Watch Pete Buttigieg explain why women shouldn't vote for one of their more qualified sisters

It’s been fun to watch the Left’s obsession with “intersectionality” play out in the Democratic primary fight. Eric Swalwell, currently polling at 0 percent, just can’t stop apologizing for being a white man, but he promises he’ll 1) pass the mic to marginalized voices, 2) select a woman to be his vice president (if he can find one desperate enough), and 3) change a diaper every now and then.

You’d think Pete Buttigieg, who is gay, would have an easier time of it, but as Twitchy has reported, there have been a few worried think pieces from progressives wondering if Buttigieg isn’t really, you know, gay: he’s married, he goes to church, he dresses like a dork. He might as well be a straight man.

So at an MSNBC town hall Monday night, Buttigieg found himself in the awkward position of explaining why women should vote for another white man instead of any of the (more qualified) women nominees:

Question: "Why should the women of America vote for you instead of our sisters, who are kind of more qualified?"

Buttigieg: “We ought to have a woman in the Oval Office right now. I’m still disappointed that didn’t happen.”

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— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) June 3, 2019

Yeah, bro, we’re all heartbroken Hillary didn’t win, but that’s not the question. Why should women vote for you over another woman, especially if you wish we had a female president right now?

So drop out https://t.co/r9dhXBcnwr

— Ben McDonald (@Bmac0507) June 3, 2019

then endorse one, Pete, and get out of the way –

— t (@xb7) June 3, 2019

EYE-ROLL. Vote for substance, not inherited anatomical traits. If you agree with his policies and you like his delivery more than any others, then vote for him. If you don’t, then don’t. But asking him to change his netherparts through oratory demeans you both.

— Cognitive Dissident (@AJBullX) June 4, 2019

Sisters? Qualified? Who?

— Mary Lugo (@Justice_Denied_) June 3, 2019

Um, Kirstin Gillibrand? Marianne Williamson?

Let’s vote for a woman because I am a fat woman. It’s science

— Christopher D'Angelo (@dudebro86) June 4, 2019

We had a woman in the Oval office. She was named Monica.

— Barbara Barber (@suesuesbeo9) June 4, 2019

Where’s my barf ? bag ?

— Von ? (@54Ange) June 3, 2019

I want to puke.

— Patricia Johnson (@DiDiJo41) June 4, 2019

What a putz

— BitKing Jr. (@cryptoMcfIy) June 4, 2019

Stupid answer

— SLΞDGΞHAMMΞR (@zeroinscw) June 3, 2019

Brace yourself for more disappointment….

— Daisy Belle (@DaisyBelleLace) June 4, 2019

In a feminized society a candidate's best chance of being elected is to be cowed by screeching harpies with no self-restraint. No confidence, no virile manliness: just apologies and surrender.

— F. Pendleton (@FRPen1) June 4, 2019

Umm – so why should women vote for a white man running on the Dem ticket again?

— 0penb00k (@0penth3b00ks) June 4, 2019

That didn’t really answer the question now, did it?

— #ReleaseTheIGReport! (@AmyBlondell) June 4, 2019

That’s an answer, just not to the question he was asked.

— DFish (@DFish14127) June 4, 2019

Related:

TIME cover picturing the Buttigieg ‘first family’ is a display of ‘heterosexuality without women’ https://t.co/bU4ReAoo2x

— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 21, 2019