Ayanna Pressley Lectured on Women’s Rights — Brandon Gill Asked One Question That Ended the Conversation

The House Oversight Committee held a hearing on DEI in American institutions Tuesday, and Ayanna Pressley showed up ready to deliver the standard progressive lecture: Republicans hate women, minorities, and equality. Republicans just want to take America backward. Republicans won’t sign onto her Equal Rights Amendment because Republicans are the real bigots.

Brandon Gill had one question. “Does it define what a woman is?”

Pressley didn’t answer. She repeated twice, with the brittle cheerfulness of someone who knows they’ve just stepped on a rake, that she looked forward to his signing on. Gill responded