Elaine Chao advises women who experience sexual harassment to 'let it go'

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY JOHN BOWDEN - 12/05/17 02:58 PM EST

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said Tuesday that women who have experienced sexual harassment or other misconduct in the workplace have to "let it go" in order to move on with their lives.

Chao, a member of President Trump's Cabinet and wife of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), said at Politico's Women Rule Summit that focusing on mistreatment after it has occurred "holds you back" professionally.

"I will fight for other women and I will stand up for other women, but, of your own, you gotta let it go," Chao said. "Because otherwise, it's too corrosive, it's too negative, and it does you a double injury because it holds you back."

She made the comments after saying she had her own "#MeToo" moment of experiencing sexual harassment in the workplace. Chao declined to identify the harasser, only noting that the person is still active in the workplace.



Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/363359-elaine-chao-advises-women-who-experience-sexual-harassment-to-let-it

[elehhhhna]

1. What the hell does she know she's married to a turtle and her fathers a drug runner

Runner

[exboyfil]

2. That is unless you are accusing a Democrat

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. "That's right girls!! You too can land a sociopthic turtle if you keep your traps shut!" nt

[Angry Dragon]

4. i thought she was smarter than the Tortoise??

[ProfessorGAC]

6. She Probably Is

That doesn't make her smart though. Just smarter than her idiot husband.

[Angry Dragon]

12. good point

[ProfessorGAC]

18. After A Little Further Thought

She is most certainly smarter than he. My 5 pets are smarter than him.

[SunSeeker]

5. Fighting for justice does not hold you back, you craven, soulless dipshit.

But it sure makes your evil husband's life easier, amiright Elaine?

[Scarsdale]

7. We can be sure

it was not Mitch who harassed her!! He likes males.Someone should inform her that men can be victims, too.

[Alice11111]

11. Is that true? MM likes guys, so their marriage is a sham?

[Scarsdale]

19. Army service cut short,

after an incident in the showers. He was there 3 weeks!! One of his male "aides" left his job, to take a job a few blocks away. Mitch CRIED when he announced this. REAL TEARS!! He had a very short gfirst marriage. This wife's father is a multi millionaire shipping tycoon, who deals in drug shipments. Mitch's bank account has increased BIGLY since he married her. He managed to get bills passed to help his faher-in-law (who is likely younger than Mitch!!)

[Alice11111]

20. If true, that would explain how she could ever let that

mean, ugly shitbag get near her. My gfs and I had wondered. Well, he doesn't, and she doesn't.
So, it was a big increase in$$ for MM and $$ for his Father in law. It was an increase in power for her.

The drugs his Father in law deals in, legal, as in Rx, or illegal?

[Raster]

27. Linky-doodle-do....

https://waragainstallpuertoricans.com/2016/07/09/90-pounds-of-cocaine-discovered-on-a-boat-owned-by-the-family-of-mitch-mcconnell-the-majority-leader-of-the-u-s-senate/

[Alice11111]

33. Thank you. Interesting...

[Maggiemayhem]

35. I heard about the cocaine bust and Daddys money,

but never heard of same sex allegations.Until now.

[brush]

15. I hadn't heard that. Any substance to that allegation?

[Maggiemayhem]

36. Google Ping May

[brush]

41. Ping May is the name of a ship tied to turtleman's wife's father's shadowy shipping company...

on which drug's may or may not have been smuggled.

There is also a person name Ping May whose facebook page shows numerous photos of what may or may not be a woman dressed in hooker outfits.

Has there been a conflation between the two?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. She was Bush II's Secretary of Labor. NT

[Alice11111]

21. Yes. Evidently, she is good at her job, depending on your

Value set, Repub or Dem.

[cp]

9. Guess that's how she stays married to McConnell

Hey Elaine, of course it "holds you back professionally" no matter how you respond. That is what it is designed to do. No more!

[Hortensis]

10. Elaine Chao requires people whose homes have been

damaged beyond all recovery by environmental disasters created by evil profiteers to suffer without any real recourse. Horrible person.

[RayStar]

13. Dang

Something is so wrong in her comment.

[OldHippieChick]

16. Dang?

Is that the strongest language you have for someone so horrible? A whole helluva lot is wrong w/ her comment, not the least of which is that she is telling women to grin and bear it because boys will be boys. "Lay back and enjoy it honey - then move on" No other way to advance your career. God forbid, if you can't marry a turtle, you better sleep w/ one.

Yeah I'd say there's something wrong w/ her comment.

[Alice11111]

22. Though, as posted above, maybe they don't sleep together.

[Leghorn21]

32. ++Dang, indeed, RayStar!! Every bit of her yakking is so wrong on every level, it's gag-inducing!

Some days I just wish everybody would shut the hell UP, you know? Too much stoopid is running from too many mouths, entirely too often!!

(Of course, if I didn't (try to) keep up with "the news", I wouldn't feel this way so often, eh?) arrgghh!

[magicarpet]

14. Besides.....

If you were at home where you belong.... bare foot... cleaning the toilets and changing diapers... while washing the floors and baking chocolate chip cookies.....

You would never have been raped at work or sexually harassed anyways.

So no one to blame but yourself.

[Sanity Claws]

17. Next she will say that workers should just let go

wage theft.

She is clueless and has no idea of how damaging sexual harassment and its underlying misogyny are.

[BigmanPigman]

23. *&$@*%!

I can't write what I want to say without getting kicked off of DU.

[Liberalagogo]

24. I've said it before but...

Self-loathers will be the death of us all.

[sandensea]

25. Like the Feds let drug trafficking charges against your family go, Madame Chao?

https://www.thenation.com/article/mitch-mcconnells-freighted-ties-shadowy-shipping-company/

[riversedge]

26. I don't like her advice!...

Not at all. Am curious what the two Dems said. Perhaps it will come out in another article


................She made the comments after saying she had her own "#MeToo" moment of experiencing sexual harassment in the workplace. Chao declined to identify the harasser, only noting that the person is still active in the workplace.

"The person is still here and they're still around," she said. "Things change, times change, and it's not worth my while to go back and revisit those negative moments."

Chao added that experiences of misconduct in the workplace such as hers are "a dirty little secret that a lot of women have held for a long time."

The fifth annual Women Rule Summit began Tuesday and included several other speakers who touched on the "#MeToo" movement in their remarks. Chao joined fellow Trump administration official Kellyanne Conway at the event, as well as Democrats such as Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.) and Rep. Jackie Speier (Calif.).

This story was updated at 3:41 p.m.

[handmade34]

28. if you are not

part of the solution... you (Elaine Chao) are part of the problem...

[onecaliberal]

29. Fuck you, fuck off. Shut the Fuck up.

[turbinetree]

34. K&R +1

[MikeydaDog]

30. "Letting it go", and keeping mouth shut are two different things.

In my experience, speaking out about the experience has nothing to do with holding onto the experience. It is about holding the harasser responsible and calling it out.

[Marthe48]

40. Yes, this

Thank you.

[SWBTATTReg]

31. maybe that's the problem, too many victims in the past have 'let it go'

This is wrong, and I'm happy to see the victims finally get their day, they deserve it richly, and the abusers will finally get their just rewards...

no abuse of any kind is acceptable, period.

[Paladin]

37. To bloody hell with you, Ms. McConnell. ASAP.

Some example you're setting for put-upon, harassed women across this country. I hope you pay for it.

[keithbvadu2]

38. "said Tuesday" - But not during Bill Clinton's time in office?

"said Tuesday" - But not during Bill Clinton's time in office?

[DLevine]

43. We're not in the UK, and that word isn't ok to use on DU. nt

[SergeStorms]

45. Sorry you were offended.

It's been removed.

[area51]

42. WHAT?

Chao needs to fsck right off.

[Grammy23]

44. If everyone who had been treated badly by someone else took her advice...

Women would still not be allowed to own property or vote. People of African decent would be in the same boat. Few rights. Slavery. Deemed subhuman. Forced to live in housing unfit for farm animals and eat the scraps and cast offs from the master’s kitchen.

It is ONLY when people stand up and make their stories a part of history that things change. Overlords don’t just suddenly come to an epiphany and realize they have been treating others unfairly or in a demeaning way. People in power and influence won’t stop taking advantage of others seeking jobs or promotions until those who are exploited speak up. The dark secrets of sexual harassment are everywhere but kept quiet and muffled until someone dares to come forward to expose the behavior. Nothing santitizes like the cold light of day and courage of someone sitting in the glaring lights of the media telling their horrifying story.

So Ms. Chao needs to rethink her comments. In essence, she is telling these (mostly) women to sit down in the back of the bus and quit your belly aching. Shame on her for admonishing those with courage to “let it go” and keep the status quo.

[BigDemVoter]

46. Every time I look at her, I think about her having sex with Turtle McConnell. . . .

THAT would be punishment enough. . . . What a pitiful sack of shit.