So there's a tweet this morning from Kirsten Gillibrand. Gillibrand. Gillibrand, US senator from New York. And she actually said this. This is her tweet from this morning. It's almost hard to believe isn't it. And she says, this is Kirsten Gillibrand, a sitting senator who says our future is female, intersectional, powered by our belief in one another and we're just getting started. Our future is female.

Now that might be true and you know I'm not going to argue with the fact of it or the non-fact of it but are you allowed to say that? Are you allowed to be a U.S. senator and say that men are going to be left behind? Because that's what she's saying. She's not saying the future is equality. She's saying the future is not men. She might be right and it would be this kind of attitude that would make that happen but how do you keep your job after this? Seriously how do you go full sexist anti-male as a sitting U.S. senator with no embarrassment whatsoever? This is, you know, she is proudly saying that the future is women. Imagine if anybody said anything like that for any other category. You know I usually don't like to do the well imagine if somebody else did it. I hate that. But this is one where you could put it into anything. The future is fill it in with anything. Could you say that? I don't think you could say that out loud and keep your job in any field in any business. If you worked in corporate America could you keep your job after you said the future is female? I don't know. Could you?

And somebody said she has two boys. I don't know about her personal life. Now it could be that what she means is that women will do better than they're doing now. Maybe something like that. And of course I give her the 48-hour courtesy because this is one where there could be room for misinterpretation. So if she'd like to clarify in the next 48 hours I will fully accept that clarification. Yes the 48-hour rule for clarification and or apology is in effect.

But this is really jaw-dropping. It feels like, how do I say this, it feels like I don't think women understand what it's like to be male just as men don't understand what it's like to be women and just like nobody really understands what it's like to be anybody else. So we'll start with that assumption that's true. But one of the things that women really don't understand about men is that at least in the United States men do a lot to compensate for the fact that they feel like they have advantages. In other words men make lots of allowances for the fact that there are advantages to being male. You know I can pretty much go anywhere without being afraid. I can be alone with anybody without being afraid that something will happen. There are probably some jobs I can get that are harder for a woman to get. So you have advantages. And what would happen if it just turned into all-out war? And I don't mean war in a violent way. I mean what if men were allowed to just absolutely compete against women without any hesitation, without any obstacles, without any social constraints. No violence. I'm not talking about that. I'm just saying that all the social constraints come off and men just say alright it's us against you now. So we're not even going to pretend we're on the same team anymore. It's just us against you. What does that world look like? Do you want to live in that world? That's the world you don't want to live in. And I'd be a little bit afraid about trying to materialize that kind of world.