Gen. Mike Flynns Office Told Women to Wear Makeup, Heels, and Skirts

[applegrove]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/18/gen-mike-flynn-s-office-told-women-to-wear-makeup-heels-and-skirts.html

by Katie Zavadski at the Daily Beast

"SNIP..............


Women in the Defense Intelligence Agency were told to monitor their levels of makeup, avoid flats, and err on the side of skirts and dresses when the organization was run by Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, who was tapped to be Donald Trump’s national security adviser Thursday. The January 2013 presentation, entitled “Dress for Success,” was obtained through a Freedom of Information request by MuckRock in 2013.

“Makeup helps women look more attractive,” the presentation declared.

Female DIA employees were instructed to straddle the fine line between avoiding a “Plain Jane” look and the right amount of makeup that would appropriately accentuate their features. Too much makeup was also a potential pitfall, with the presentation saying that it “distracts from a professional look.”

The DIA also had strict instructions on what to wear.


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[Thinkingabout]

1. Outward disrespect of women, they are not working for the pleasure of the men in

The office. I doubt many men would liked to be told to wear speedos', this guy needs to be brought into the 21th century.

[Doreen]

2. OMFG!!!

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

5. My sentiments exactly!! Still can't believe these disgusting sexist pricks won the election. There must be a way to stop this insanity!

[Liberal_in_LA]

10. plus one

[Laurian]

3. Darn, I feel like I'm back in grade school when

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girls had to wear dresses. Even on bitterly cold days. We could wear pants under the dresses, but dresses were required. Are we really going back there?

[yardwork]

16. My school system had the same rule. And we prayed to Jesus Christ in school.

I grew up and got out. The people who stayed behind just elected Trump.

[3catwoman3]

4. When I was stationed in Japan while in...

...the AF nurse corps, we had one open ranks inspection of the hospital personnel during my 2 years there. It was done by the base commander, who insisted that we women wear our skirt uniforms even tho trousers had been an authorized uniform item for a least a couple of years. Pissed me off.

[riversedge]

6. eyes roll

[longship]

7. No pant suits for you!

[WhiteTara]

8. I'd walk out and claim hostile work environment

Wait! This is a joke right?

[Ilsa]

9. The women should stand in solidarity and wear trousers,

Pant suits, whatever heelss thry prefer just to let them know who is in control of female employees' work clothes.

[Initech]

11. Did he demand they make him a sandwich as well?

[athena]

12. Of course, it's assumed that all women want to "look more attractive".

After all, in the new Trump-ruled United States, women's entire raison d'être is to look attractive to men. Who cares about our opinions, our hard work, and our contributions? We're just there to look "attractive" so that our (assumed-to-be heterosexual) male colleagues feel sexually stimulated while they do their work.

Don't even get me started on the demand to "avoid flats". These people should be sued for the foot, back, and spine problems they are causing their female employees. But who cares about women's health issues when our sole purpose is to look attractive to men?

Next thing we know, they'll be proposing the execution of all women past a certain age, since Trump and his men only find young women "attractive".

[tblue37]

21. The Cannes Film Festival tried to mandate high heels, too.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/may/19/cannes-backlash-high-heels-emily-blunt-flat-shoes

Cannes faces backlash after women reportedly barred from film screening for not wearing high heels:
Emily Blunt among those critical of festival’s apparent dress code after staff refuse a group of women wearing flat shoes entry to a red carpet screening

[tammywammy]

13. I don't like Flynn, but he did apologize and call that presentation offensive

From the end of the article

“I apologize to the entire workforce for the unnecessary and serious distraction of this ‘Dress for Success’ briefing,” he wrote, claiming that he had only recently learned of its existence. “I’ve now seen it and I too find it highly offensive.”

“Neither the agency nor I condone this briefing and I only hope the intention to execute this task was pure of heart and intended to help... but even smart people do dumb things sometimes.”

[uponit7771]

18. fuck him, he gets no benefit of the doubt after the Muslim comments who on his staff knew

... about this shit and let it fly??!

Its not just DPutin, its the people around him who are just as fucked up

[uponit7771]

19. See post number 14 ... seems like flyn has a habbit of doing fucked up things and apologizing for

.. it later

sounds unstable

[Mc Mike]

14. I remember his anti-semitic twitter 'mistake'.

" In July 2016, Flynn shared a tweet that read, “Not anymore, Jews. Not anymore.” Flynn linked to the message to claim that the “corrupt Democratic machine will do and say anything to get #NeverHillary into power.” He later apologized, deleted the tweet, and claimed it was “a mistake.” "


http://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2016/11/18/trump-national-security-adviser-michael-flynn-promoted-anti-semitic-tweet-and-diversity-white/214542

[Vinca]

15. Translation: Mike loves Barbie.

Is Larry Flynt still alive and might he have photos of anyone enjoying the services of a stiletto-wearing dominatrix?

[LAS14]

17. This really hits home.

I haven't worn makeup in literally decades. The idea of someone putting my job in jeopardy if I didn't is scary in a unique way.

[athena]

20. I don't wear makeup or heels either.

I've always found makeup unhealthy and a bit gross. Finally, a few years ago, I realized that the relatively low-heeled shoes I was wearing were giving me bunions. So I switched to totally flat shoes -- zero heel and zero arch support, so that the foot does what it was naturally evolved to do. How dare these people tell women that they have to jeopardize their health to "look attractive" to men? Shouldn't the focus be on how well they are doing their jobs, rather than how they look to men while doing it?