EDWIN Poots. Now there's a man who would benefit from a spot of equality in the workplace training.
His gaffe - if it was a gaffe and not a carefully worded swipe at his new boss - was insulting and had more than a hint of 'back to the kitchen with you' about it.
His latest 'Pootsism' was that Arlene Foster's most important role "has been, and will remain, that of wife, mother and daughter".
He later felt the need to clarify his comments, claiming lefty liberals had misconstrued his words.
But here's the thing, if they were entirely innocent and without the hint of sexism can Mr Poots point me to a similar statement welcoming Peter Robinson to the job back in 2008?
I'm fairly confident that had the new first minister been Nigel Dodds or Sammy Wilson there would have been no such mention of their domestic arrangements from the Lisburn MLA.
The DUP is still a party in which women are underrepresented; they fielded an entirely male team in last year's Westminster elections.
But Arlene Foster is no supporting act and has been appointed to head up a party that has traditionally been seen as a cold house for diversity of any kind on merit and merit alone.
Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland, is a woman I admire greatly and whose political views I'm always interested in hearing. But I can honestly say I've no idea if she's married or has children because I've never felt it relevant to my view of her as a politician.
The same applies to Arlene Foster, her childcare arrangements are her business and hers alone and her marital status has no bearing on her ability to run the assembly.
As a committed Paisleyite, Edwin Poots represents a faction of the DUP who will always be resistant to change.
Mr Poots comes from a world - a world he believes to be less than 10,000 years old - where a woman's role has traditionally been to take care of the children and make the tea in the Orange hall for the men returning from a hard days marching.
His outdated, fundamentalist views while health minister made him look drastically out of touch with the modern world.
Monday's comments to his new boss on the most important day of her career to date did little to change that image.
