WATCH: Fox's Megyn Kelly rips Erick Erickson over sexist comments

On Wednesday, a study saying that women are now the primary or sole earners in 40 percent of households with children was released by the Pew Social & Demographic Trends Project.

In response, Red State editor Erick Erickson decided to put his science hat on and dropped this insight on Fox News Business:

It turns out that Fox News employs some of these females, including one named Megyn Kelly. She was not happy with Mr. Erickson.

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Not only did she deny being an "emo liberal" (as Erickson labeled his detractors), she also ripped apart his claim that science was on his side, lifting a piece of paper and saying, "This is a list of studies saying your science is wrong and your facts are wrong." She pointed to past policies in which pseudoscience was used to prop up the status quo:

Yes, that is conservative Kelly invoking Barack Obama in a positive context. Her lambasting of Erickson earned her the admiration of women and emo liberals on Twitter and elsewhere: