New York State Senator Teaches Women “Feminine Presence” for Professional Development

[boston bean]

Later this month, Republican State Sen. Marty Golden’s office is holding a career-development event for women in his southern Brooklyn district teaching them “Posture, Deportment and the Feminine Presence.”

That’s according to a taxpayer-funded mailing being sent out in Golden’s district, which an offended reader passed along. The taxpayer-funded event – presented by a “certified protocol consultant” – is part of a series teaching women in Brooklyn “what’s new in the 21st century as it relates to business etiquette and social protocol.” More details are also available on Golden’s Senate website, including the fact that women in attendance will be taught to, “Sit, stand and walk like a model,” how to, “Walk up and down a stair elegantly” and “Differences in American and Continental rules governing handshakes and introductions.”

The event is being held in Bay Ridge Manor, the catering hall formerly owned by Golden, which is now owned by Golden’s brother and run by his wife.

A spokesman for Golden said the goal of the event was simply to help young women land jobs.

“In these economic times, when so many people are out of work, and graduating with advanced degrees to set themselves apart in the workplace, events such as these are also important,” said the spokesman, John Quaglione. ” Senator Golden hosts a multitude of events annually, and this is our first event of this kind, and we hope it to be successful and benefit those who attend.”

http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2012/07/03/new-york-state-senator-teaches-women-feminine-presence-for-professional-development/

[boston bean]

3. I am going to ask you to please delete your response to this thread

We do not make make fun of people using gender based stereotypes in HoF.

[DBoon]

7. OK

I meant it as a slur against male republicans attempting to teach women gender appropriate behavior

But, it is deleted

[boston bean]

8. Thank you, Dboon.

I really appreciate it and no hard feelings.

[eridani]

11. I understand the impulse

You never see women writing articles instructing men on "being men." I actually saw one title many years ago something to the effect of "Being Feminine Feels So Good." I wondered if his wife was writing a companion volume "Being Kicked in the Balls by a Horse Feels Really, Really Bad." In either case, how the hell would they know?

[seabeyond]

5. ya, and we do not do homophobic slurs. can you please edit or delete?

we try to keep this forum free of this stuff.

it is a silly man though, that wants to teach us women how to be a woman, lol.

[seabeyond]

6. hey.... calif

me too. miss it so. where. i was all over. like northern the best. i miss it soooooo much.

[seabeyond]

4. omg... lmfao. oooops, not very feminine. lol lol lol

wow wow wow.

sigh

geezus, what fuckers. ooops, not feminine again.

what is this all of a sudden focus on my fuckin femininity. my fuckin femininity has never been called out in real life. i am clueless to what it is, but, fuck if these men aren't gonna educate me on it.

the way i walk?

bah hahahahha

hey, in the 80's i took a class in college where the professor worked really hard teaching us YOUNG women how to shake, without the "femininity" but universal do on handshakes. that is a hoot.

oh, let me be a weak little woman so you can feel like a strong man. that the femininity we are being educated on?

come one YOUNG women.... go after this one, too.

[MadrasT]

9. There are no words.

WTF are they thinking? I think this guy has seen one too many episodes of Mad Men.

[seabeyond]

10. put on a dress woman

Hey, you say that, but with the popularity of the show gave me concerns. I was told would be an education of what was. I always felt it was a reintroduction to what is suppose to become. Never could get behind the show.