What specific misogynistic quotes has Charlie Kirk said and when were they made?
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Executive summary
Charlie Kirk has been recorded making multiple statements widely described as misogynistic, including advising women to “reject feminism” and “submit to your husband,” telling a teenage attendee that college’s purpose for women is to “find a husband,” and asserting women over 30 are “aren’t attractive in [the] dating pool” and that birth control makes women “angry & bitter”; those remarks have been documented across news outlets, opinion pieces and compilations of his public comments [1] [2] [3] [4]. Reporting and fact checks differ on context and exact wording for some items, and defenders argue his comments are rhetorical or taken out of context [5] [4].
1. “Reject feminism. Submit to your husband.” — Swift comments on The Charlie Kirk Show, 26 August 2025
On his Real America’s Voice program and The Charlie Kirk Show in late August 2025, Kirk reacted to Taylor Swift’s engagement by urging her to “reject feminism” and “submit to your husband,” saying “you’re not in charge,” a formulation reproduced by The Guardian and multiple international outlets reporting on his on-air remarks from 26 August 2025 [1] [6]. Those lines were widely reprinted and framed by outlets such as The Guardian, The Times of India and Hindustan Times as explicitly sexist advice directed at a public woman’s life choices [1] [6] [7].
2. “More children than houses” and prescribing conservative domestic roles — resurfaced comments
In the same cluster of coverage about his comments on Swift, outlets reported Kirk urged the pop star to “have more children than houses” and to make her marriage “more conservative,” lines summarized in Hindustan Times and The Times of India as part of a broader exhortation that women prioritize family roles over public careers; those summaries cite Kirk’s late‑August 2025 broadcasts and social‑media clips that circulated after his death [7] [6].
3. Telling a 14‑year‑old at a Turning Point “Young Women’s Leadership” event that college should be to find a husband — reported July 2025
A July 2025 commentary in Medium reported that at a Turning Point Young Women’s Leadership event a teenage girl asked Kirk what to do when she got to college, and he replied that the purpose of going to college should be to find a husband; the piece treats the exchange as illustrative of Kirk’s recurring emphasis on traditional gender roles [2]. That account is presented as reported by the author rather than as an audio transcript published by a mainstream outlet, and the Medium essay frames the comment as evidence of “patriarchy and misogyny” in his worldview [2].
4. “Birth control makes women ‘angry & bitter’” and comments on women past their “prime” — event coverage (date unspecified in the available reporting)
Coverage summarized by an IMDb news item and picked up elsewhere attributes to Kirk a string of remarks at a Turning Point Faith event in which he said birth control makes women “angry & bitter” and suggested that women in their early 30s “aren’t attractive in [the] dating pool,” arguing they become “upset” when men are less interested; the IMDb summary presents those lines as quotes reported from that event, though the attribution in the clipped coverage lacks a precise original transcript or date in the aggregation provided here [3].
5. How researchers and critics have catalogued and contested his remarks
Major outlets and fact‑checking projects have compiled many of Kirk’s incendiary lines — Media Matters and Snopes have documented collections of quotes and tested viral attributions — and some reporting notes that aggregation after his death amplified certain excerpts while fact‑checkers sought to verify originals and context [1] [4]. Political figures such as Representative Yassamin Ansari publicly characterized Kirk’s rhetoric as racist, xenophobic, homophobic and misogynistic when discussing a congressional resolution, an example of an elected official explicitly labeling his record in those terms [8].
6. Caveats, competing readings, and media agendas
Some commentators argue Kirk’s rhetorical style is deliberately provocative and that snippets can be stripped of surrounding context or editorialized by outlets with partisan agendas; a Substack commentator and other defenders note he made “over the top” comments and that public reaction often amplifies worst formulations [5]. At the same time, mainstream news organizations and international papers reproduced his words verbatim when available and editorialized about their implications, revealing both verification efforts and advocacy in the coverage [1] [6].