Vox: Ivanka Trump's book has some kind of horrifying advice about sexual harassment

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http://www.vox.com/2016/9/6/12815178/ivanka-trump-sexual-harassment

Donald Trump once said that if Ivanka Trump were sexually harassed, he’d expect her to find another job. But Ivanka Trump herself — who markets herself as a guru for women in the workplace, celebrating “women who work” — has written that when it comes to sexual harassment, women sometimes just need to lighten up.

In her 2009 book, The Trump Card: Playing to Win in Business and in Life, she described a recurring nightmare she had before beginning her first job out of college about being whistled at on a construction site. She’d been wolf-whistled at before while working for her father, but someone with her would always quickly tell the construction workers she was Donald Trump’s daughter.

Her first job was at Forest City Ratner, a development company not affiliated with the Trump Organization, and she wrote that she worried endlessly about how to respond to harassment: “It would put me into an uncomfortable, no-win situation. If I ignored the inappropriate remarks, I might come across as weak. If I responded too harshly, I’d be a tightly wound witch.”

This is a good illustration of the basic, systemic unfairness of sexual harassment. The fear that was keeping Trump awake at night was something her male peers never needed to worry about. And she knew that she — not the harasser who put her in a tough spot in the first place — would be the one who faced judgment.

[Gormy Cuss]

1. I'll take "tightly wound bitch" for $1000, Alex.

Was called the equivalent more than once in my career but only by the inappropriate colleagues/clients. My managers backed me up. That's what happens in a workplace where sexual harassment isn't tolerated.

[milestogo]

2. Just tell them you are Donald Trump's daughter when you are harassed.

All better now.

[unblock]

4. that's just good, common sense advice every woman can use.

hell, even men.


notice, of course, that the implication to the construction workers was that sexual harassment in general was fine, it's just that the boss's daughter specifically was off limits.

[underpants]

3. Her insight into success must be illuminating

Donald Trumps daughter got a job with a fellow developer and she was able to parlay that into getting a job at Daddy's company.

Riveting I'm sure.

[PSPS]

6. LOL. A real page turner for sure.

[Johonny]

7. From the daughter of business mogul Donald Trump and a rising star in the Trump organization

From the Amazon book blurb. Just imagine if she wasn't a rising star in the Trump organization...

[underpants]

8. Oh I'm sure she would have been just as successful

She was destined for Choate and Penn's Wharton School of Business. After that I'm sure she would have become a Senior VP at Trump Inc., regardless if there one of his kids in the way. It was destiny fueled by a triumph of will.

[Warpy]

5. Her advice seems to be "Have a rich and famous daddy

with a platoon of rabid lawyers on retainer."

Still, she gets that if we complain, we're the perpetrators, something that cuts across all lines with all sorts of bullies. It's the kids who stand up to them who are suspended from middle school.