In the midst of the 9,000,000th reappearance of Bill O’Reilly’s sexual assault allegations, it’s fun to remember that Trump also celebrated “Sexual Assault Awareness” month by making it easier for people to sexually harass women in the workplace. So here’s me, on Trump, Gorsuch, and how “pro-business” rhetoric is used to punish women for working.
BY SADY DOYLE APR 5, 2017
“It is, however, a symptom of a deeper problem, one which has been a recurring theme throughout Trump’s presidency and in his administration: policies that use “pro-business” logic to advance punitively anti-woman agendas.”
“Punishing businesses for helping women is OK, but punishing businesses for harming women is not.”
in essence:
“Punishing businesses for helping women is OK”
- withhold federal funding from Planned Parenthood
“punishing businesses for harming women is not.”
- Hobby Lobby: the corporation is “not only a person” but is “a religious person.” “But, with respect to Livni, the questions are inseparable—or rather, there is only one question, which is whether corporations are so important that they can, in the name of “religious freedom,” deprive women who work there of basic rights like healthcare.”
- Trump’s repeal of Obama’s executive order against mandatory arbitration for sexual harassment and assault: Mandatory arbitration tilts the power toward the corporation and away from the victim. The end result is a) less cost to the corporation because settlements are lower and b) isolated victims who are bound by non-disclosure rules. There is no public record so no one knows it’s a chronic problem, which leaves corporations free to go on harassing as usual with minimal cost.
“We are dealing with one of the most openly misogynist Presidential administrations in history; it really is no wonder that one of their first acts would be to make sexual harassment a little bit less risky.”
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