In the interview, Parnell said “the whole happy wife, happy life nonsense has done nothing but raise one generation of women tyrants after the next.”

“The idea that a woman doesn’t need a man to be successful, the idea that a woman doesn’t need a man to have a baby, the idea that a woman can live a happy and fulfilling life without a man, I think it’s all nonsense,” Parnell said at the time, according to the Pittsburgh City Paper. ** He later tweeted that he doesn’t “believe a woman can’t be successful w/out a man” and that the program was “a tongue-in-cheek comedy show.”**

Of course he did