'A path to misery': J.D. Vance rants against working women in newly unearthed podcast

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) is facing even more scrutiny about his attitude towards women with the Guardian reporting that he launched an attack against professional women in a newly unearthed 2021 podcast.

As the Guardian's Jason Wildon reported on Saturday morning, Donald Trump's vice presidential running mate made the comments on the podcast that was uploaded to YouTube in September of 2021, where, besides complaining about women pursuing careers, he also attacked Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).

According to the report, Vance claimed women who choose careers over having children are headed down a "path to misery."

In particular he pointed to some of his female classmates at Yale Law School, and said of them that they were, "pursuing racial or gender equity is like the value system that gives their life meaning … [but] they all find that that value system leads to misery”.

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The report notes that 39 minutes into the podcast, the Ohio Republican stated, "What they don’t realize – and I think some of them do eventually realize that, thank God – is that that is actually a path to misery. And the path to happiness and to fulfillment is something that these institutions are telling people not to do."

“The corruption is it puts people on a career pipeline that causes them to chase things that will make them miserable and unhappy,” he added. “And so they get in positions of power and then they project that misery and unhappiness on the rest of society.”

The Guardian's Wildon added, "Now this latest recording raises renewed questions about Vance’s contribution to the Republican ticket, which is trailing behind Kamala Harris and her bid to be America’s first woman of color president."

You can read more of Vance's comments here.