Sen. JD Vance Slammed On Social Media For Saying That Working Women ‘Choose A Path To Misery’

Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) was slammed on social media for declaring in a freshly unearthed video that professional women are on “a path to misery.”

Vance made this claim after he was asked about what he saw in elite institutions like Yale Law School during an episode of the podcast Moment of Truth, which was released on September 20, 2021.

“You have women who think that truly the liberationist path is to spend 90 hours a week working in a cubicle at McKinsey instead of starting a family and having children,” he asserted. 

He then declared that these women fail to “realize—and I think some of them do eventually realize that, thank God—that that is actually a path to misery.” 

“And the path to happiness and to fulfillment is something that these institutions are telling people not to do,” the Ohio senator stated.

“And that’s basically what I think the corruption is, the corruption is it puts people on a career pipeline that – that causes them to chase things that will make them miserable and unhappy,” he went on to say. “And so they get in positions of power, and then they project that misery and happiness on the rest of society.”

Vance then shared what he viewed as the perspective of a professional woman.

“OK, clearly, this value set has made me a miserable person who can’t have kids because I already passed the biological period when it was possible,” he said. “And I live in a 1,200-square-foot apartment in New York, and I pay $5,000 a month for it.”

“‘But I’m really better than these other people. What I’m going to do is project my, like, racial and gender sensitivities on the rest of them. And, like, the reason that our society is broken is because these people don’t think the exact way that I think – even though the way that I think has made me a miserable person, I just need to make more people think like that,'” he added.

He faced a rapid backlash from X users over his comments about working women.

“JD doesn’t know the first thing about women,” the X user @Mckenna20Diane2 wrote in a post.

“His vile contempt for women can no longer be ignored,” user @friendomedia said. “This is a proven track record of disgusting, out-of-touch comments. It’s the one thing he’s remained consistent on – his hate of women.”

“JD Vance has a hatred and disrespect for women that has never been seen to this extent before in American politics,” user @RealMartyT7 stated in a post. “Does JD Vance not know over half the population are women?”

On August 7, Vance told campaign reporters at the Eau Claire, Wisconsin, airport tarmac that he wanted to “get a good look” at Air Force Two as it landed because it would be his plane “in a few months.”

He has also frequently commented negatively about people without children over the years.

During his first election campaign in 2021, he stated on Fox News that America was being run “by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too. And it’s just a basic fact.”

After enduring backlash, the senator attempted to claim that his remarks were “sarcastic.” 

But records show that Vance repeatedly made similar remarks in many emails, which called liberal leaders “childless sociopaths” who “don’t have a direct stake in this country.”