“I think that she is currently a woman. I cannot confirm for you that she has been a woman her entire life. My guess is that at some point she had some form of surgery. Have you seen this chick?”He also described her as a “beast,” an “animal,” a “monster” and a “sasquatch of a woman.”
Many are focusing on the overt sexism of Kaplan's comments but it is the egregious dehumanization that offends me equally.
What makes these comments disheartening is that Scott Kaplan has a daughter (or 2?) as does his co-host Billy Ray Smith.
I can only imagine if my daughters were ever described in such a way. I'm pretty sure I would cry. And I don't think that's overreacting. Nor is it being overly sensitive. It's simply a matter of common decency. A sense of decency that is often absent when Scott Kaplan speaks about women or to women on the airwaves.
It is a difficult time to lose a job but in the end we are all accountable. As it should be.
