ICYMI: John Gibbs Said America “Suffered” Because Women Were Allowed To Vote

Yesterday, a report from CNN revealed that NRCC-backed MI-03 candidate John Gibbs founded a "think tank" that criticized giving women the right to vote. Gibbs' organization, the "Society for the Critique of Feminism," argued that "women did not 'posess (sic) the characteristics necessary to govern,'" called for "a patriarchal society run by men," and "actively argued against women being granted the right to vote." Gibbs even claimed that men are smarter than women because men are more likely to "think logically about broad and abstract ideas in order to deduce a suitable conclusion, without relying upon emotional reasoning."

On his site, Gibbs continued to voice his beliefs, saying, "We conclude that increasing the size and scope of government is unequivocally bad,.. and since women's suffrage has caused this to occur on a larger scale than any other cause in history, we conclude that the United States has suffered as a result of women's suffrage."

Read more about Gibbs' outrageous stance below.

CNN: GOP congressional candidate said US suffered from women's suffrage and praised organization trying to repeal 19th Amendment
By Andrew Kaczynski
September 21, 2022

• A Michigan candidate for the US House backed by former President Donald Trump once railed against giving women the right to vote, arguing that America has "suffered" since women's suffrage.

• John Gibbs, who defeated in the primary an incumbent Republican who had voted to impeach Trump, also made comments in the early 2000s praising an organization trying to repeal the 19th Amendment which also argued that women's suffrage had made the United States into a "totalitarian state."

• Gibbs requested the website for the think tank be removed from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine in 2016, according to a spokesman for the Internet Archive. But CNN's KFile reviewed it on a different archiving service.

• On the site, Gibbs actively argued against women being granted the right to vote, saying it led to an enlarged federal government.

• "Some argue that in a democratic society, it is hypocritical or unjust for women, who are 50% of the population, not to have the vote," Gibbs' website read. "This is obviously not true, since the founding fathers, who understood liberty and democracy better than anyone, did not believe so. In addition, all people under age 18 cannot vote, although they too comprise a significant portion of the population. So we cannot say that women should be able to vote simply because they are a large part of the population."

• The Society for the Critique of Feminism was cited by other anti-feminist websites, including on anti-feminist and conspiracy website Father's Manifesto. Father's Manifesto, which was operated by the Christian Party, had a petition to repeal the 19th Amendment. Gibbs twice praised the organization in comments hosted on their website and linked to them from his own website.

• One section of Gibbs' website said having more women in workplaces "strains" men by keeping them from making offensive jokes and leading to "frivilous" (sic) sexual harassment lawsuits.

• Gibbs' website also said having more women in the workplace affected chemistry and led to less qualified employees.