Dickinson justified requesting the pictures of Jones: “She’s over 18. She’s old enough to vote. She’s old enough to serve in the military. She’s old enough to go to Africa and kill an animal. Why don’t we ask an animal how it feels about her killing it for fun?”

As a liberal, Dickinson assured he “very much” supports women’s rights. “Anybody that does not support women’s rights when it comes to abortion or equal pay or anything else—it’s impossible to take them seriously.”

Dickinson revealed to The Daily Beast that he knows first-hand what it means for a woman to be strong and independent, because he owns a strip club. “They empower themselves by dancing, by everything else…I mean, they take guys’ paychecks. Guys come into places and they take their paychecks and they walk out richer for it, so I don’t know any other industry where that happens.” Dickinson declined to say the name of his strip club, for fear that someone may “go there and try to shoot up the place.”