KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Missouri is under fire for his views on women’s rights. In a Facebook post, he referred to feminists as “career obsessed banshees.”
Courtland Sykes posted his comments this week. The post on his campaign’s Facebook page said: “in light of recent questions regarding my views on Women’s Rights, attached is my full statement from September 2017."
The post starts off by saying Sykes’ fiancé gave him “orders” to favor women’s rights. He then goes on to say he wants to come home to a home-cooked dinner that she fixes at six every night. He then adds he wants his daughters to learn to fix those meals after “they become traditional homemakers and family wives.”
Later in the post, the candidate said he does not “buy into radical feminism’s crazed definition of modern womanhood.” He later says, “They made it up to suit their own nasty, snake-filled heads.”
Sykes is running for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Missouri. He hopes to unseat Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill.
His campaign’s website says Sykes joined the Navy after the 9/11 attacks. The site says he served as an intelligence analyst.
