The Conservative vision for women - you guessed it, boneheadedly regressive as usual.

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http://bipartisanreport.com/2016/04...ome-opposes-bill-for-funding-girls-education/

Texas Representative Louie Gohmert has just established himself as public enemy number one for women by publicly opposing H.R.4742, a new bill that would increase federal support for entrepreneurial programs for women in STEM fields — science, technology, engineering, and math.

Gohmert’s explanation for opposing this bill is that it discriminates against boys. In his own words, “this program is designed to discriminate against that young, poverty-stricken boy and to encourage the girl. Forget the boy. Encourage the girl.” In addition to this backwards argument, he continued on, launching into a ridiculous tirade about how this is also the wrong way to treat women. Naturally, he also had to bring in God and God’s intentions for women.

‘And, you know, that’s just not the way God intended us to be treating women. I know that everybody is today talking about equality and we’ve got groups that are trying to make us believe that women are equal to men. However, that’s just not the case. God didn’t make us equal. It is ourselves, we have created this illusion of equality. And you want to know what the most powerful evidence of that there is? Simple biology. We have parts they don’t and vice versa. So right then and there you’ve got proof of God’s master plan.’

‘Women were created for one thing and one thing alone. We are insulting the Lord by allowing women to act like men. Women are beautiful creatures, no doubt about that. We marry them, we look after them, we provide for them and we love them, but that does not mean they are the same as us. It is the job of a woman to stay at home, to maintain the household, to bear children and look after them after they’re born. Nowhere in the scriptures does it say that women should be chasing after fancy titles and knowledge. The only knowledge they need is the one we men allow them to have.’

Okay, so this bill allegedly ignores poverty stricken boys and their inability to break into STEM, in favor of girls. Putting aside his lack of credibility and the subsequently suspect nature of his analysis, this Republotard's solution to that is what now? Go completely overboard in the opposite direction by suggesting that women should just stay out of tech?

This is why Republicans must be made to shut up about men's rights. Every time they talk about disadvantaged men, they propose solutions that don't fix the problem - they just spread the feces around to the other side. "Forget the boy. Encourage the girl” is bullshit rhetoric coming from the GOP - they don't care about men's rights, they just use men's issues as an excuse to slap down women's rights.

If they really cared about men's rights they would amend this bill to include help for disadvantaged people, regardless of their gender.