The main problem is that he was a weasel by lying about it and playing the “hysterical woman” card against one of his peers. He also disagreed with her by calling her “disgusting” and “out of her mind,” in addition to everything else he said.

Calling Trump a motherfucker isn’t a sexist slur. It’s an insult, yes, but it isn’t equivalent to what happened here.

Yoho handled it like a real shitheel.

Why is it OK for men to casually use abusive, misogynistic, racist tropes toward women of color? Especially when they work together? Then lie about doing it? And then twist an “apology” into another insult? Sounds kinda Trumpian if ya ask me.

Why defend toxic misogyny at all?

Mr. Yoho mentioned that he has a wife and two daughters. I am two years younger than Mr. Yoho’s youngest daughter. I am someone’s daughter too. My father, thankfully, is not alive to see how Mr. Yoho treated his daughter. My mother got to see Mr. Yoho’s disrespect on the floor of this House towards me on television. And I am here because I have to show my parents that I am their daughter and that they did not raise me to accept abuse from men. Now, what I am here to say is that this harm that Mr. Yoho levied, tried to levy against me, was not just an incident directed at me.

But when you do that to any woman, what Mr. Yoho did was give permission to other men to do that to his daughters. In using that language in front of the press, he gave permission to use that language against his wife, his daughters, women in his community, and I am here to stand up to say that is not acceptable.

She has a point. And I’m not sure why Yoho would be OK with any of it if it was directed toward his own family. But I’m not Yoho, so.