February 17, 2023 by Jeannie Edmunds · Activism

Hey, Don Lemon, Who You Calling “Not Prime”?

Don Lemon's extraordinarily stupid comments about Nikki Haley (and women in general) are a shining example of sexist ageism. Stop it already.

Prime seating at a sports event might be courtside at the Lakers. A prime cut of meat is better quality and more expensive. But a woman is in her “prime” when she’s in her “20s, 30s, or maybe 40s,” according to Don Lemon. He’s an authority on this because he looked it up on Google.

Here we go again. A man in a prime position (who was recently moved out of prime time to the morning news slot on CNN) commenting on the perceived value of a woman in the public eye.

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