EXCLUSIVE: Darla Shine said women fail in politics "because we are hormonal crazy b**ches"

[DonViejo]

On her podcast in 2007, wife of top Trump aide said women are too hormonal to be successful politicians

SHIRA TARLO
JULY 18, 2018 10:00AM (UTC)

Darla Shine, the wife of newly minted White House deputy chief of staff for communications Bill Shine, hosted a podcast in the late 2000s where she once suggested women are too emotional to be successful politicians.

Salon reviewed audio from Darla Shine's podcast after her history of mocking victims of sexual harassment in the military, spreading anti-vaccination conspiracy theories and making racially charged comments came to light. Shine, who long maintained a mommy blog where she highlighted recipes and house cleaning, has come under intense scrutiny in recent days after multiple outlets reported she had made racially charged remarks and promoted unfounded anti-vaccination conspiracy theories on her now-deleted Twitter account.

In a previously unreported July 2007 taping, Shine suggested women cannot be successful in politics because they're "hormonal crazy b**ches."

"This is why women are not major in politics, because we are hormonal crazy b**ches," Shine said on her podcast, "Happy Housewives Club," at the time. "It's true, and once a month the moon aligns with our uteruses or something and we get crazy."

While Shine's recently unearthed racist comments have largely been ignored by the White House, the Trump administration does have several women in senior positions, including: Nikki Haley, Ambassador to the United Nations; Elaine Chao, Secretary of Transportation; Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security; Dr. Heather Wilson, Secretary of the Air Force; Sarah Huckabee Sanders, White House Press Secretary; Kellyanne Conway, Counselor to the President; Mercedes Schlapp, Senior Communications Advisor; and Gina Haspel, the first female to head the CIA.

It remains to be seen if Shine's disparaging comments about women in politics will elicit any response or rebuke. Darla Shine did not respond to multiple requests for comment. The White House also did not respond to several requests or indicate if Bill Shine, ousted from Fox News in the midst of a sexual harassment scandal, endorses his wife's views.

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[tanyev]

1. Speak for yourself, cupcake.

[Dulcinea]

31. Who TF is this skank, & why should I or anyone care what she thinks?

She's nobody.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

2. This boy sure looks happy:

Is one ever too young to realize their parents are sociopaths?

[Ferrets are Cool]

5. Why is she not barefoot?

And pregnant? And in the kitchen?????

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

8. Well, in her "defense" she just came out of the kitchen. You can tell because she's

wearing that apron. I'm sure they don't rely on their pack of servants at all. And BTW how the fuck does she have time to make idiotic sexist comments on podcasts, etc , when she's supposed to be dusting and house-wifing shit at home?

[Roland99]

7. Serena Joy?

[workinclasszero]

10. This is the kind of mindless idiocy we are up against folks

[Mister Ed]

3. Instead of stable geniuses like our president.

[JDC]

4. She really is a piece of work.

[Mc Mike]

6. She meant repug women.

Gotta mouse in your pocket, Darla?

[dchill]

9. It's funny - the assumption that men are NOT hormonal...

b**tches. We're just as bad.

[MANative]

11. From my observations...

sometimes FAR worse. It's sooo easy to lead a guy around by his .... hormones. Or so I've been told.

[dchill]

12. I, too, have been told. AND shown.

[Solly Mack]

13. I pity their children. They'll grow up with Bill and Darla Shine as role models.

The little girl will learn to loathe women (and herself) and the little boy will grow up to think it OK to loathe women.

The little girl will learn she has to conform to a sexist idea of womanhood and the little boy will learn that a sexist idea of womanhood is the proper way to view women.

[leftynyc]

14. Hmmmm

I guess this woman never heard of Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir, Benazir Bhutto, Indira Gandhi. Why are all right wing women such vapid twits?

[demigoddess]

24. or Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth II.

LOngest rulers of England etc. And the best if you ask me.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

15. Given what we've seen in the whole history of American politics (esp. with Trump)

It doesn't seem like women in politics could realistically be any worse (and probably would be better)

[SamKnause]

16. Speak for yourself -itch.

[librechik]

17. Men have hormones too--and they get even stupider than women or ferrets

when those dick stiffeners are aroused' And it's not just once a month. it's 24/7

[Ferrets are Cool]

20. Hey, Hey, watch with the ferret disparaging....

Ferrets are smarter than any repug politician that I know.

[librechik]

22. err...sorry! I actually meant WOULDN'T be a match

for the ferret's cunning intelligence.

You believe me, don't you?

[Ferrets are Cool]

33. Suuuuuuuuuuuuure I do...

[ProfessorGAC]

26. I Just Knew You'd Rise Up Over That

Pretty funny exchange, folks!

[Ferrets are Cool]

32. ...

I just couldn't let sleeping ferrets lie.

[superpatriotman]

18. America is being trolled

Hard.

[Garrett78]

19. Just as some POC hate POC, some women hate women.

[spooky3]

27. +1 or have bought into the patriarchy

[smirkymonkey]

21. What a trashy skank.

She and her husband deserve each other.

[sinkingfeeling]

23. Then what's Red Don's excuse?

[Drunken Irishman]

25. I'm appalled at how many women think like this...

I have a friend, who is pretty progressive on pretty much every issue, even voted for Obama, but didn't want Hillary as president because, as she put it, "women shouldn't be in position of authority...they're too emotional."

I reminded her that Hillary was running against a literal twitter troll and she conceded the point but was still skeptical.

She didn't vote (I don't think she's voted since 2008, tbh) but I'm like, holy shit how can you think that?

[spooky3]

28. Funny how they never talk about how most

Women over about 45 don’t have to worry about those crazy hormonal cycles.

[Doreen]

30. If she did not vote then she has no right to express her opinion out loud.

She needs to shut up and take the consequences she helped create.

[Drunken Irishman]

34. She doesn't. That's the problem.

She doesn't care about politics for the most part. It's a problem because there are millions of indifferent people like her.

[whathehell]

29. Speak for yourself, you self-hating dumbass..

Men have hoones too.