Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who until recently hosted a program on Fox News, said he experienced significant culture shock from all the "trashy" women swearing in a professional setting during his time at the network.
The potential 2016 GOP presidential candidate revealed during a recent radio interview that he was taken aback by women cursing in the workplace while he filmed his Fox News show in New York, ThinkProgress reported.
"In a business meeting that you might have in the South, or in the Midwest, there in Iowa, you would not have people who would just throw the F-bomb or use gratuitous profanity in a professional setting," Huckabee told Iowa radio host Jan Mickelson in a Friday appearance on Des Moines' "Mickelson in the Morning" radio show.
"In New York, not only do the men do it, but the women," he said.
"You just are looking around saying, 'My gosh, this is worse than locker room talk,'" Huckabee added. "This would be considered totally inappropriate to say these things in front of a woman. And for a woman to say them in a professional setting, we would only assume that this is a very, as we would say in the South, 'That's just trashy!'"
Earlier this month, Huckabee quit his Fox News show and announced that he was considering a bid for the White House, according to Politico.
"Would you figure they do it because that's what they expect and that's what women, if they want to be perceived as equal they have to be just as debased as guys?" Mickelson asked.
"I think that's part of it. It is so common that it's not even perceived as being profanity," Huckabee replied. "That's what's so amazing to me."
This is the second time in a month that the 59-year-old stirred cultural controversy, The Huffington Post reported.
In his recently released book, "God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy," Huckabee claimed that rap artist Jay-Z has been "exploiting his wife [Beyonce] as a sex object" and further criticized President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, for letting their daughters listen to the pop icon's music.
