Republican Senator Says Roads And Bridges Are ‘Women's Problems’

Republican Senator Bill Cassidy has offered up one of the most bizarre claims about the infrastructure in the United States by saying that "roads and bridges" are "a woman's problem." He justified this by saying that his wife is the one who told him this, because women are the ones who do the shopping. This makes absolutely no sense, and it shows that people like Cassidy are not only still living in the dark ages with regards to equality of the sexes, but also that he has no idea what infrastructure actually is. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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This past weekend, Republican Senator Bill Cassidy appeared on NBC's Meet The Press, to talk about the ongoing infrastructure negotiations taking place between Republicans in the Senate and the Biden White House. And Bill Cassidy, by the way, has actually been one of those Republicans going to the White House, working with president Biden. So he's not closed off to the idea of infrastructure, which makes his comments about what infrastructure is here in the United States that much more bizarre because on Meet The Press, Senator Cassidy said, roads, bridges, those are women's problems here in the United States. And to his credit, you know, he tried to say, well, that's what my wife says. My wife is the one who says that roads, bridges, that's a woman's problem. Here's his quote. My wife says that roads and bridges are a woman's problem, if you will, because oftentimes it is the woman aside from commuting to work, who's also taking children to schools or doing the shopping. And the more time that she spends on the road, the less time she spends doing things of higher value, what the hell does that mean?

Can anybody watching this, please explain to me what that has to do with anything that we're talking, first of all, it's not even true. Okay. You're sitting there with this archaic 1940s mindset of, oh, well, women are the only ones who go grocery shopping. They're the only ones who take care of children. And I'm sure, you know, it's probably a good majority of women doing that. But at the same time, what an archaic way of thinking, like, ah, roads, bridges, that's women's problems. Men don't have to worry about potholes. We don't have to worry about a bridge falling down or a condo completely collapsing. Women do that. I, I don't even understand how that's any kind of justification really for or against infrastructure. What point are you trying to make Senator Cassidy? Because I don't think you made it. You just made yourself look like a, you know, dinosaur living in the dark ages where women have to do all the house stuff and men do all the other stuff that doesn't involve being on a road. How do men get to work, buddy? That's what I'm asking you. Like, how do men get to work then? I, it makes absolutely no sense. But also furthermore, it shows that even though he's one of the Republicans trying to negotiate an infrastructure package, he doesn't quite know what infrastructure is, I guess.

Infrastructure, I know we always kind of simplify it to roads and bridges. Yeah. That, that's not even what this whole legislation is about. The, the legislation also includes greening the energy grid, upgrading the energy grid to be able to handle renewable energy sources and get it out to more people, broadband expansion in areas of the country where they don't have this internet that the rest of us take for granted every day. It's building new schools, it's building new fire departments, it's not just the pothole on main street, folks. Infrastructure quite literally means all of the public utilities here in the United States. It can also mean improving water systems, creating new sewers. But I guess, I guess once you get that deep into it, it's no longer a woman's problem.