Missouri GOP Senate candidate slams 'feminist she-devils' with 'nasty, snake-filled heads'

A Missouri man running for U.S. Senate is under fire for controversial comments about women's rights.

Courtland Sykes, a Republican who hopes to replace Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill in the U.S. Senate, called feminists "nasty snake-filled heads," in a Facebook post meant to clarify his stance on women's rights. 

"In light of recent questions regarding my views on Women's Rights, attached is my full statement from September 2017," Sykes said on his Facebook page. 

In the statement, Sykes said he supports women's rights because his fiancée Chanel Rion has given him "orders" to favor them. But, that support isn't free, Sykes notes.  

"Chanel knows that my obedience comes with a small price that she loves to pay anyway: I want to come home to a home-cooked dinner at six every night, one that she fixes and one that I expect one day to have daughters learn to fix after they become traditional homemakers and family wives — think Norman Rockwell here and Gloria Steinem be damned," he said in the statement.

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In the statement, Sykes goes on to say that he supports women's rights, but not the "mean-spirited radical feminists."

"I don't buy into radical feminism's crazed definition of modern womanhood and I never did. They don't own that definition — and never did. They made it up to suit their own nasty, snake-filled heads," he said. "Modern women can BE anything they want, including traditional women — as millions are and millions are fast becoming. Millennial women voters despised Hillary (Clinton) and cost her the election (and they weren't Russians). I wonder why they despise her? One reason is they look at her life's personal wreckage and din't want to become like her."

Sykes hopes that if he has daughters they too will forgo the traps of "radical feminism" in favor of a life at home. 

"I don't want them [to] grow up into career obsessed banshees who forego home life and children and the happiness of family to become nail-biting manophobic hell-bent feminist she-devils," he said.