Fiorina Mocks The Idea That ‘Hormones’ Affect A Woman’s Fitness For Office

Carly Fiorina speaks at the Republican Leadership Summit Saturday, April 18, 2015, in Nashua, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

Republican presidential candidate and former Hewlett-Packer CEO Carly Fiorina on Monday mocked the notion that a woman’s “hormones” would render her unfit to serve as President, reminding an audience at the Iowa State Fair that men’s moods fluctuate, too.

“I was asked on a national television program whether a woman’s hormones prevented her from serving in the Oval Office,” Fiorina told a crowd of fairgoers. “My response was: Can we think of a single instance in which a man’s hormones might have clouded his judgment?”

Her comments could be seen as a thinly veiled jab at fellow Republican candidate Donald Trump, who suggested that Fox host Megyn Kelly directed a tough line of questioning toward him during the first presidential debate because there was “blood coming out of her wherever.” Many took the remark as a reference to Kelly’s menstrual cycle, though Trump insisted it was not.

The comments may also have served as a shot at former President Bill Clinton, the spouse of current Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.

Fiorina previously told CNN that Trump’s comments “were completely inappropriate and offensive” and that “women understood that comment.”

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  1. She’s right. What makes her unfit for office is her presumed entitlement status and her contempt for her “lessers.”

  2. “Can we think of a single instance in which a man’s hormones might have clouded his judgment?” … Her comments could be seen as a thinly veiled jab at fellow Republican candidate Donald Trump,”

    No, I think it more likely she was referencing Bubba and the Knob Slobber incident.

    That being said, I don’t want to dissuade you from continuing to push the narrative about Derpy Donald’s misogyny, so please proceed…

  3. LOL…she had a double mastectomy…

    Well, at least I’m not the only one with wildly inappropriate shit to say haha

  4. We’ellll, I believe she’s had a mastectomy, Eustace; so unless you have a surgical scar fetish…

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