What a catch....

I saw this live on Hardball the other night. Toward the end, Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey tells Editor-in-chief of Salon.com Joan Walsh that "I'm so damn glad that you could never be my wife, cause I surely wouldn't have to listen to that prattle from you every day."

Not only does he dismiss what she has to say on the basis of her gender, he seems to imply that everything wives in general say is "prattle". Too bad this one is taken, girls.

To me, this "soft" sexism is the scariest thing about gender relations. We can fix things like equal pay and access to contraception, but when a certain portion of the male population doesn't think that women have value beyond nagging their husbands, this is much harder to fix.