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brooklynite

(93,836 posts)
Mon Nov 18, 2019, 03:45 PM Nov 2019

Trump advisory board member: Women should strive to be "handmaidens," stay out of the workplace

Media Matters

Right-wing pundit and recently announced Trump advisory board member Clarence Mason Weaver has said that women aren’t equal to men and that they damaged society when they won the “‘right’ to leave the home and go to work.” He has claimed that women who report sexual misconduct at work are the reason “why we don’t want to be around you in a business.” And he has told women that they should carry themselves as “handmaidens” and “be submissive.”

The Trump campaign recently launched its “Black Voices for Trump” coalition, with President Donald Trump speaking at a rally in Atlanta, GA. The campaign also announced the members of its advisory board, which includes numerous right-wing media personalities such as radio host Herman Cain, Fox Nation hosts Diamond and Silk, and Fox News contributors Deneen Borelli and Alveda King.

The campaign lists the involvement of Clarence Mason Weaver (who usually goes by Mason Weaver in media appearances and also lists his name as Clarence A. Mason on his website), a right-wing author and purported motivational speaker. Weaver has made numerous appearances on Fox Business and Fox News over the years, including on Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox & Friends, and Trish Regan Primetime. He attended the coalition launch in Georgia and posted on Facebook that he got to “meet the President [and] shake his hand again.” He also met Lara Trump.

One of Weaver’s philosophies is that “men and women are not equal.” In a recent video about the subject, Weaver said that women shouldn’t be “queens” because “we do not look for queens. Queens is hard work. We look for handmaidens, sweetheart. We look for a helpmate out here, girl. And no king is looking to share their kingdom.” He later suggested that if a woman isn’t as strong as he is, she should “be quiet, and be humble, and be submissive.”


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Trump advisory board member: Women should strive to be "handmaidens," stay out of the workplace (Original Post) brooklynite Nov 2019 OP
My gag reflex has been activated. Pence must love this guy. Hekate Nov 2019 #1
The usual Republican thought process about women. Upyours Weaver. katmondoo Nov 2019 #2
In other words . . . Iliyah Nov 2019 #3
Bite me no_hypocrisy Nov 2019 #4
This guy can fuck right off. MontanaMama Nov 2019 #5
Thank you for saving me from having to say that. Pacifist Patriot Nov 2019 #9
Here to serve. MontanaMama Nov 2019 #11
Me too bdamomma Nov 2019 #13
On reading that , I just want to puke. wendyb-NC Nov 2019 #6
Let's party like it's 1919? Brainfodder Nov 2019 #7
Dear God, I am so sick of this disrespect Trailrider1951 Nov 2019 #8
THIS is what pigs like this want to do to us! musette_sf Nov 2019 #10
That was an incredibly powerful scene, robbob Nov 2019 #12
This will go over well in the black communities where whites have chosen to incarcerate black males. Freethinker65 Nov 2019 #14

MontanaMama

(23,238 posts)
11. Here to serve.
Mon Nov 18, 2019, 04:47 PM
Nov 2019

I've cussed more in the last 3 years than I have the rest of my 55 years on the planet. The gloves are off.

bdamomma

(63,650 posts)
13. Me too
Mon Nov 18, 2019, 04:53 PM
Nov 2019

I have never cursed so much since this imbecile has stolen the office.


WTF???? Handmaid's, Praise be to God

robbob

(3,514 posts)
12. That was an incredibly powerful scene,
Mon Nov 18, 2019, 04:49 PM
Nov 2019

one that I wish they had done more of; the fall of America and the rise of Giliad. It’s chilling to think how quickly the veneer of civility can fall away in a crisis.

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