Alyssa Farah Griffin offered her “sexist” parenting take on this morning’s episode of The View, leaving Joy Behar shocked.
The Hot Topics panel was discussing an advice column submission in which a dad said he expected his 20-year-old daughter to sleep in a separate room from her boyfriend when he comes to visit. The mother, on the other hand, wants her husband to face the reality that their daughter had been practically living with her boyfriend when they were studying abroad, and urged him to let them cohabitate.
Sunny Hostin was the first to jump in, admitting that she refused to let her son cohabitate with his girlfriend under her roof when he first asked her at 18 years old. Now that he’s 21, however, she said she’s “conflicted” and “praying on it.”
“Sunny, let go and let God,” Behar joked.
Unlike the rest of the co-hosts, Griffin doesn’t have children just yet. But that didn’t stop her from sharing how she would feel in the same situation.
“I have this weird instinct that feels very sexist where I would be OK with my son when they’re older, but I’m never gonna want my daughter to,” she said. “I don’t know why and I know that’s not right. But I can’t imagine letting my daughter have sex in my house.”
Behar almost immediately fired back, “That’s ridiculous! Oh, my God. And you’re saying that at your age?!”
Griffin agreed that her thought process was “weird,” joking that she was “programmed wrong.” According to the former White House staffer, she would be worried about her daughter getting pregnant if she allowed a guy to sleep over her house.
“Well, you tell her to use birth control,” Behar replied. “That doesn’t mean she’s different from the boy.”
But Sara Haines appeared to be nodding her head in agreement with Griffin. She eventually pointed out that the person in the advice column also “said there’s a channeled thing to protect when it comes to certain sexes.”
The View airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.
