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Ohio Senator and Donald Trump's running mate J.D. Vance is again facing backlash over his involvement in a conservation about the role of the "postmenopausal female."
In a resurfaced clip from an April 2020 appearance on "The Portal" podcast, Vance agreed with host Eric Weinstein's claim that grandmothers, or women too old to have kids of their own, exist to help raise their grandchildren.
Weinstein noted that helping the younger generation take care of their kids is "the whole purpose of the menopausal female," to which Vance agreed.
At another point during the podcast, the two discussed how the mother of Vance's wife, Usha, lived with the couple for a year after their first son was born. Vance also co-signed Weinstein's notion that living with the grandmother was a "weird, unadvertised feature of marrying an Indian woman.”
The Ohio Senator noted that his mother-in-law was a biology professor who took a year off to help raise the child.
"It’s just one of these things that…this is what you do," Vance said.
Vance's resurfaced comments sparked backlash on social media.
"This dude is disgusting. He wants women as free labor until we drop. No thanks. Stop demanding women be caregivers. I don’t want that job, one X user tweeted.
"Vance seems to consider women to be use objects, which are defective if they don't perform the functions men like Vance want them to perform," another social media user wrote.
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