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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 01:37 PM Aug 2016

Eric Trump suggests women invite sexual harassment — and women invite him to go f*ck himself

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/eric-trump-suggests-women-invite-sexual-harassment-and-women-invite-him-to-go-fck-himself/

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.”

One in three women gets sexually harassed in the workplace, according to a survey last year. That doesn’t even include the recent statistics contributed by Fox News’s sexual harassment scandal.


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Happyhippychick

(8,379 posts)
1. I am a strong woman. I was sexually harassed many times in the workplace (in my younger days)
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 01:42 PM
Aug 2016

He can just fuck right off.

Strength has nothing to do with it, it's bad behavior on the part of the sexual harasser.

kimbutgar

(21,226 posts)
2. When I was young I was sexually harassed and it was awful
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 01:47 PM
Aug 2016

It was a good paying job and I had bills to pay and just couldn't walk away.

Eventually, I had enough and got another job. So f Cheeto Jr.,

niyad

(113,635 posts)
3. wonder how many women have been sexually harrassed by these woman-hating, misogynistic,
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 02:06 PM
Aug 2016

pieces of slime?

PatSeg

(47,656 posts)
5. I'm quite sure they are no
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 02:38 PM
Aug 2016

better than their father. Eric's comments rather imply that he has sexually harassed women at work and probably blames them. "If you don't like it, find another job."

Avalux

(35,015 posts)
6. Ummm....Ivanka doesn't have to worry about keeping a roof over her head or feeding her children.
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 02:43 PM
Aug 2016

Eric's comments are typical of someone who doesn't have a clue what that sort of thing is all about. What an asshole.

 

StraightRazor

(260 posts)
7. Apples to oranges...
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 02:46 PM
Aug 2016

Ivanka was handed the job of Executive Vice President of her Daddy's company, having never actually worked before.

No one would sexually harass their boss - except of course her Daddy.

Hekate

(90,876 posts)
8. "Find another career"? I suspect the FOX women were assured they'd be blacklisted in the industry...
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 02:49 PM
Aug 2016

...and finding another career would be their only option.

It's telling that women who wanted to respond to the internal investigation agreed to be interviewed, they requested that it be off-site, because it was commonly believed that their offices were bugged by Ailes.

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