Ron Swanson was a man of few words, and simple pleasures. He enjoyed scotch, woodwork, breakfast foods, meat, his family and being outside. That was pretty much it.

However, Parks and Rec actor reckons the character doesn't get the credit he deserves, especially from those who celebrate Ron as a symbol of the simple life. Speaking to The A.V. Club, Offerman discussed Ron's deeper side and the character's feminist world view, "Ron Swanson, because of his simple rules for living, became a lot of peoples’ icon for their own aspirations of simple living. And so anybody from meat eaters to scotch drinkers to gun wielders to libertarians all hold Ron up as their champion, but he was much more complex than that. He was a very outspoken feminist. He was a man of few words and people mistook that for a man of few colours."

He went on to compare Ron to other alpha male TV characters, and how Ron was a completely different breed ".Traditionally, that character is more like Al Bundy or Archie Bunker, where they’re much more apt to be misogynists or, at best, dismissive of women. Ron was completely fair. Whoever had the skills or the passion or the decency, whether it was a man or a woman, he drew no line."

Offerman was giving the interview in support of his upcoming 'Summer of 69: No Apostrophe' which sees him hit the road alongside his wife Megan Mullally. The pair will be coming to Dublin as part of the tour, and if this earlier tweet is anything to go by, Nick is already excited.