Yesterday, HuffPost exposed Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson, North Carolina’s GOP gubernatorial nominee, for his long history of demeaning women, including saying he’d “absolutely” want to return to an America where women weren’t allowed to vote.
“Lt. Gov. Robinson’s pattern of degrading women is disgusting and should be disqualifying,” said Tiffany Muller, President of End Citizens United // Let America Vote. “There’s never a reason to want to return to an America where women cannot participate in democracy. Being a governor means representing all of your constituents—not spewing hateful rhetoric and daydreaming about stripping away their rights. North Carolina women deserve a governor who actually respects them and will continue to fight for our rights, and that’s Attorney General Josh Stein.”
Jennifer Bendery
03/06/24
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On Tuesday, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson won the GOP primary to become his party’s nominee for North Carolina governor, presumably with the help of female voters.
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“I absolutely want to go back to the America where women couldn’t vote,” Robinson said in a newly resurfaced video of his remarks at a March 2020 event hosted by the Republican Women of Pitt County.
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During this event, Robinson, who was running for lieutenant governor at the time, recalled someone recently asking conservative activist Candace Owens to pick which version of America would make America “great again,” one where “Black people were swinging from cheap trees” or one where women weren’t allowed to vote.
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Robinson said he would definitely return to the days in America when women were denied the right to vote “because in those days we had people who fought for real social change, and they were called Republicans.”
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The North Carolina Republican’s longing for the days when women couldn’t vote ties into his history of demeaning women and mocking feminism, especially on social media. He’s claimed that feminism was created by Satan. He’s said that men who identify as feminists are “about as MANLY as a pair of lace panties” and are “weak mined, jelly backed ‘men.’” He’s routinely referred to feminists as “fem-nazis” and, in one particularly colorful post, described those who support equal rights for women as “sexist, hairy armpit having, poo-poo hat wearing pinkos.”
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“The only thing worse than a woman who doesn’t know her place, is a man who doesn’t know his,” he wrote on Facebook in December 2017.
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Channeling the late televangelist Pat Robertson, he has claimed that Satan himself is using “lesbianism and feminism” to destroy traditional families.
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In still more Facebook posts, the GOP gubernatorial nominee strangely equated feminism with sexism and racism.
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That same day, he also wrote, “I am REALLY sick of feminism and feminist. They are just as bad, if not worse, than racist.”
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There’s plenty more to revisit with Robinson’s attacks on women, including calling them “whores,” “witches” and “rejected drag queens.” There’s also his record of quoting Adolf Hitler, fanning Islamophobia, saying trans people should be arrested for using bathrooms, casting doubts on the Holocaust and spreading countless dangerous conspiracy theories.
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He has criticized women who breastfeed in public, too.
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“Shameless attention hogs,” Robinson posted on Facebook in 2016.
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Robinson will go up against Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein in November.
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