The Guardian reports:
The White House rebuked the Republican former vice-president Mike Pence on Monday, for making jokes about US transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg, maternity leave and postpartum depression that it said were homophobic and offensive to women.
“He should apologise to women and LGBTQ+ people,” said Joe Biden’s press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre. Saying the secretary had taken “maternity leave” from his job, Pence added: “Pete is the only person in human history to have a child and everyone else gets postpartum depression.”
On Monday Jean-Pierre said: “The former vice-president’s homophobic joke about Secretary Buttigieg was offensive and inappropriate, all the more so because he treated women suffering from postpartum depression as a punchline.”
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An honest question for you, @Mike_Pence, after your attempted joke this weekend. If your grandchild was born prematurely and placed on a ventilator at two months old – their tiny fingers wrapped around yours as the monitors beep in the background – where would you be? pic.twitter.com/pCWvl8pb5N
— Chasten Buttigieg (@Chasten) March 13, 2023
I’ll leave this here for you should you want to know more about the kids you are so eager to use as a punchline. https://t.co/CUokmPXfgz
— Chasten Buttigieg (@Chasten) March 13, 2023