2. Brooke Hogan

“I am actually not that much into voting. I think it’s kinda crazy that a woman is running, because I think that women deal with a lot of emotions and menopause and PMS and stuff. Like, I’m so moody all the time, I know I couldn’t be able to run a country, ‘cause I’d be crying one day and yelling at people the next day, ya know?” These words actually came out of singer and reality star Brooke Hogan‘s mouth on her VH1 reality show Brooke Knows Best. Aside from being a stupid and astoundingly sexist thing to say, it’s also especially bizarre for a woman herself to be saying it. The fact that you’re a moody jerk does not mean that all women everywhere are also moody jerks. But honestly if that’s the kind of logic that makes sense to her then maybe we’re all better off without her voting.

1. Sienna Miller

In one particularly bizarre attempt at rationalization, Sienna Miller once said that she didn’t think that cigarettes were that bad for you, and that if you thought more positively about smoking then it would do less harm to you. Smoking is a brutal addiction that is understandably pretty hard to quit, but trying to convince yourself and others that you can somehow magically avoid the side effects if you just think positively about it seems like a dangerous delusion to convince yourself of, and is an exceptionally crappy thing to say to other people considering how many people have struggled with addiction or who have lost someone to cancer. If you want to smoke, have at it, but be realistic about the effect that it’s having on your body and the people around you instead of proselytizing about how the power of positive thinking can save you from some of the most heavily documented side effects in the world.

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