Kelly Stafford doesn’t mind being cared for by a man – even if she admits men aren’t exactly flawless.
The 35-year-old shared her perspective in a recent episode of her podcast, “The Morning After,” with her friend Hank Winchester, where the two tackled the viral question of whether 100 men could defeat a gorilla.
“I’m not a hardcore feminist. I’m not. I’ve never been,” she said on the Thursday, May 1 episode. “I love a man to take care of me.”
She began to say she was “born and raised” with that mindset, but quickly shifted to her main point: “But gosh would y’all be lost without us. Because y’all would try to fight a damn silverback gorilla.”
Silverbacks are adult male gorillas weighing between 300 and 500 pounds and standing close to six feet tall. They have far greater upper body strength than humans, along with powerful teeth used only for defense since gorillas are herbivores.
Kelly, married to Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford, used the internet trend to emphasize that, while some men are “brilliant,” they’d still be helpless without women.
“I love men. I really do. And I do think that there are some very, very brilliant ones,” she said. “They invent a lot of things that we use today. But if there were no women, they would destroy whatever they invented the next f***ing day.”
She went on, bringing the online debate to Winchester’s attention.
“Do you not see this damn debate going around right now that 100 people could kill a silverback gorilla unarmed?” she asked. “Unarmed. 100 unarmed people. I’ll tell you one thing: do you know who’s not thinking about this? A woman.”
She suggested that in a showdown with a gorilla, men would sabotage themselves.
“Who do you think is more selfish in general, men or women? Men. Who’s going to be the first one to charge that gorilla? None of you,” she said.
“Women aren’t even thinking about this, discussing it,” she concluded. “They’re looking at this going what f***ing dumbass guy thought about this?”
In response, Yahoo News consulted Tara Stoinski, president and chief scientist for the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, who gave her view. She backed the humans, but with a warning: they’d need teamwork.
“[The gorilla would] probably take out a number of humans in the fight; they wouldn’t go unscathed,” she said. “I think that the numbers just work in the human’s favor.”