Discussion for article #226493
One of the sexist comments was, “Take those hog castration pictures down, Lieutenant, now!”
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More proof that to the dim-wits in the Tea-Party: “If it has never happened to ME it never happens!”
Will Rush Limbaugh and Mike Huckabee now attack her for “being a slut” and “asking for it” and “That is what happens to Women who go into a MANS JOB.”
Myopic and juvenile. That describes the Tea-Party.
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It’s one of those “liberal for a day” moments. Because she’s personally experienced the harassment, she supports a better way of dealing with it. Not so much empathy for others who are disempowered in other ways.
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That’s just silly. Everyone knows that the official GOP policy is that there is no such thing as sexual harassment. And even if there was, it wouldn’t be a big deal.
Call me a cynic, but releasing this information ahead of her Senate bid seems just a tad opportunistic trying to drum up the sympathy vote. I feel for her being harassed as a female in the military but this wreaks more of political calculus than concern for women in the military. Ironically, I think she just may have lost the rightwing Dominionist vote among white Christian men in her party.
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Was it legitimate harassment?
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Yeah! A Republican takes a stand against sexual assault. The soft bigotry of low expectations means we now have to praise her for her courage.
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Yawn. That is so season 2 Claire Underwood.
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“I had comments, passes, things like that,” Ernst told TIME magazine. “These were some things where I was able to say stop and it simply stopped”. Sounds to me like she didn’t have much of a problem. Somebody made a pass at her. It really is just a vote getting ploy.
You expressed my feelings exactly. I would never diminish her service or try to delegitimize anyone’s claim to have been harassed or assaulted. HOWEVER, you will notice that she said she doesn’t support Kirstin Gillibrand’s bill (which would address Ernst’s concerns) but made some vague comment that she would “work with her” if elected. It sounds like she is trying to have it both ways for political gain.
I doubt it. They all get the implied “wink, wink, nudge nudge, know what I mean, know what I mean,” lying for the Lord bit.
Prosecuting sexual assault and harassment should be non-partisan and non-ideological. It’s bad enough that gender bias must still be overcome in this issue.
Because the only social problems that are real problems are the ones that have been personally experienced by affluent white Republicans.
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When you are a candidate in an active political campaign, then everything you say has political calculus. However, some positions advocated just should be advocated. The rightness of her statement and its political intentions do not cancel each other.
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We don’t have to praise her for her “courage”; it would be enough to thank her for the stated intention to do the right thing. However, if that seems too much to consider, because she’s Teapublican Joni Ernst – we are not forced to say anything. Unless her statement is indisputably hypocritical or an intentional lie, scoffing is inappropriate.
However, this is still no reason for Iowans to vote for her.
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You just said it all. Do Republicans (generally) have a missing empathy chip? How can you be a parent and not understand how it would feel if you couldn’t take your child to the doctor? If you worked all day, wouldn’t you hope to be able to afford enough to eat? Our basic upbringings can’t be all that different. I can still hear my mother (long deceased) saying “You have to first imagine how the other person would feel before you make a decision or judgement.” We all falter sometimes, but didn’t they get that message?
Was she forcibly RAPED?? Like 30%+ of women in the military?
Just a reminder that among Al Franken’s first pieces of legislation was the “Franken Amendment,” which called for defense contractors to be held liable if their employees raped other employees on company property on company time. This was enacted even though every male Republiscum senator voted against it. For some reason those Republiscum senators who happened to be women did not feel that it was OK for a company to condone rape of its women employees.
Let’s see how this Republiscum senatorial wannabe responds if asked how she feels about equal pay for women and the ability of corporations to use the corporate religion to decide what kinds of health care they feel like providing their women employees.
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You think? Considering she filed no reports of this “harassment” so there is no verification possible, yeah, it might be just at tad opportunistic to bring up now.
Toss is that her coziness with the Area 21 nonsense popped us this week, and her MO is to wrap herself in her service as a shield against any and all criticism, then make that a double yeah as a convenient way to change the subject to one of what a poor victim…albeit unverifiable one, that she is.
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