Japanese politico calls women 'rusted machines.'

You know, on the one hand, to get a Japanese politician to register an opinion without weeks of meetings and consensus building... that's kinda cool.

OTOH... well... pretty much a moron, yeah?

Japan Today - News - Assemblyman calls Fukushima, other women 'rusted machines':

"Kochi city assembly member Toshiyuki Shimazaki of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party called Social Democratic Party leader Mizuho Fukushima and other female politicians 'rusted machines' in relation to their criticism of the health minister's remarks likening women to child-bearing machines, the assemblyman said Friday."