May. 5 2015

What the actual fuck was Steve Harvey doing at a local public high school?

#steve harvey#seattle#public schools#sexism#misogyny#homophobia

This is Steve Harvey. He is a “comedian” and a talk-show host. He is also a confirmed misogynist and homophobe. 

In April, he spoke at Garfield High School, a public high school, about, among other things, how God hid the vagina because he wants boys to have to go hunting for it or something. 

Here’s his talk.

Local news outlets proceeded to praise the performance, calling it “dead on” and Harvey a “smart aleck.” Seattle Refined even complimented Harvey on his calling out of sexism which is ironic considering Steve Harvey is basically the human embodiment of long-held misogynist ideas.


They did not mention how Harvey has, on multiple occasions, called individuals who are not Christians “idiots,” how he believes that men and women can never be friends, how he believes that literally no women like sports, how he believes that a woman’s chief interest should be “finding a man,” or how he has made his career preaching outdated, harmful ideas that are straight out of the Rape Culture Handbook.

Here’s an actual Steve Harvey quote:

“One of the biggest misconceptions that a woman has is that a man has to accept her the way she is. No, we don’t. I don’t know who told you that. We like the bright and shiny. If you stop wearing the makeup, stop putting on nail polish, stop wearing high heels, you’ll lose us.”

Seems like a legit lesson to teach young women, non?

There are no shortage of people who would be great to speak in front of Seattle public school kids. Those who don’t uphold pretty gross values of slut-shaming and “traditional” binary gender relations. We really, really wish Garfield had picked one of those. At a time when teenage girls are already way overly sexualized (hello, dress codes), this is not what high schoolers need to hear. 

We’ve reached out to Seattle Public Schools to see who, if anyone, paid for this engagement (because if it was a our tax dollars, we want a refund). They’re proving hard to reach, as literally every email address provided has bounced back and multiple phone numbers from the Seattle Public Schools offices has resulted in an answering machine or just kind of waiting around with no promise of an answer.

UPDATE! Seattle Public Schools assured us (over Twitter) that the engagement didn’t cost any taxpayer money. We’re still trying to figure out why any adult human thought it was a good idea. 

Huge H/T to Casey Jaywork who brought this to our attention. 

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    He’s such a dick.
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    Man, fuck this guy.
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