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North Dakota lawmakers stopped the Blue Laws repeal because they think women need the time to cook for their husbands, Entity reports.

Hey ladies, if you thought Sundays were for sleeping in, taking a spin class, or doing whatever the heck you want, think again. According to a couple North Dakota lawmakers women should spend their Sundays making their husbands breakfast in bed.

Last week North Dakota lawmakers debated whether they should repeal the state’s much maligned Blue Laws — also known as Sunday Closing Laws — which bar any business or labor between twelve midnight and twelve noon on Sunday.

Even though there’s been talk of repealing the law for years, some male lawmakers — because of course they were men — were still on the fence about it. They felt the women of North Dakota should spend their time more wisely, like by serving their husbands.

Sundays are for “Spending time with your wife, your husband. Making him breakfast, bringing it to him in bed and then after that go take your kids for a walk,” said Representative Bernie Satrom, who argued in favor of keeping the laws.

Representative Vernon Laning kept the misogyny party going adding, “I don’t know about you but my wife has no problem spending everything I earn in 6 and a half days. And I don’t think it hurts at all to have a half day off.” Get it? Because women just spend their husbands money and offer no value to society. LOLz.

In all seriousness, these comments are so absurd they sound made up. But they’re not, they were caught on tape.

Entity reports on the sexist reason North Dakota lawmakers refuse to repeal the Blue Laws.

North Dakota lawmakers barred the repeal of the Blue Laws for the most sexist reason. Image via Dimension Films

And in the vein of sexist non-apologies from white men — see Jeremy Renner, Matt Damon, etc. — Rep. Laning later shrugged off any criticism, saying anyone who had a problem with his comment simply “lacked a sense of humor.”

We should note some women in North Dakota didn’t think the comments were sexist at all.  “I don’t see what’s so frustrating about it. If that’s the way they want to live, that’s their choice,” said Fargo resident Vonnie Flute to Valley News in North Dakota.

Other women weren’t so happy about the remarks. “It’s frustrating personally because when you know those are the people representing you and you don’t feel like you’re being represented and those kind of backwards ways of thinking are still present, it’s really, it’s upsetting,” explained Fargo resident Sarah Cramer to Valley News.

At the end of the session North Dakota’s House killed the bill in question and decided to keep the Blue Laws. However in a strange twist the House voted again the next day and decided to repeal the law after all, voting 48-46.

So while the Blue Laws may soon be a thing of the past in North Dakota, misogyny certainly is not.

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