before Being Shut Down By Female Anchors
After a Pew Research poll showed women make more money than men in 40 percent of American families, an all-male quintet of Fox News pundits engaged in on-air apoplectics over the results, lamenting the end of the American family.
“What we're seeing with four out of 10 families, now the woman is the primary breadwinner. You're seeing the disintegration of marriage, you're seeing men who were hard hit by the economic recession in ways that women weren't. But you're seeing, I think, systemically, larger than the political stories that we follow every day, something going terribly wrong in American society, and it's hurting our children, and it's going to have impact for generations to come,” said Juan Williams, the former National Public Radio reporter fired for saying he worried when he saw Muslim people on airplanes.
In a strange turn, Erik Erikson trotted out a “scientific” explanation for his distress. “I am so used to liberals telling conservatives that they are anti-science. But I mean this is -- liberals who defend this and say it's not a bad thing are very anti-science. When you look at biology, look at the natural world, the roles of a male and female in society; in other animals the male typically is the dominant role, the female is not antithesis or is not competing; it's a complementary role. We as people in a smart society have lost the ability to have complementary relationships,” he said, nevermind that most species aren’t monogamous and many raise their young in large, polyamorous herds.
“We’re losing a generation. Bottom line, it could undermine our social order,” lamented Doug Schoen, while Lou Dobbs somehow ended up tying women’s wages to abortion.
The entire scene was quickly ridiculed by many viewers and progressive pundits, but even Fox employees spoke out against the obvious misogyny.
“Have these men lost their minds? (and these are my colleagues??!! oh brother… maybe I need to have a little chat with them) (next thing they will have a segment to discuss eliminating women’s right to vote?),” Greta Van Susteren wrote on her Fox News blog.
Anchor Megyn Kelly also lashed out at her colleagues.
“What makes you dominant and me submissive and who died and made you scientist-in-chief?" she told Erik Erickson.
“I didn't like what you wrote one bit. To me you sound like somebody who's judging and then wants to come out and say 'I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, and now let me judge judge judge, and by the way it's science it's science it's science it's fact fact fact fact.’ Well, I have a whole list of studies saying your science is wrong and your facts are wrong.”