Now JD Vance is accused of insulting all “postmenopausal” women

Senator JD Vance made a number of bizarre remarks in a resurfaced 2020 podcast interview. At one point, for example, he seemed to agree with the show's host that “the whole point of being a postmenopausal woman” is to help raise grandchildren.

Between discussions about racial science, biological determinism and questions about the size of the male and female brain, Vance tells Eric Weinstein, host of The portal Podcast, a story about how his wife Usha's mother dropped everything to take care of her newborn son.

“It makes him a much better person,” Vance says of his son’s interactions with his grandparents.

Weinstein goes on to say that “the only purpose of a postmenopausal woman” is to help raise children.

Vance can be heard saying “yes” shortly after Weinstein says the word “postmenopausal.”

However, a spokesperson for Donald Trump's vice presidential candidate strongly denied that Vance agreed with the moderator. He told the Daily Beast: “The media is fraudulently putting words in JD's mouth – of course he disagrees with what the moderator said.”

“JD reacted to the first part of the moderator's sentence and assumed he was saying, 'That's the whole point of spending time with the grandparents,'” said Vance's spokeswoman Taylor Van Kirk. “It's a shame the media is lying about JD instead of holding Kamala Harris accountable for her policies that have led to astronomically high prices for food and everyday items, a disaster at the southern border and a historic epidemic of drug overdoses.”

Immediately after his comment about “postmenopausal” women, Weinstein said that having a grandmother to help you raise children was a “weird, unheralded aspect of marrying an Indian woman,” to which Vance replied, “Yes.”

“In a way [it is] the most cross-border thing I have ever done against the hyper-neoliberal approach to work and family,” he added.

These comments are just the latest furore stemming from Vance's past comments about women.

He had previously come under fire for calling Democratic women unfortunate “childless cat ladies” who were bankrupting the country. Vance also courted controversy when he called people without children “sociopaths” and “psychotics” during an appearance on right-wing podcast host Chris Buskirk's show in 2020.

“There are just these basic rhythms of life that I think are very powerful and very valuable when you have children in your life,” Vance said during the podcast. “And the fact that so many people, especially in America's leadership class, just don't have that in their lives.”

Vance also railed against Harris, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, her running mate and Senator Cory Booker for “building a political movement that is theoretically invested in the future of this country, even though not one of them actually shows a physical commitment.”

Usha herself supported Vance after the comments and told the co-host of Fox & Friends Ainsley Earhardt during an appearance on the show on August 5, “The truth is that he wanted to make a witty comment to make a substantive point that had real significance.

“What he really wanted to say is that being a parent in this country can be really hard,” she said.