Tucker Carlson: Women Who Pay for Men’s Dinners Are ‘Disgusting’

[big_dog]

Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Tuesday asserted that men were not living up to their “manly responsibility” by letting women pay for dinner and by not participating in activities like hunting. British TV host Bear Grylls opined at a recent luncheon for his new adventure reality show that manliness was in crisis because the modern man was relying on technology instead of “your spear, your brains, your resourcefulness, your courage.”

“I think this is real,” Carlson agreed on Tuesday’s edition of Fox News. “Part of it is somebody told boys when they were little, ‘Be sensitive, be thoughtful.’ And some of that’s fine, too much of it makes you pretty unattractive to women. And this is one of the reasons, because it suggests weakness.” “I blame it on the feminist movement,” Fox News host Katie Pavlich remarked. “Because the feminist movement for decades has told men not to embraces their manliness, that is part of the patriarchy of our society. And that being a man is a bad thing. And that you should downgrade your manliness. And saying ‘man up’ is not acceptable because manning up is not based on gender.”

“They have all these things where they take the man part out of being a man,” she added. “And then we wonder why men don’t act like men anymore.” Carlson argued that men did not necessarily need to hunt and fish to be masculine. “Men, who on the second date, let their date pay for dinner, I’m sorry that’s disgusting,” he insisted. “And I don’t care. The new norms are — he shouldn’t allow it. Period.”

Co-host Sandra Smith pointed out that men could show respect for women “and not assume that he’s the macho man” who needs to pay for dinner.“He should be the macho man,” Carlson shot back. “He ought to have respect for himself. Are you kidding? Let a girl pay? What are you joking?” n recent days, Fox News has aired multiple segments suggesting that “female breadwinners” could be a “problem.” “Isn’t there some sort of biological, innate need for me to be the caveman?” host Clayton Morris wondered over the weekend. “Go out and bring home the dinner. Is it emasculating if we don’t do it?”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/06/fox-news-host-tucker-carlson-women-who-pay-for-mens-dinners-are-disgusting/

[randys1]

1. Tucker couldnt get laid in a woman's prison with a hundred pardons

[theHandpuppet]

10. OMG

[Brigid]

25. DUzy! DUzy!

[Aerows]

35. LMFAO!

[Dorian Gray]

45. Bah!

[yeoman6987]

54. With all the issues we have today

This is what upsets Tucker? Goodness. If he put energy into making America the best it can be, we all might be better off. What a waste of stress to worry about something so innocent. I have paid for woman's meals millions of times and I have had my meals paid by woman millions of times. What is the big deal?

[Nay]

57. OMG, I'm on the dern floor, laughing....

[A HERETIC I AM]

59. I thought it was "Fist full of pardons" ?

Either way, spot on!

I love it when a kid in a bow tie tells me how to be a man!

Jesus. I'm ten years and exactly ten days older than that twatwaddle.

What a horses ass he is and has been ever since he first started screwing up television.

[randys1]

60. you are right kind sir

[Major Nikon]

114. I thought it was "he couldn't get laid in a monkey bordello with a case of bananas"

[A HERETIC I AM]

116. Yanno....at this point I'm just gonna go with....

whatever pitches your prop!

[calimary]

142. Twatwaddle!!! OMG!!!!

SCORE!!!!!!

We refer to him as Little tucker carlson. Is he shaving yet? When I first saw this story, I thought - "and we should pay attention to anything little tucker carlson says because... ... ... ... ... ?

Love reading the comments here, though! He's never really recovered from the job Jon Stewart did on him when he was on CNN. "C'mon. Be funny!" And Paul Begala just sat back and let little tucker bow-tie fry himself in his own skillet. GOD that was WUNNNNNderful!!!!!!

[A HERETIC I AM]

143. Yup. One of the great TV takedowns in modern history.

I'd love to see it happen again. I'm betting that is the reason twatwaddle hasn't been within 25 blocks of Stewart in the last almost 10 years!

Yikes! Yeah...I just looked that up! Stewarts appearance on Crossfire was in October of 2004.

[Stargazer09]

91. You are so right!

[valerief]

118. Badda bing!

[Blue_Tires]

2. Hell, I'd let a woman cover the bill all day, every day...

[Eleanors38]

30. I'm with you.

[malaise]

3. Poor little Richie Rich

He was forced to abandon the bow tie after Jon Stewart tore him a new one.
Lil Fucker Carlson has been living off free lunches all his blasted life.

[Scuba]

4. I'm pretty sure Tucker thinks all women are disgusting.

[malaise]

26. Well this woman thinks Fucker is disgusting

I seriously dislike that nauseating entitled ReTHUG scumbag.

[Stargazer09]

92. Yes, he does

And most women can see it. Probably part of the reason why he's so bitter.

[liberalhistorian]

5. Why do I get the feeling that he'd

then call women who don't pay for their dinners "lazy freeloaders who just want to be taken care of" or some such shit? You just can't win with misogynists. And yet there are plenty of women who are misogynists themselves and make life difficult for other women. Sigh.

[arcane1]

9. Indeed, it's sad to see female hosts playing along with this crap.

[Warren DeMontague]

21. It's Fox News.

Really, the only surprising thing is that there wasn't a BENGHAZIII!!!!!! tie-in.

[arcane1]

52. Small blessings, I'll take them!

[arcane1]

6. Tucker's prowess at spear-hunting makes him a magnet for the ladies

[alp227]

7. hey *ucker: your face is disgusting as is your shoddy Daily Caller thing nt

[PeaceNikki]

8. rest easy, Tuck. I know many women who wouldn't ever buy you dinner.

[Richardo]

78. ...

[LadyHawkAZ]

11. Oh dearie me, I am incredibly disgusting to Tucker Carlson

[Wait Wut]

13. Yep.

I'd say 99.9% of the women on DU are disgusting to ol' Tuck. Pretty damned sure the feeling is mutual.

[Warren DeMontague]

24. You're sure you're not mourning the lost opportunity?

C'mon. Admit it! He's SEXY!

[LadyHawkAZ]

28. .

[big_dog]

86. he's sexy and he knows it! :)

[Wait Wut]

12. Aw, geez.

WTF is wrong with those people over there? I can guarantee, as a somewhat intelligent, independent and very married woman, that I have never questioned a man's 'manliness' because he let me pay for dinner. Crap.

Hey, guys? A woman that thinks you're not man enough because she makes more money than you, or any of the crap that this asshat and minions mentioned, isn't worth the breath to speak her name. Find better.

Love,
Your DU Matron of the Day

[awoke_in_2003]

134. I wish my wife

made more than me

[Le Taz Hot]

14. Oh, bullshit.

And I say that as a female. It's bullshit and sexist as hell to believe that the man should ALWAYS pay. I always liked to split the evening. You pay for the dinner, I'll pay to get into the movie theater. Or if I was broke (often the case), I love to cook and would be happy to reciprocate a night out for dinner he paid for with a nice, home-cooked meal. That way the financial burden is never on one person. Besides, I always HATED the macho nacho type. Give me a nice, regular, working-class guy any day.

[Johonny]

15. If your manliness is threaten by a dinner check... I think you've got other issues

men secure in who they are don't need fake acts of stupidity to feel like a man. Tucker is just projecting who he is... not that we didn't know who he is already. For the record, who falls for Bear Grylls tired act anymore besides Tucker?

[quinnox]

16. Tucker wouldn't know manliness if it hit him upside the head

[smirkymonkey]

49. Now there's a face badly in need of a fist!

[name not needed]

58. The Germans have a word for that. Backpfeifengesicht.

[waddirum]

110. see also "Saunauntensitzer"

Saunauntensitzer: One who sits on the lower bench in the sauna, because he/she can not take the heat of the upper bench.

[Sheepshank]

90. THIS is our latent spear hunter? bwahh haa haa haa n/t

[JHB]

125. No, he ditched it after Crossfire finally went belly-up

But your point stands: the present call for male chest-thumping comes from a guy whose gained prominence by being "the one with the bowtie."

[ancianita]

18. Yeah, Tucker's at the top of men's lists of who they should listen to about their responsibilities.

[Android3.14]

19. Said the guy with the bow tie

Tucker opining on machismo is like Ronald McDonald providing advice on child nutrition.

[CurtEastPoint]

20. Tucker's 4 kids: Lillie, Hopie, Dorothy, and Buckley. What has he taught THEM?

And, BTW, Tucker.... great names. Snort. Buckley? Jeez, the kid'll have a complex. Of course, his name is Tucker.

[WillyT]

22. So Are Most Guys Who Wear Bowties...

Except for this guy...

[WillyT]

40. True Dat !!!

[TDale313]

44. Hey, Bow Ties are cool!

Doctor Who told me so. Although not on Tucker Carlson.

[pokerfan]

87. So are fezzes...

[Cartoonist]

72. Not from me

I don't get bow ties. I think they immediately say "clueless nerd" in flashing neon. I respect Bill Nye and Paul Simon, but not their choice of neck wear.

[ebbie15644]

23. Just jelly because NO ONE would pay for his!

[muntrv]

29. So when was the last time Fucker Carlson went hunting?

[Warren DeMontague]

31. With his posse of brokers, He hunted down some tax exempt municipal bonds the other day

[fishwax]

32. He's still around?

Who knew?

[Chellee]

33. Allow?

“Men, who on the second date, let their date pay for dinner, I’m sorry that’s disgusting,” he insisted. “And I don’t care. The new norms are — he shouldn’t allow it. Period.”

You intend to tell a woman what you will ALLOW her to do?

Oh good luck with that.

[Sheepshank]

93. Oh I get it......

how else is his type of man going to justify, ".....well, I paid for it".

[Stargazer09]

94. Exactly

Who gave men the right to determine what women are allowed to do?

[Reter]

115. I personally would never "let" anyone pay on the second date

I don't judge others like he's doing (although I have my own opinions), but it I have had many women argue with me. Unless they somehow get to the waiter first, I always will pay, and never expect anything. Even if I feel she thinks I'm a boring nerd, I'll still pay.

[Tikki]

34. My husband paid my way through University after our children were grown. With my first….

paycheck, after returning to work, I bought him dinner at his restaurant of choice.

It was an amazing feeling.

People like this tucker guy will never know what it is like to be in a loving, respectful partnership with a woman.
I actually pity that person.



Tikki

[Rex]

36. So IOW, Tucker is disgusted by progress.

Foxnews; news fit for the average male cave dweller.

[shenmue]

37. Best DU thread title ever

was this one: (sorry for the all-caps but the original was that way):

'TUCKER CARLSON GO FUCK YOURSELF YOU SCUMBAG.'

[stone space]

38. Wow. Dude's got issues. (nt)

[dgauss]

39. So...

Republicans push policies for decades that lower middle class wages and increase the need for two wage earner households and
Carlson is complaining that the dynamics of "Men are the breadwinners" has changed? He and his party should take at least a little credit for that.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

41. Bow-Tie Boy doesn't ever have to worry

that I might offer to buy him dinner.

I suspect he's compensating for the fact that he spent most of high school getting wedgies and swirlies and being stuffed into his locker.

[SammyWinstonJack]

42. What a crappy life these people must lead having to spew this b.s. daily for their paychecks.

They cant possibly believe this crap.

Spew hate and discontent for a paycheck......now that's disgusting!

[Stargazer09]

95. I think he actually does believe it

I pity the women in his life.

[Shankapotomus]

43. It's emasculating

to have your dinner paid for by a woman but not if it's cooked for you? Weird.

[TDale313]

46. Tucker Carlson is a woman-hating idiot.

Not that that's really news.

[alphafemale]

47. Trading paying for things is less awkward than splitting the check.

Who would want to date a freak with a mentality from 1950?

These people are sad and bizarre.

[GP6971]

48. So, is anyone really surprised by

his comments???? Not me for sure. What a total jerk.

[Blue Owl]

50. Tuckie TieBow's the Tim Tebow of washed-up correspondents

n/t

[appleannie1]

51. Poor baby can't get any woman to warm his bottle.

[sendero]

53. Tucker...

.... couldn't make his woman reach her helter/skelter on his best day. Best to ignore any advice he might have on the subject.

bow tie boy don't cut it.

[Ilsa]

55. I don't think Tucker realizes that most men can't

Afford to hunt. Hunting leases, equipment, travel, licenses, etc all add up. It can be an expensive hobby if you don't live near a hunting area. There are states where hunting on public lands is not permitted.

[Gothmog]

56. Tucker is an idiot

[Hubert Flottz]

61. Nothing is more disgusting than Tucker "The Sucker" Carlson...

Except maybe, Chuck Todd...

[Jemon]

62. Carlson didn't call any woman disgusting

You spun the quote. Re-read and see if you can state what he called disgusting.

[pipi_k]

64. Agree...it looks like

Tucker called the act of men allowing women to pay disgusting, not the women themselves.

[dilby]

65. I guess reading comprehension is no longer taught in schools.

I don't even want to get involved with this, I dislike Tucker but it's not what he said and for people to just bob their heads without actually reading amazes me.

[pipi_k]

71. Yeah, even though the article

bore that title, the content is quite different.

Either people didn't actually read the article, or they did, and still want to believe the worst about him.

Like you, I dislike Tucker Carlson immensely, but there's no reason for intelligent people to put words in his mouth he never actually said.

[Enrique]

66. true

it was Raw Story that spun the quote. Unnecessary spin as well. There's plenty to say about what Tucker actually said, I guess Raw Story felt they needed to juice it up.

[JohnnyRingo]

131. The title assumes no one will read the article....

...and as usual, that assumption is correct.

The original Salon article could even be termed slander. It was meant to raise the ire and clicks of feminists and others who scan for headlines that offend.

Thanx for being reasonable in a sea of knee jerk outrage.

[AtheistCrusader]

63. Bear '10 minutes from my hotel, better drink my pee' Gryllis.

I don't care what he did in the military, that man is a fucking fraud.

If my son turned out like him, I'd be ashamed.

[chrisa]

98. He had blueberry pancakes at a hotel during filming.

His show, while entertaining, was obviously fake and had terrible advice.

[Fearless]

67. What? Even his mother wouldn't eat with him?

[PasadenaTrudy]

68. Women: Tucker Carlson is disgusting n/t

[ronnie624]

69. "Manliness", IMO, is the root cause of violence and oppression.

It seems to me, that the institution of patriarchy has always been the foundation for underpinning militarism. It's no coincidence that societies where women play no role in the social process, with no security and no say in how things are, are always the most violent and brutal.

[OldHippieChick]

70. Maybe it's just me, even though I'm not much of a

conspiracy buff, but this all fits in to the recent Hillary-hate: Benghazi, Monica and feminists. Sarah Palin saying that Hillary will become more pro-life once she is a grandmother. They just can't seem to find enough angles to hate on Hillary and they end up dissing all females, especially those w/ a brain. They are so busy being anti-this and anti-that and full of hate. Please, please let voters see thru their fear-mongering and realize there is no substance to the fear and loathing.

[yuiyoshida]

73. And Yet the Cheap Bastard would probably

accept dinner at McDonald's from any lady friend. Hmmm....I wonder if he hated his Mother for buying him Shoes for School?

[NCTraveler]

74. Something tells me...

Something tells me that after Tucker pays for the meal he feels he is "owed". Asshole.

[americannightmare]

75. Will I live long enough to see the day...

when we no longer hear this crapola from the media and so-called leaders? Yet another reason not to watch television...

[riverbendviewgal]

76. Carlson is pleasing his base

old people with ideas set in the 40s and 50s...FOX Is OLD NEWS full of old wives tales and myths

[d_b]

77. nothing screams manly man

like a doughy yuppie in a bowtie

is this real life?

[truebrit71]

79. You mean Bear Grylls the faker..?

I cannot imagine how manly one would have to be to survive in that sort of situation...



Oh and Fucker Carlson is just pissed because he can't get women to go to dinner with him even if he PAID them...

[russspeakeasy]

103. + 1 and thanks for the laughs.

[yellowcanine]

80. "...relying on technology instead of “your spear, your brains, your resourcefulness, your courage.”

Yeah right, and how many hunters are using spears? Even the ones using bows are using high tech compound bows. And of course there is nothing low tech about a modern hunting rifle.

[yellowcanine]

81. Tucker being such a "manly man" of course.

[Turbineguy]

82. He can say that.

But I happen to like such disgusting women!

[Shrike47]

83. Poor Tucker. What a loser.

Does he choose their dinner for women, too?

[Gothmog]

84. Tucker is an idiot

This is dumb even for Tucker.

[Shrike47]

85. He's been married since 1991. What does he know about dating?

[Ikonoklast]

121. He asks his wife when she comes back from going out on one.

With a Real Man® .

[Iggo]

88. Fuck you, Tucker Carlson.

[Sheepshank]

89. Yah, the neanderthal is in full decline

and no amount of wishing brut force makes the XY members of the population the top of any food/relevancy chain, will work. Women no longer need a hyper-surge of testoterone-y yahoos to live and enjoy life and choose a partner. There are more subtle personality issues that have evolved as the game changer for getting married, laid, or even acknowledged.

idiot.

[They_Live]

96. Tucker Carlson: ‘Disgusting’

I decided to shorten the headline, in the interest of saving space (and time).

[Doctor Loveless]

97. Yea

Tucker wants a man to buy him dinner and breakfast yea.

[Helen Borg]

99. Thing is... Tucker always comes across a major coward/wimp.

[Avalux]

100. Maybe because a woman's never wanted to pay for his dinner.

Sorry Tucker, I never would, nor would I agree to dinner in the first place.

The stuff they're selling on Faux News is really disturbing.

[Swede Atlanta]

101. Does Tucker not know that the world has moved on in the past few years?

Does he not know that women outnumber and outperform men in secondary education and that law schools are turning out more women lawyers than men?

I only point that out because there are many heterosexual households where the woman earns more, and in some cases significantly more, than the man.

There are some households that, for a variety of reasons, decide to have the man either leave the workforce to stay home and raise the children while they are young and take care of the home or work reduced hours to provide more time for nurture and care.

I doubt that the women in those households would agree that their male mates are any less manly or sexy because of these facts. I doubt that the men in those situations would consider themselves emasculated or in any way less a man.

Tucker needs to get out more in the real world. And for one I would love to see him try to spear anything. That would be hilarious.

[PumpkinAle]

102. I guess that is why Tucker has friends that own brothels

just another little prick trying to get something for nothing.

[tanyev]

104. Yeah, Tucker's an expert on being macho.

[lululu]

105. no woman ever offered to pay for his dinner.

They'd probably pay NOT to have dinner with him.

[PeoViejo]

106. Trying to compensate for a tiny Dick is a pointless exercise

..but, there are people willing to take their Money and outfit them with a 'Manly' Penis substitute for every occasion.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

107. I picture Tucker sitting alone at a table waiting for a date that never shows.

[Ikonoklast]

108. Trust Fund He-Man.

Soft hands.

Never wanted for anything a day in his life.


He'd cry if he did what I have to do for a living just one week.

[Thor_MN]

109. Has that little Tucker ever been hunting? I kinda doubt it.

[Initech]

111. I'm guessing that he hasn't been on a date in a long time!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

112. Let's expand on that Tucker

Anyone who'd pay for your dinner is disgusting.

[JPK]

113. Tucker Carlson......

...Cub reporter for the Daily Planet.

[demtenjeep]

117. little fucker tucker

is disgusting

[Jasana]

119. I don't know who he is but he is disgusting!

I always go dutch on my dates. Always. At least until we may become "a thing." Then it's okay to pay back and forth. That's how I roll. No idiotards will change my mind.

[mackerel]

120. I wonder if Carlson's man cave has a billiard table?

[davidn3600]

122. I remember years ago....

...I was in a restaurant and noticed the couple at a table across from me were getting into an argument. It was a man and a woman and apparently on a date. For the entire time they were there they talked but didn't hear much and didnt pay attention. But before they were about to leave, they started fighting over the check. I can't remember the whole thing but she wanted to pay half and he didnt want to let her. They weren't getting physical or anything like that but he was creating a scene over it. I can't imagine that relationship lasted much longer.

I guess it's sort of like how SOME guys feel their ego is threatened if the wife makes more money than they do. And it stems from gender roles. It makes the guy feel macho and dominant and has power over the woman.

Also I think some guys are worried about what a woman would think of them if they don't pay for the whole date. They may feel like the woman might not respect them.

[edbermac]

123. A woman once paid for my dinner at Olive Garden.

Which I guess is doubly disgusting.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

124. For a number of reasons, my wife is in charge of our family finances.

So every time we go out to dinner, she pays. I do not feel unmanned because of this.

I suppose that Carlson would also consider me unmanly because (1) I have never gone hunting, (b) the last time I fished was in 1962 and (iii) I do all the cooking, the laundry and much of the cleaning in my household and (? my wife does most of the driving. Funny, but I don't feel that I have to prove my masculinity to anyone.

[HockeyMom]

126. He better not lose his job

and need his wife to support him. Forget some stupid little dinner, Tucker. Would he beg on the streets just to keep his sense of masculinity?

[blackspade]

127. Carlson is a pathetic dickbag.

Manliness indeed.....
He needs to leave social science to those of us that actually understand it....

[burnsei sensei]

128. I would call such women charitable.

Since when is that disgusting?

[Blue Owl]

129. He's always got his buddy Tal Fartgag

n/t

[JohnnyRingo]

130. Carlson didn't say any women are "disgusting".

The bow tie doesn't pay me to cover his ass for him, but that title is as misleading and incendiary as anything Huffington Post ever dreamed up to attact clicks. The original Salon title could even be seen as slander.

What Carlson said was: “Men, who on the second date, let their date pay for dinner, I’m sorry that’s disgusting,” . I'm no fan of Carlson, but that in no way says that he thinks women are disgusting. If anything, he's criticizing the men who cede to what he sees as new age social norms.

Shameful journalism purposely crafted to stoke feminist ire. It assumes no one will actually read the article, and apparently very few people do.

[pipi_k]

133. That sort of thing

seems to be evolving into the "norm" these days.

I call it the "National Enquirer" syndrome.

You know...that piece of shit waste of paper found near the checkout aisles in the grocery stores.

Always a sensational headline!!!

But the story turns out to be something quite different.

Except I guess its only saving grace, if there is one, is that people who buy it regularly must know that the actual stories are not going to live up to the hype. But they buy it anyway. Maybe in the hopes that someday they WILL find Elvis alive and well, living in the jungles of the Amazon with some primitive tribes...


Here, unfortunately, we have misleading headlines, and as long as the headline supports or reinforces someone's belief, it doesn't really matter what the article says.

and yeah...it's not just the Right doing this shit. Gotta keep the misguided outrage going on the Left as well.

yech.

[JohnnyRingo]

141. I think it capitalizes on the fact that people don't read.

Anyone who's ever posted an original thread in DU suspects as much, and there's a lot of truth to it.

Patton Oswalt sent out a tweet this week apologizing for something he never said. He then sat back and waited for the outrage from people who really had no idea what he was talking about, but still had to weigh in on how offended they were ...and it came in spades.

If it weren’t so hilarious it would be depressing. A little earlier this afternoon Patton Oswalt began trolling Twitter and the rest of the internet, trying to drum up outrage over nothing. Literally, nothing.

What he did was simple: He started posting tweets that referenced and apologized for tweets he says he deleted because they were offensive, but of course the “deleted tweets” weren’t real. They never were. So this is what his feed looked like:

http://thedailybanter.com/2014/05/patton-oswalt-brilliantly-trolls-twitter/

[Jemon]

135. People want to be entertained, not informed

Sad but true.

[IronLionZion]

144. That's how news travels now in the internet age

its all about getting clicks, not accuracy. This is true now even of mainstream media sites like cnn.

[nilesobek]

132. I see the greasy hunters everyday

at my cashier job. They load up on energy drinks, coffee, beer, gasoline for their trucks and 4-wheelers, cigarettes and lots of chewing tobacco. To this they add piles of gas station breakfast sandwiches and pastries. The zoot suits they wear have to be worth $500. The trucks are worth 20-40k or even more. The rifles must be worth thousands.

How does Gryllis relate this hunting culture to anything macho? The actual hunt does not seem to be the goal, its more of an outing and some photo ops. If they kill one of our furry friends along the way its a bonus.

I am completely disgusted with their commentary even if it was slightly misrepresented. Advice to fellow men: Do not take this advice, they have no idea what women want. Their women are probably just bored with them.

[nxylas]

136. I'll admit it, I don't rely on my spear

That's because I don't live in the fucking neolithic.

[elzenmahn]

137. Oh, blow it out of your lower oriface, BOWTIE BOY!

[uppityperson]

138. A MAN letting a GIRL pay for dinner? wtf. No, there is no innate need to be the caveman

[savannah43]

139. How many dinners has your Mommy bought you, F...Tucker?

Do you think this gasbag knows that the only reason he isn't working at a convenience store is his mother's influence?
BTW, what self-respecting woman with a brain would go to dinner with this mama's boy? None!

[lunatica]

140. That's hysterical!!

Tucker's manliness is threatened and in peril! It was bad enough when everyone laughed at him for his girly bow ties. Now they want to see him hunting! I bet Sarah Palin could beat him up!

LOL!

[IronLionZion]

145. I think such women are strong, independent, and confident.

Which of you lovely ladies wants to buy me dinner? I like fair trade, grass fed, sustainable, and organic, btw...

[TNNurse]

146. Tucker Carlson

Is a twit!!!

[stuartsdesk1]

147. So Why Doesn't Bear Grylls Face a Lion with a Spear? Come On Bear - Show Us Your Stuff

Years ago, Maasai warriors showed us what real courage and manliness were when they faced a male lion with
only a spear - and no back-up shooters. Thankfully, we now have a greater appreciation and empathy for our fellow
creatures and an understanding of the need to preserve diversity of all species. Those brutal, nonsensical days are
mostly past history.

But we still have "he-men" like Mr. "Bear" Grylls (actually Mr. Edward Michael Grylls) who purport to show us
how a real man should act.

Why doesn't Mr. Grylls give us a real demonstration of "manliness", like the young Maasai men did?

Let him approach a wild, African, male lion in the bush with only a spear for defense. Could he hold his ground for 5 minutes?

If he passes the test, I'll buy him dinner. (Unless, of course, he has already become dinner.)

[classof56]

148. Oh, this is classic! Back in my day...

Pre-feminist era, mind you, I had several male colleagues tell me "girls" didn't need to make as much as men for the same job, 'cause we could always find a "guy" to take us out to dinner. Plus, we could of course, live with our parents or share an apartment with five other "girls", thus we needed less income. There was more, of course--we are talkin' 50s mentality--but I'll quit now by simply saying, "Tucker, you are an ignoramus and a complete asshole." Now there's a word no "well-bred girl" would use back in the 50s, no matter how much we thought it!

[SoonerShankle]

149. While it is easy to make fun of Carlson...

...a more disturbing issue arises from his verbal diarrhea--that this kind of misguided, sexist, and borderline misogynistic rant is considered viable on national news channel is beyond the pale (and no, I'm not giving them the "But it's Fox" excuse). Gender issues for both sexes are very real and much more complex than this segment would ever touch. There is no doubt that this segment was intended for the express purpose of perpetuating discriminatory behavior based upon gender.

And while many feel the term "man up" (or "woman up"--yes, I've heard and used it too) may mean that the man is being emasculated, they've got it all wrong. It is a term implying lack of maturity. It says quit being a little boy and act like the mature man that you are. Saying "man up" to a child is inappropriate, but asking an adult to act like an adult is not.

And then the woman in the segment, Ms. Smith, ineptly and half-heartedly tries to integrate machismo into the conversation. Thanks, but no thanks, for the token non-argument.

While I could laugh at Carlson's silly bow-tie, it is his seriously misguided rant about gender roles in our society that only goes to show how far some (ok, how far Fox) will go to legitimize bashing women.

[damnedifIknow]

150. He just overflows with conservatism

Come into this century Tuck.