Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) said Thursday during an appearance on MSNBC that she thought it was “outrageous” Vice President Mike Pence would not meet with women alone.
“I disagree with him when he suggests it’s not possible to have meetings with women alone by himself,” the California senator and 2020 Democratic presidential contender told MSNBC on Thursday. “I think that’s ridiculous― the idea that you would deny a professional woman the opportunity to have a meeting with the vice president of the United States is outrageous.”
The vice president’s press secretary, Alyssa Farah, quickly fired back at Harris in a Thursday tweet, refuting Harris’ claim and telling her the vice president has promoted women to leadership positions within his office and has relied on his female staffers for “advice and counsel”:
“I’m a female Senior Advisor to Mike Pence & am wondering why you are repeating this false claim?” Farah tweeted. “He’s elevated women to positions of leadership throughout his career & relies on their advice & counsel. Get your facts straight.”
Harris was referring to a 2002 interview where Pence revealed that he never dines alone with women other than his wife Karen and does not drink in public unless his wife is by his side.
When Pence’s comments resurfaced in a 2017 Washington Post article, several critics accused the vice president of putting career-minded women at a disadvantage for a “dumb dinner rule” and promoting a worldview “where men have no self-control, and women are either temptresses or guardians of virtue.”
Despite the backlash in the press, a New York Times poll from that same year found that most Americans agreed with Pence’s principle of not eating alone with women other than his wife.
"Kamala thinks it’s outrageous because no one can credibly accuse Pence of sexual impropriety. That only leaves them with their constant fallback... racism."
And when the confederates saw Jackson standing fearless as a stone wall the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.
ajax18 wrote:"Kamala thinks it’s outrageous because no one can credibly accuse Pence of sexual impropriety. That only leaves them with their constant fallback... racism."
You're quoting someone named Cletus in the comments section. God you're damned deplorable.
Harris makes a valid point. Pence discriminates against more than half the population because he apparently doesn't trust himself not to cheat on his wife if left alone with another woman in an interview. Brietbart thinks it has refuted that point by pointing out that he has hired women?
Stupid. That isn't a refutation of the point that Pence's practice is probably illegal. But you love it when rich white men pretending to be Christians break the law dontcha.
One of the ways people develop influence is by meeting alone with people. Even when that is not the purpose of such meetings, it can have that implicit effect. If women can't do that with men in power, but men can, that puts them at a inherent disadvantage to men. That's the complaint all sorts of people have with Pence on this. Harris is just echoing this and hitting a slow pitch down the middle of the plate.
To twist this into anger over losing the chance to invent false sexual harassment/assault allegations is about as offensive as it is stupid.
Moreover, the folks at Brietbart are often reminding us of the dangerous risk of Muslims in the United States is that they'll import their misogynistic cultural mores into the country. That sounds scary. I wonder if they'll make it so men can't meet alone with women and put them at a structural disadvantage.
EAllusion wrote:Moreover, the folks at Brietbart are often reminding us of the dangerous risk of Muslims in the United States is that they'll import their misogynistic cultural mores into the country. That sounds scary. I wonder if they'll make it so men can't meet alone with women and put them at a structural disadvantage.
A Muslim man explained to me recently that the reason women must pray behind men in (his) mosque, that women must follow behind men, etc. is that it is out of respect for the women. It prevents men from staring at their behinds and objectifying them. It's not about using physical order to implicitly convey inferior status. If anything, it proves that women are treated with greater respect than men.
That's pretty terrible, but now I appreciate how much comparative effort was put into it. At least he didn't go with, "It prevents those trisky women from making up false allegations of sexual impropriety. Got a problem with it? You want to take me down with allegations of sexual harassment, don't you?"
She is just deflecting from the questions for why she chose not to prosecute Herbalife.
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires...seek discipline and find your liberty I can tell if a person is judgmental just by looking at them what is chaos to the fly is normal to the spider - morticia addams If you're not upsetting idiots, you might be an idiot. - Ted Nugent
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
