Mary Matalin (This Week): Why didn't women harassed by Trump just quit?

[brooklynite]

Well, the simple solution is usually best...

[VMA131Marine]

1. The insensitivity in that statement is just staggering...

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. As weak as labor laws are in this country, this defense doesn't work.

I don't know why she would even try to use it.

[LisaL]

3. So the harassment victims should be ones losing their jobs?

Makes total sense.

[beachbum bob]

4. this is usually the despicable comment a man would make towards a woman who is sexually harrassed

tells us lot about Mary Matalin doesn't it....

[Cerridwen]

5. Ah, the woman who pulls the ladder up behind her.

Ah, the woman who pulls the ladder up behind her.

Had the women done what ms. matalin suggested, she would now be saying they were a bunch of "pu**ie*" for not "toughing it out."

Gotta love the double bind, double standard, damned if you do damned if you don't, BS spewed by the women who hate women.

[Thinkingabout]

6. The proper question is why don't those who feel entitled to make advances on others, men and women,

just quit. There is the aggressor and the victims here. Even if the victim quits the advance has already occurred, why should we protect the abuser?

[underpants]

7. It's Trump/Ivanka's sexual harassment "Find another job"

Mary

[Thrill]

8. You often hear that from women

That don't get a lot attention from men. Those that do, know it's not as easy as just quitting

[MoonRiver]

12. What Thrill said.

I've been on the receiving end, and it is not fun.

[mothra1orbit]

9. I did leave my job over sexual harassment

I had a boss--ironically, this was at a federally-funded medical research center--who came into my office one day, bent over and kissed me hard on the lips, then walked out. Stunned, I called my best friend at work and we met outside. I told her Ray had just kissed me, and she said he kissed her, too, lots of times. She was a single mother and could not afford to leave this job. There was no one we could complain to.

The next day, he came back to my office and tried to kiss me again. I turned my head away, and he grabbed my chin and kissed me while I did my best to pull my head back.

This was in 1971. I had no recourse but to quit; my husband and I had no children and could afford for me to be out of work. But later, when I applied for another job, I was afraid to put the research job on my resume for fear of what kind of reference I'd get--and the research job was by far the best and highest-paid job I'd ever had. This put me back at the bottom of my career ladder, doing "editorial assistant" work, which back then was a total dead end.

[Cakes488]

11. There was little recourse in 1971...we've come a long way but there is

lots more work to do and we can't have a guy like Trashpot in the White HOuse to set us back!

[spooky3]

10. So, the actor who greeted him at the bus was supposed

To give up her good job had he followed through on his plans to kiss or grope her? How exactly does that solve the problem of the harasser's finding his next target?

What a feminist thing to say, Ms. Matalin.

[Rose Siding]

13. psst, Mary, your privilege is showing!

[anamandujano]

15. Trump would not bother to assault Matalin. She's not hot enough. Said it. Not sorry.