What on earth was Michelle Obama trying to say about men?

Published November 3, 2017 7:32pm ET



Michelle Obama is taking some heat for recent remarks she made on gender, but I’m struggling to muster outrage given the sheer incoherence of what she actually said.

At an Obama Foundation event on Wednesday, the former first lady rambled perplexingly about masculinity and how young boys are socialized to understand it. “It’s like the problem in the world today is we love our boys and we raise our girls. We raise them to be strong, and sometimes we take care not to hurt men. And I think we pay for that a little bit,” she said.

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