'You have got to fix yourself up - look pretty, look alert:' Christian conservative T.V. host Pat Robertson blames 'awful-looking' women for failed marriages







If your husband isn't paying attention to you, it's probably because you don't look 'pretty' and 'alert,' according to evangelical talk show host Pat Robertson.



At least that's what Robertson told his viewers recently, using an anecdote from a fellow preacher to illustrate his point.



'A woman came to a preacher I know — it’s so funny,' said Robertson, host of the 700 Club. 'She was awful-looking. Her hair was all torn up, she was overweight and looked terrible, clothes bad and everything, and she said, "Oh Reverend, what can I do? My husband has started to drink."



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If your husband isn't paying attention to you, it's probably because you don't look 'pretty' and 'alert,' talk show host Pat Robertson told viewers

'And the preacher looked at her and he said: "Madam, if I were married to you, I'd start to drink too."'

Robertson chuckled and added, 'We need to cultivate romance, darling.'

'You always have to keep that spark of love alive,' he said. 'It isn't something to just lie there [and think] "Well I'm married to him, so he's got to take me slatternly-looking." You have got to fix yourself up, look pretty, look alert.'

But unkempt women aren't solely responsible for failed marriages, Robertson reasoned.



That presumption would completely overlook another chief antagonist to an otherwise perfect union: Stubborn women.

Stubborn women can also kill a romance in a heartbeat, according to Robertson.



Robertson chuckles as he tells a story about an unkempt woman who didn't understand why her husband had started drinking

Offering his advice to a 17-year-old whose parents were having marital problems, Robertson suggested that the boy's mother was at fault.

Writing to the mens' magazine Maxim, the teenager wrote: 'I’m 17 years old and I’ve noticed that there has been a change in my father’s behavior. He spends too much time at the computer playing a war game. I’ve noticed how alone my mom feels. I just want my father to spend more time with my mom. What should I do? How can I talk to my father? I feel shame for him. Please help.'

Robertson encouraged the boy to send his parents on a romantic getaway.

'The romance is obviously going out of the marriage,' he said. 'It's not as much excitement as it used to be and you know, it may be your mom isn’t as sweet as you think she is.'

Robertson tells his female co-host that it's 'easy' to blame women for failed marriages

'She may be kind of hard-nosed,' he continued. 'And so, you say, it’s my father, he’s not paying attention to mom, but is mom...' Robertson trailed off and started chuckling.

His female co-host interjected, 'How are you going to blame the mother?'

Robertson shot back: 'It's easy to blame the mother!'

The co-host laughed uncomfortably.

'It comes with 58 years of marriage I know what I'm talking about, ok?' Robertson snapped. 'Now what's next?'