Strong women don’t
The male Trumps are of course very clued-in and wise about sexual harassment. Like Eric Trump for example:
In an interview with “CBS This Morning,” the son of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump seemed to think that women allowed sexual harassment to occur.
Eric Trump was responding to a comment his father made in a USA Today piece, in which he said that his daughter Ivanka would either find a different career or job if she was harassed in the workplace.
“I think what he’s saying is, Ivanka is a strong, powerful woman, she wouldn’t allow herself to be objected to it,” the younger Trump said. “And by the way, you should take it up with Human Resources, and I think she would as a strong person, at the same time, I don’t think she would allow herself to be subjected to that. I think that’s a point he was making, and I think he did so well.”
Yeah. Good point. Strong Trump women don’t take any shit, while the rest of us just sit there limply and let it happen. It’s totally voluntary, sexual harassment is, so if it happens to you, it’s your fault for being so weak and stupid.
Even the women of Fox aren’t buying it.
Sigh. https://t.co/dj6rtOa8ta
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) August 2, 2016
Well she just says that because she’s got blood coming out of her whatever.
Sad in 2016 we're still victim blaming women. Trust me I'm strong. #StandWithGretchen https://t.co/e2GxTaHZLN
— Gretchen Carlson (@GretchenCarlson) August 2, 2016
Only Losers get sexually harassed, am I right?
He clearly went to the same speech classes as his father. The structure and tone is identical. Or, maybe he’s a clone…
Also. Asshole.
Ugh, that guy. Odious little elephant-murdering, misogyny-defending ass.
Saying that strong women would find a career elsewhere is saying that women don’t deserve to have the career choices men do. Because any man can force a woman to quit by creeping on her– and guess what, sexual harassment is a power play, and forcing a woman to quit is a win for the harasser.
Saying his daughter would find another job is useless, because she has financial security other women don’t have. Real strong women mostly don’t have a choice about earning rent money.
Saying a strong woman would quit in protest is saying weak women actually deserve a faster, easier career, as long as they smile when they are being insulted and even putting out to get ahead. This is NOT a surprising attitude for Trump to have, but no one should pretend this isn’t implied by the statement.
No matter how you look at it, it’s pure patriarchy.
The whole concept of a ‘strong woman’ in the first place is a product of patriarchy, and it’s clearly victim-blaming bullshit both in general and in this specific instance.