The Molière Citations team now shake our collective heads in response to this literally incredible nonsense coming from a member of Congress.
“During a hearing on Wednesday, a Democratic lawmaker in the House said the reason why fewer women are involved in manufacturing could be because the term has the word “man” in it.”
“Yesterday I met with a manufacturing company, but they also are engaged in getting young people more engaged in manufacturing,” Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., said.
WHAAAAT?!?
As quoted by one of her colleagues from the other side of the aisle:
“Us: Let’s lead the way and bring jobs back to America. Democrats: ‘Manufacturing’ is a sexist term against women!”
Over the next couple of weeks, we’re going to try hard to find some other dumb statement by an elected or appointed federal official to replace this as the stupidest utterance we can find.
But it’s not going to be easy.
The coveted Molière Citation is awarded to Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill, for having the temerity and departure from reality in making these nonsensical statements in public.
We won’t hold our breath waiting for Webster’s to add “womanufacturing” to the unabridged dictionary!