Gavin McInnes ranted all over a Huffington Post video chat in the most tired, men’s rights-y way imaginable:

Women are forced to pretend to be men. They’re feigning this toughness. They’re miserable. Study after study has shown that feminism has made women less happy. They’re not happy in the work force, for the most part. I would guess 7 percent [of women] like not having kids, they want to be CEOs, they like staying at the office all night working on a proposal, and all power to them. But by enforcing that as the norm, you’re pulling these women away from what they naturally want to do, and you’re making them miserable.

McInnes says that the “natural” order is that men are tough and women are on earth to shape life, which is basically just religious talk without the God thrown in, a lazy argument gesturing toward evolution by someone who doesn’t understand evolution. And in any case, has humanity ever been interested in doing what’s natural? Show me naturally occurring pants and then we can talk about humans being interested in following nature.

I’ve never been a fan of the Vice aesthetic as imagined by McInnes, and I hated his memoir with a burning passion, but this douchey rant really identifies McInnes as someone to be safely ignored. If he’s throwing around flimsy ideas like this, he’s got nothing left to offer.

12 replies on “<i>Vice</i> Founder Gavin McInnes Says Women “Naturally” Want to Be Homemakers”

  2. Gavin mentions “study after study” but doesn’t cite his sources – at least in the excerpt you posted. Do you have any to offer, Paul? If not…what exactly is the point of this article?

  3. “Dickhead is dickhead.”

    Paul Constant and Barbara Holmes’ motto: “All the Easy Self-Righteousness That’s Fit to Insufferably Declaim.”

  6. Well work in general, does suck and very few people will be CEOs. He could have said “Generation Y” and made a similar, less controversial point.

  7. Working in an office is making me less happy and pulling me away from what I want naturally want to do as well, and that’s sit on my ass at home and make semi-witty comments on news sites while eating a bucket of Popeye’s Fried Chicken.

  11. I notice it’s generally those with extreme conservative, pro-conformist/traditional beliefs that are adamant about forcing others (usually forcing women) to adhere to their beliefs. If you really want to help some one be happier & more fulfilled, why would you try to it against their will & treat them with such hatred & contempt like Gavin did with the young lady he screamed obscenities at ?
    As for those of you who agree with that hateful bully, fine, that’s your own business. But don’t you dare try to force others to conform. If you do, you are just as big a bully as he is.

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