My comments about women running for president were unequivocally insensitive and wrong. I sincerely apologize to everyone I offended.
-- T.I. (@Tip) October 13, 2015Update: T.I. has responded with this meaningless apology, tweeting that his remarks were "insensitive" and apologizing to anyone he offended, which should be pretty much everyone. This is some bullshit, and throwing up 140 characters of PR garbage doesn't make it any less bullshit.
"Just because, every other position that exists, I think a woman could do well. But, the president? It's kinda like, I just know that women make rash decisions emotionally -- they make very permanent, cemented decisions -- and then later, it's kind of like it didn't happen, or they didn't mean for it to happen. And I sure would hate to just set off a nuke."
Congrats T.I.! If there are people who actually care about your inane opinion, they are learning to internalize sexism from your "just saying" posture that takes received conventional wisdom-slash-bullshit and turns it into "truth telling" because it rightfully makes people upset. Hopefully, no one actually does care.
It's really too bad that T.I. keeps putting his foot in his mouth (or just opening his mouth, period) like this, since he's actually been putting out some pretty good music lately. Of course, we all know T.I. would be a better president than any women, since he has never made a stupid decision. [via EW]