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God is not sexist
Sorry Ted Yoho, that is not what Jesus would do
Poor Ted Yoho.
The Republican Member of Congress from Florida has had a tough week. He thought it started out well, putting that “f — — n’ b — -h” Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) in her place, and showing his fellow Republican Roger Williams (R-TX) how it’s done.
But things didn’t turn out quite how he expected. Rather than praise for his manly take-down of the 5 foot 4 inch Democratic Socialist, Twitter and the media pounced on his disrespectful behavior. Indeed, Twitter lit up with women describing times men had called them a “b —h.”
Following standard damage control advice, Yoho decided to give a speech the next day on the House floor “apologizing” to Ocasio-Cortez for the “misunderstanding.” I put the words in quotation marks on purpose. As Adam Raymond of New York Magazine pointed out, his speech was a “terrible apology for the ages.” In fact, it really wasn’t an apology. As Ocasio-Cortez pointed out the next day, Yoho’s speech was really an effort to “make excuses for his behavior.”
