Back in 1991, we had the pleasure of watching an extremely uncomfortable episode of NBC Today, with TV personality Katie Couric and her co-anchor, Bryant Gumble.
We may have not thought much of it back then. But now, nearly 30 years later, Katie has decided to reshare this wildly inappropriate TV conversation with her fans, and people are finally sticking up for her the way they should have 30 years ago.
“I was about to go on maternity leave and let’s just say, Bryant Gumbel didn’t quite get it,” she said.
At the time of the clip, Katie was very pregnant and explaining on camera that she would be leaving the show for nine weeks.
It's not as simple as just pushing out a baby and going back to work the next day.
Bryant responded by saying that women shouldn't need that much time off after having a baby, and that she should be able to pop out a baby and get back to work.
Making a mockery of pregnancy and not seeming to take it seriously at all is bad enough.
But then it gets more awkward.
"It takes a while to get back to normal," she added.
"Your ancestors didn't worry about that 'shock' to your body. They came right back to work," Bryant snippily responded.
It's called history, Bryant. Look it up.
There's a very damn good reason why women need time off after they have a baby. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that one out.
It was very random, considering her necklace seemed to be already in place, to begin with.
She awkwardly thanks him, and puts her pearls back in place.
She starts "playfully" hitting Bryant in the arm — with quite a bit of force. She really let him have it.
After that, Katie really started to look exhausted by the conversation.
"I'm just trying to figure out why it takes [nine weeks]," Bryant added.
This was probably the most awkward moment of the entire interview.
It really did seem like he was unnecessarily picking on a pregnant woman at that point.
It really couldn't have been any more awkward. She was definitely at her whits end.
He admits that he will be taking two weeks off to relax and go golfing.
"How many vacation weeks do you get a year, Bryant?" Katie said.
"I take some [weeks off]," he said, trembling in his boots. "You need some time off from time to time," he went on.
Finish him, Katie!
I think Katie won this battle. Not that there should have been one in the first place.
