In Another Resurfaced Clip, Vance Dismisses 'Miserable' Women Without Children

Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance again described women who prioritize their careers as “miserable,” and slammed Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) for her “ingratitude” as a Somali immigrant, on a right-wing podcast in 2021.

Vance made the comments, which were first reported on by The Guardian and Media Matters for America, on a newly resurfaced episode of a podcast produced by American Moment, a partner of the group behind the far-right policy plan known as Project 2025.

Asked why he viewed elite institutions like Yale University as “corrupt,” Vance reiterated his feelings about women who don’t have kids.

“You have women who think that truly, the liberationist path is to spend 90 hours a week working in a cubicle at McKinsey, instead of starting a family and having children,” he said.

He continued: “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.”

When a host asked him where “gender and racial resentment” comes from, Vance adopted the perspective of a hypothetical progressive.

“Clearly, this value set has made me a miserable person, who can’t have kids because I already passed the biological period when it was possible,” Vance said. “And I live in a 1,200 sq ft apartment in New York and I pay $5,000 a month for it. But I’m really better than these other people. What I’m going to do is project my racial and gender sensitivities on the rest of them.”

Vance also took the opportunity to take a dig at Omar while speaking about migrants, saying that the Minnesota Democrat has shown “a complete lack of gratitude” towards the