Arkansas GOP Rep. in college column: Women are ‘the problem’ in divorce

Thanks to online archives, Rep. Tom Cotton (R-AR)’s college-era thoughts about women have been exposed to voters who may be asked to consider him for the U.S. Senate in 2014. Cotton, during his time at Harvard University, penned a 1997 column in which he wrote that men are “simple” and women are “the problem” when it comes to divorce in the United States.

According to the Huffington Post, Cotton argued in a column titled “Promises and Covenants” for the Harvard Crimson he interviews an unspecified number of women (which he admits is a “admittedly small and perhaps unrepresentative”) about their greatest fear only to discover that it is living without a man.