Communications... you know how women are.President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris today announced new members of the White House staff who will serve in senior communications roles.
— Biden-Harris Presidential Transition (@Transition46) November 29, 2020
For the first time in history, these communications roles will be filled entirely by women.https://t.co/SjWAWJg941
We men will make the decisions and hash out the difficulties of policy. The women will put our thoughts into words that the little people will understand.
You know how good women are with little people — children... the weak... the deplorable.
ADDED: This is an important correction to that "first time in history" business, but it reinforces and heightens the feminist point that I made:
President @realDonaldTrump already has an ALL FEMALE Senior White House Press Team.
— Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) November 30, 2020
So does @VP...
So does @FLOTUS...
So does @SecondLady...
The completely DISCREDITED @washingtonpost once again reveals their blinding propagandist Fake News proclivities ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/HpP0KL8kgD
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How long before we start to get stories about how awful that office is, and how it's a mess of infighting, backstabbing, and passive aggressive feuds?
President Donald Trump
already has an ALL FEMALE Senior White House Press Team.
A first for you, I guess...
@Wibble - what press will report that?
Also, sounds to me like male communication specialists should call the office of civil rights....
-XC
Kayleigh McIneny has an “ahem” on this topic...
Mr Wibble gets that stereotype right.
Oh good. Jen Psaki is back to reprise her role as Mildred Gillars.
When I see the list I think, well sure, women can lie better than men. We tend to want to believe women. (believe ALL women, heh). We look at them and want to believe that they would not lie, that they are honest and because they have larger hearts and are not weighted down by toxic masculinity, can say things that need to be said, in a more kind and inclusive way.
This will be a comedy show of lies, propaganda, and misstatements presented as expert level information. Not that I have low expectations or anything, but I've seen this show already.
Right off the bat they’re lying about being the president and vice-president elect. How’s that for communication?
I don’t see the problem. They’re all making big money.
I’ve never understood why you give a shit about this stuff, prof.
You’re doing fine, right? So, why give a fuck? There is no big principle to defend here.
I stopped reading you for over a year out of exasperation with your discrimination/stereotype obsession. It’s not so much that it pissed me off. I regard it as 60s nostalgia you need to ditch. I had a house in Woodstock for 45 years. The 60s nostalgia became a bore.
This is a silly part of your game. We’re all entitled to be silly and petty about some things, I guess. This is your silly, petty BS.
If you hire women, you're sexist.
If you don't hire women, you're sexist.
Got it.
If you hire women, you're sexist.
If you don't hire women, you're sexist.
Got it.
If you point out that you sought to hire more women, you get mocked by a bunch of nitwits looking for anything that they can make fun of in order to be part of the leftwing circle-jerk.
All the different ways to make sure information is spread far and wide:
telegraph
telegram
telephone
television
tell a woman
...
Women are attracted to it, which doesn't disparage the occupation. Interests differ by sex.
Men or women can do any job, but how well the job sustains interest varies greatly by sex.
How long before we start to get stories about how awful that office is, and how it's a mess of infighting, backstabbing, and passive aggressive feuds?
It's a Democratic administration, so the media will make certain the answer is "never".
Cluster anticipates what will happen in the Biden admin, clusterfuck.
Only the inconvenient facts get checked. We all know that!
the democrat party IS womyn's work
Are these women more convincing liars? Better at delivering bad news? Those would seem to be important qualities for the 'transition team' to look for...
Yet another staggering lie from the Democrats, disseminated uniformly and uncritically by every single major media outlet. No fact checks needed here!
But coordinated leftist infiltration and political capture of the institutions is just a crazy conspiracy theory.
Because one lie after another in service of the Left, and only the Left, is just how these things naturally develop, all by themselves.
Only certain women count.
The entire media industry refused to put the first lady on the cover for their glossy leftwing magazines for that last 4 years.
Women disproportionately comprise "communications" majors. Because systemic sexism.
Right off the bat they’re lying about being the president and vice-president elect. How’s that for communication?
Predictive!
It's a Democratic administration, so the media will make certain the answer is "never".
Nah, it'll come out. It will be juicy gossip to go around DC, and all sides are Dems so they'll each have pet journalists who will dutifully report it.
I probably should have skipped this post. I try to remind myself to skip all of your identity politics BS, prof.
Have you ever considered just ditching this shit? You’re retired and rich. You’re not being denied anything.
Women in the U.S. have no bitch. Homosexuals have no bitch.
Just drop this stupid shit.
Your next poll:
Who do you like better?
A. "Serious Jen"
B. "Playful Jen"
isn't it a Bigger issue, that the Biden WH communications team raises questions over revolving door with liberal networks ???
Journalism died in darkness.
"Communications... you know how women are."
We do. Women are special. Specially better. So?
"We men will make the decisions and hash out the difficulties of policy. The women will put our thoughts into words that the little people will understand."
You mean, with Harris as VP and Yellen at Treasury? This is getting ridiculous.
"You know how good women are with little people — children... the weak... the deplorable."
Yep, though deplorable has nothing to do with it.
"ADDED: This is an important correction to that "first time in history" business, but it reinforces and heightens the feminist point that I made"
While the actually existing feminism is staring you in the face: Women are special. Women's firsts are special. Women are to be celebrated.
And of course, part of actually existing feminism is its exploitation for prog purposes, as in recognition for Joe's women vs. DJT's women: women's first are achieved by progs, and right-wing women don't count.
Give it up, Althouse.
Jen Psaki will serve as the White House Press Secretary. Psaki, recently left her gig as a CNN contributor to oversee the confirmations team for the Biden-Harris transition.
Karine Jean-Pierre, who will serve as the administration’s principal deputy press secretary, served as chief public affairs officer for the far-left moveon.org and was a political analyst for NBC and MSNBC.
tim maguire said...
"Only the inconvenient facts get checked."
If by 'checked' you mean slammed into the boards until they can't raise their heads, then yes.
and right-wing women don't count.
And, as Jo Biden said: if black Americans can’t figure out whether or not to support him over Donald Trump for president, “then you ain’t black.”!"
oh! and don't forget... If you vote republican; you aren't even a human, and should be executed
First world problems. It’s not a good look.
Here’s something that actually matters: the website that link goes to is “buildbackbetter.gov” which is the official slogan for a globalist/socialist movement called “The Great Reset” pushed by the World Economic Forum to tear down capitalism and along with it, freedom.
Everyone who voted Biden, that’s the kind of stupidity you voted for. Congrats.
A feminist's work is never done.
I've seen lots of "all women" groups in corporate America.
I've never seen an "all women" team of roofers working their asses off in the Florida sun.
I guess ripping up plywood and nailing down shingles isn't "women's work".
The point I take from Althouse is to not give a fuck about:
1. Firsts,
2. Female firsts,
3. Feminist bitchin',
4. WaPo,
5. Democraticals.
And every one of her points reinforced my understanding.
I've seen lots of "all women" groups in corporate America.
I've never seen an "all women" team of roofers working their asses off in the Florida sun.
I guess ripping up plywood and nailing down shingles isn't "women's work".
Biden has binders full of them.
90% of on the job fatalities are men.
I guess getting killed on the job isn't "women's work", either.
To learn more about The Great Reset: https://stoppingsocialism.com/category/great-reset/
They’re very upfront about it. They come right out and announce this stuff.
Might be time to wake up. Some things are far, FAR worse than Trump and his mean tweets.
Democrat Media Industrial Complex so excited to promote and gush.
Since the staggering lie put out by the Biden team is indisputably a lie, there's simply no way to spin it as true, I predict none of our resident lefties will make an appearance in this thread.
It's a pretty obvious and reliable pattern.
Our hosts long, alas, very, very long journey to conservatism.
Will she make it?????
This kind of reporting falls under National Security at the WAPO.
The real question: Did all these women pass the Biden sniff test?
The biggest advantage women have in this role is that they can label anyone who criticizes them as a sexist. #FemalePrivilege
And the march to totalitarianism continues...
They already had to walk back the “first VP of color” since the Republicans had beaten them to it a long time ago with an American Indian VP.
Female only workspaces are okay? The Biden team is forcing us to think about sexual harassment and boys' clubs. We need to be reminded nonstop that men are rapists and pigs. Anyways, maybe Biden is also saying that male only spaces are okay? If so, why not segregate boys and girls in public schools? Boys, especially boys without fathers, should be restricted to socializing solely with other boys (we don't need anymore unwed teenage moms). Boys need to relearn gender norms. (I've got a ton of single mother tenants and their sons are all a little bit off.)
Other thoughts. Are some of the women on the communications team men who identify as women? Does that count as female only? And do these women have comedic, relatable personalities?
Not only does the media lie about EVERYTHING, they lie about easily verifiable facts like this one.
Why do you read this shit?
1) Everyone knows that women who work for Republican/conservative operations aren't counted as "women."
2) Another level of sexism: women are preferred for these sorts of communications roles because any time they are challenged by a reporter, especially one from a neutral/conservative perspective, the picture of a troglodyte conservative being mean to an enlightened, modern woman will be painted. If you don't think that's a big part of the thinking, you haven't spent much time around communications professionals.
These are the kind of lies that we are used to. Why bother having a Media when they make up lies, and spew hate??? This is why America is divided and will never unite again. It is not going to end pretty, and I put the blame mostly on the Propaganda Media who joined forces with the Democrat Party to lie and brainwash the uninformed like Mark, Howard, Inga and others here.
How could I forget Chuck..the guy who pretends he was a Republican?
I'm sure the majority of the citizens in Dane County believe the "first time in history" bullshit. Who cares? I don't know how you do it Althouse. I read your blog to keep up on the propaganda output from the lying Media Masters.
It's all just lie after lie. They know we know they are lying. And they don't care.
We need to be reminded nonstop that men are rapists and pigs.
But not necessarily in that order.
And don't forget that all white people are racists, so I hope none of those people will serve in senior communications roles.
Glad to see Jen Psaki back in the mix.
The No Agenda Show podcast used to have a regular segment of her. She is always good for a laugh. I think she is there so Slo-Jo feels like he speeks gud.
Of course it is all moot since PDJT will still be president until 2025.
I like the idea that the FBI is looking into double voting in WI. The voter integrity project turned over a list of 150,000 names of people they found had voted twice from public records. Apparently the FBI came to them and asked for the list. A lot of those names are apparently in WI.
$50
John Henry
No man in his right man would sleep with any of those women.
Well it was nice to have a business
https://mobile.twitter.com/HBoushey/status/1331662423594557446?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
Several of these women worked in the Obama administration. Hopefully the work place will be a little less obnoxious towards women this time around, Obama having recently voiced his regrets about the locker room atmosphere that flourished during his time in the White House.
Not only are these all women, they are all fairly young women. I think Biden would be well served to put some more weathered faces on display, help make his own ancient look a little less obvious. And contribute to the idea that pushing 80 doesn't mean you aren't fit as a fiddle and rarin' to go.
Symone D. Sanders is an Omaha native and (unfortunately) a graduate of Creighton University. She's really an embarrassment to Creighton as she was poorly educated there.
She wrote a book titled, "No, You Shut Up." In her book she stated that she interned for federal judge Patricia Lamberty. I know Pat Lamberty. Her office used to be across the hall from mine. Good judge but she was a state court judge.
To make matters even worse, she also interned during college at the Fraser Stryker law firm. Its offices are catty corner from the county court house. The county court house was built around 1910-20. The jail used to be on the top floor. A black man was pulled from the jail and lynched. A person could not mistake the state courthouse from our Roman Hruska Federal Courthouse. Hruska courthouse is a palace. Completed in 2000 and it has 350,000 square feet.
She claimed she "sat in on depositions" with Judge Lamberty. That never happens with a judge either in state or federal court.
In other words, Sanders is a liar. A casual liar.
Blogger Jeff Brokaw said...
Here’s something that actually matters: the website that link goes to is “buildbackbetter.gov” which is the official slogan for a globalist/socialist movement called “The Great Reset” pushed by the World Economic Forum
Gee, someone has mentioned that before. Biden couldn't even come up with a campaign slogan without plagiarizing.
Or, perhaps, not plagiarism. Just another franchisee using the the brand name.
OT but another question: How is "Build Back Better" linguistically different from "Make America Great Again"?
I realize that they are ideologically very different. But linguistically they seem identical. Was Joe trying to fool people into thinking that he was a Trumpista?
Oh, well. At least we only have another month or so to kick poor Joe around. Let's enjoy it while we can.
John Henry
I realize that they are ideologically very different. But linguistically they seem identical. Was Joe trying to fool people into thinking that he was a Trumpista?
Yes.
All but two of them should restrict themselves to radio communications and print communications. We only ask people to be colorblind, not uglyblind.
Clusters of women > Binders of women
Isn't this what an all-woman communications teams is?
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-clyV-BvPLbQ/VHSjLAmsDsI/AAAAAAABHXs/yPQ93elGvl0/s1600/Women%2BTelephone%2BOperators%2Bat%2BWork%2B(17).jpg
We'd watch the usc games about 1962, and there was a segment where the players and cheerleaders said their majors.
Players were almost always Business Admin, cheerleaders Home Ec. Until one day a cheerleader said...Communications!
Look at us now!
The Image of "Ashley Etienne" makes me want to curl into a ball and hide under the sofa. She looks frightening. but maybe she's nice.
There's a reason to put women in tangential staff jobs like Comms and HR.
When anyone complains that women aren't in real jobs, they can point to all the women in Comms and HR and say how important they are.
HR & comms are important, but they are staff. They are not Defense, State, Treasury or other jobs that really matter. Those jobs are reserved for men. The women are just there for show.
John Henry
Feminists are a variety of ideologue, and ideologues - like all fanatics - are boring. Everything is seen through the lens of their fanaticism, nothing is outside of it, or irrelevant to it, and the fanatic will go on at great length about it no matter how much you demur. To quote Churchill "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
Thats a deputy at cea omg were fracked.
The real tragedy in this is how hard the Democratic transition team worked to fill all of those positions with women so that they could attempt to spike the football, only to be scored on by the defense.
"As it were, McEnany’s tweet conveniently leaves out the fact that the Trump press shop has 3 men in their 'ALL FEMALE' team.
Perhaps the operative word that George Conway leaves out of his "mansplain" is "senior"?
President@realDonaldTrump already has an ALL FEMALE Senior White House Press Team.
And maybe that's why McEnany also broke out the following non-senior positions separately individually:
So does @VP ... So does @FLOTUS... So does @SecondLady...
As Althouse points out, the difference is women in prominent positions versus a symbolic obsession.
@John Henry: that slogan “Build Back Better” is being used on political leaders websites worldwide.
I saw some graphic on Twitter showing a bunch of screenshots from such websites, all of them highlighting the slogan.
Extremely creepy, if you ask me.
Wait, what about the Special Needs raid on the CIA daycare farm in Frankfurt. This fluff post is part of the cover-up. Ann's been on the Derp State payroll for some time now.
Why are the two redheads shown in profile, not looking directly into the camera, which would be normal not just for a professional headshot but for a professional headshot for a communications job?
And these are the two highest-ranking "heads" in the department.
What are they really communicating with those headshots?
That's easy. White women are best-in-class trained like pissing puppies to submit to WOC. The Biden campaign, well-schooled in diversity dictat, scrambled the arrangement of the women rather than organizing them hierarchically, which would also be normal, and also had the two gingers look demurely away because they're terrified somebody is going to notice they put two gingers in superior positions to WOC.
Imagine the future struggle sessions. This is the road ahead. By this time next year, we'll be living in barracks(sic) and playing balalaikavas outside the glorious solar power plants.
George Conway sounds like a real asshole to me. He's basically spent the last four years attacking his own wife in public.
Communications... you know how women are.
We men will make the decisions and hash out the difficulties of policy. The women will put our thoughts into words that the little people will understand.
I get where you're coming from, but it's outdated.
When you see a press secretary speak for a major politician or government agency or corporation, there's practically an army of strategic communications apparatchiks behind her who have tried to shape every focus-group-tested word. And those pressers are a fraction of the messaging strategies developed across all kinds of platforms these days. Scott Adams has a saying, "your opinions are assigned to you," and this is what he means. The executives who run these shops are major domos in any organization of significance.
Ask Facebook and Twitter about the unimportance of communications.
(I'll add that the professions described by "communications" are heavily weighted towards women--just check out college majors in journalism, liberal arts, and.... communications. Public relations, of course. I work in what I'll loosely call a communications shop; most are women, and most of our new hires over the past decade have been women, by a mile. So this is increasingly normal staffing, despite the parades we throw when women do perfectly normal things.)
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Players were almost always Business Admin, cheerleaders Home Ec. Until one day a cheerleader said...Communications!
In 1962, most USC cheerleaders were actually pursuing Mrs. degrees.
The Image of "Ashley Etienne" makes me want to curl into a ball and hide under the sofa. She looks frightening. but maybe she's nice.
Not impossible. But it is highly improbable.
Why are the two redheads shown in profile, not looking directly into the camera, which would be normal not just for a professional headshot but for a professional headshot for a communications job?
Ginger Privilege!!!
Symone Will-Give-Anyone-the-Willies Sanders's role is that of WH bouncer and Scarer-in-Chief to any and all who won't believe the lies told by Biden and his regime.
Since all authentic feminists know that gender is only a construct created by society and has no basis in reality, these "women" can simply claim they are "men". There, Ann's problem is solved.
Build Back Better is propaganda from the Great Reset/4th Industrial Revolution folks.
If you see it-- run.
When you see a press secretary speak for a major politician or government agency or corporation, there's practically an army of strategic communications apparatchiks behind her who have tried to shape every focus-group-tested word. And those pressers are a fraction of the messaging strategies developed across all kinds of platforms these days
After 4 years of knowing exactly what's on the presidents mind whether it's good, bad, or ugly, we're returning to the old normal of meticulously crafted messaging that obscures the truth. I suppose this indicates that a large chunk of the populace prefers well crafted lies and misdirections to abrupt Tweets that clearly haven't been focus grouped. Personally I don't think that's an improvement, but it's what some people imagine as civil and presidential.
you asked for this horror show,
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2020/11/28/pandemic-nightmare-returns-supply-chains-stressed-leading-to-empty-store-shelves-n1179831
I, for one, look forward to the Communications Team yelling at me that I should know what I did wrong, and no, they aren't going to tell me what it was because I SHOULD KNOW.
What, no job for Tara Reade?
After 4 years of knowing exactly what's on the presidents mind whether it's good, bad, or ugly, we're returning to the old normal of meticulously crafted messaging that obscures the truth. I suppose this indicates that a large chunk of the populace prefers well crafted lies and misdirections to abrupt Tweets that clearly haven't been focus grouped. Personally I don't think that's an improvement, but it's what some people imagine as civil and presidential.
That "large chunk" consists basically of upper middle class white women and their browbeaten husbands. Basically the same demographic as the women who work communications jobs.
Meanwhile, back in Venezuela where it all started...
BBC: "The electoral council in Venezuela says a fire in its main warehouse near the capital, Caracas, has destroyed most of the voting machines held there. Almost 50,000 voting machines and 582 computers used in the country's elections went up in flames, electoral council chief Tibisay Lucena said. She did not say if parliamentary elections due later this year could be affected by the loss of the machines. She also asked prosecutors to investigate the cause of the fire.".......
The cause of the fire is Socialism, lady. Just like it causes destruction of evidence here. It buys off crooked officials, it burns down cities and it steals elections. And eventually, it puts take-out windows on dumpsters.
On the other hand, maybe some Venezuelan patriots set the fires because they were tired of voting on Chavez' crooked voting machines.
We know how they feel.
Build Back Better is seemingly less utopian than We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For, which local schools in my purportedly conservative district plastered all over the middle-schools and had the students chant, prompting my not-at-all-political physical therapist to pull her children out of school to homeschool them, declaring it the last of many such disturbing incidents.
*seemingly* less utopian, or, worked over by an all-female communications staff to placate the all-male Florida roofing crews...
Like many feminist ideals; it isn't the idea being implemented that's important, it is who implemented it that is important. Trump wasn't the acceptable person, so he can't get credit.
following from last night's thread, I tracked some info, from another tip that codemonkey got, re dominion and data transfer from a swedish company which happens to be located in frankfurt at rebstocker 55,
That this group must somehow form a family
That's the way we all became the Biden Bunch
it's a global strategem, that we've spotted in the uk, in pakistan in new zealand, all part of klaus schwab's secret sauce,
We men will make the decisions and hash out the difficulties of policy. The women will put our thoughts into words that the little people will understand.
Don't forget HR. How do you think big tech companies maintain their feminist cred?
judge batten finally issued an order to secure the machines in the relevant counties, although the state officials dodged their connections to dominion,
JFC, it's like an after school special.
Check all the goddamn boxes.
Where are the Asians? The handicapped? Probably a lesbian in there somewhere.
What a clusterfuck these next few years might be...
Ask any experienced full-stack web-developer about "front-end" vs. "back-end" site development.
Women in the industry commonly work on design elements - making the screen pretty - while the logical and algorithmic heavy lifting is done by men.
Mention it in public, though, and the witches in HR will James Damore you, and the pencil necks in the C-Suite will knuckle under.
The evil left does this intentionally because they know it fills you people with anger, jealousy, rage, hormonal imbalance and the heartbreak of psoriasis.
“Wait, what about the Special Needs raid on the CIA daycare farm in Frankfurt. This fluff post is part of the cover-up. Ann's been on the Derp State payroll for some time now.”
Ha, I heard George Soros was arrested by a team of all female DOD agents for election meddling.
"For the first time in history, these communications roles will be filled entirely by women."
If you think it's important to tell people about stuff like this, you're not making the point you think you are.
If you think it's important to tell people about stuff like this, you're not making the point you think you are.
Anyone in a position of power who thinks that this is important is the kind of person who won't hire competent people to fill those positions.
Good Morning, Inga! Nothing like a large bowl of schadenfreude to go along with the morning coffee. Thanks Althouse deplorables!
Even when they team up, trolls are insufferable.
What do they need such a large staff for? Can't Biden just tweet?
"We'd watch the usc games about 1962, and there was a segment where the players and cheerleaders said their majors."
There was a redheaded USC cheerleader c. 1970, was so beautiful ABC included her in the opening montage to their college football broadcasts.
The NY Times has the big scoop about the incoming Biden Administration:
A Cat Is Said to Be Joining the Bidens in the White House
I recognize Jen Psaki's name--a particularly loathsome creature form the late Obama Admin. and H. Clinton's campaign.
As for the rest, a few quick searches confirm a bunch of mediocrities, even as Democratic Party hacks go. But, given the source, maybe mediocrity is the best one should expect.
And, as always among our ruling class (both parties), they pat themselves on the back for promoting a handful of people who are already at their level of incompetence and who don't need the help, while thousands and millions who DO need a hand up suffer in silence.
But can any of them kick a field goal?
What happens when all of their cycles synch up?
Will they all be incredibly bitchy for the same week of the month?
It's the elephant in the room...
The joint probability that all women were chose for all these positions entirely on merit is equivalent to Biden being elected given the contravening circumstantial statistical indicators (bellwether counties, congressional races, 3 standard deviation turn-out rates, etc.).
In other words, not bloody likely.
Which one? : )
Back then, cheerleaders were picked on the basis of hotness.
If she stood out amongst cheerleaders in Los Angeles then she would have been a serious looker.
Nowadays cheerleaders are like the cast of television ad: Asian, check! Black, check! Handicapped, check! Dude who looks like a woman, check!
We've really lost it as a nation.
"The joint probability that all women were chose for all these positions entirely on merit is equivalent to Biden being elected given the contravening circumstantial statistical indicators (bellwether counties, congressional races, 3 standard deviation turn-out rates, etc.)."
This supposes that, at the very highest level, there isn't a single man on the planet who is better at his job than their weakest link.
"In other words, not bloody likely."
See my comment at 10:41am.
Blogger Jeff Brokaw said...
@John Henry: that slogan “Build Back Better” is being used on political leaders websites worldwide.
Yes, as the No Agenda Show podcast has been pointing out since Joe introduced it. With countless examples and audio clips.
John Henry
There is no point to modern day feminism. It is an ideology subscribed to by wealthy white women, mostly in Universities and rich powerful corporations. The oppressed and offended nature of it is a joke. This generation, of mostly white women, is the most pampered, underworked and overpaid group in history. But it is typical of leftists to celebrate such nonsense. Oh, and if any of those dilettantes received 1/2 the flack and disrespect the Republican women face, daily, the press involved would be sanctioned within seconds. Lots of good feminist males in the Dem stable.
"Anyone in a position of power who thinks that this is important is the kind of person who won't hire competent people to fill those positions."
You mean like choosing your running mate based on sex and skin color?
"What happens when all of their cycles synch up?
Will they all be incredibly bitchy for the same week of the month?
It's the elephant in the room..."
Catfights over handbags and tears in the toilets. When this producer launched a women-only TV company she thought she'd kissed goodbye to conflict...
It was an idealistic vision swiftly shattered by the nightmare reality: constant bitchiness, surging hormones, unchecked emotion, attention-seeking and fashion rivalry so fierce it tore my staff apart.
The thing I find most amusing about this is the assumption that "women's work" == "inferior work"
In the 70s, feminists wanted to have "real jobs" and live "real lives", which mean they wanted to work, screw, and just generally be like men.
Now? Now they're "non-binary".
Why is it that women so hate being women?
My headline for the story: PINK COLLAR GHETTO IN THE WHITE HOUSE?
Howard said...
The evil left does this intentionally because they know it fills you people with anger, jealousy, rage, hormonal imbalance and the heartbreak of psoriasis.
Are you really that blind / stupid Howard?
We're laughing at you, not enraged
Oh, Lord, "The Office of the President-Elect".
There is no fucking "Office of the President-Elect"! A bunch of kids could get together in a tree-house & call themselves "The Office of the President-Elect" & it would be just as official. That's some stupid shit that the Obama-ites made up & the press just let them skate on it. Of course. The status of the "President-Elect" is very murky under the Constitution (e.g. what's the succession order should the President-Elect die), and the PE has no official role in the government. Right now, the "Office of the President Elect" only official status is as a GSA work order.
And to use the Presidential Seal! What nerve! I worked for the Executive Office of the President for 8 years & consulted back twice after. If I used the seal as part of my advertising for my company, the government would come after me with a cease & desist order. In my time at the Executive Office, more than one vendor was told to get the seal off their advertising.
Don't even get me started on the fact that the electors haven't voted yet.
"A bunch of kids could get together in a tree-house & call themselves "The Office of the President-Elect" & it would be just as official."
Or the 'He-Man Woman-Haters Club'...
YH, I wondered about the OPE myself, and commented about Biden dusting off the podium that Obama used.
As it turns out and you know better than I, there is a status but it's not clear.
Unfortunately for my own prejudices, the seal and trappings of the OPE, while invented by BHO in 2008 out of thin air, were also adopted by Trump in 2016. That I recalled Obama's farce and not Trump's just means that I actually watched some of Obama's bloviations at the OPE podium, and none of Trump's.
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OPE is stipulated in Emanation Eight of the Penumbras Clause of the USC
So will WaPo add this to the count of Biden's lies like they would do with Trump?
@Joe Smith,
Or the 'He-Man Woman-Haters Club'...
Don't laugh. It was diverse avant la lettre. Having both Buckwheat & that acme of Aryan manhood, Alfalfa, in the same room must have moved the needle, zeitgeist-wise.
It was an idealistic vision swiftly shattered by the nightmare reality: constant bitchiness, surging hormones, unchecked emotion, attention-seeking and fashion rivalry so fierce it tore my staff apart.
As Al Bundy told his son, Bud: "Don't try to understand women - women understand women and they hate each other."
Great. Four years of female ululations from the White House.
Just great.
I think #2 is really a man.. I swear
All you need to know about George Conway is that he tweets mincing nitpicking things like "Kayleigh NcEnerny is a lair because there are actually men employed in the communications office!!" (I paraphrase), instead of having the common decency, self awareness and/or class to say:
"I have my differences with Donald Trump, but he did put my wife in charge of his election campaign, a very real, substantive historic first for women, so maybe I should just shut up about this."
Important because...Vagina!
>>Mention it in public, though, and the witches in HR
My experience is anecdotal only, but women do seem to be, what's the PC word.... overrepresented.... in HR departments.
What if the headline were, For The First Time In History, The Senior WH Press Staff Will Include Only Competent, Honest, and Accessible Personnel.
Why would Althouse put this Kayleigh thing here w/o taking half a second to scan the comments that are associated w/ the Tweet?
Not even a wee bit of a question re the truthfulness? From the DJT admin? You know, so you don’t look like you have been fooled, if not because promoting fake news is not a good idea in any situation.
Anywho, according to Althouse’s logic VP-ing is now woman’s work. And economics is woman’s work, with some dudes around as diversity hires.
Sheesh.
P.S. When Althouse reads this post as part of her podcast will she repeat Kayleigh film flam? So embarrassing to be so easily (eagerly?) fooled.
I'm looking forward to all the bitching. The NY Post's Page 6 will be on fire!
In a tech firm, it is women's work. Easier than sales or programming. Diversity metrics don't look as bad. Then they email each other saying "you go girl".
It probably took all seven of them to dream up that bullshit story about Joe and his dog.
Bragging about an all-female comms team is like bragging about an all-female Human Resources team. Big deal, 100% instead of the usual 90%.
Since they are in comms, shouldn't the group of ladies be referred to as a Gaggle of Womens instead of Cluster?
My experience is anecdotal only, but women do seem to be, what's the PC word.... overrepresented.... in HR departments.
The report I read said that women hold somewhere around 70% of HR positions.
That's when I knew the whole narrative about women being paid $.77 on the dollar compared to men was bullsh*t. Can you imagine the conspiracy of silence maintained by that many women who had access to their own company's payroll information?
Do they all smell good? Asking for a presumptive President Elect.
True, all of Trump's senior communications personnel are female, but Biden's have already managed to synchronize their cycles, and that's big news.
Just circle the 28th of every month on your calendars, guys!
Cluster is such a nice word. Here's a little ditty that Handel set to music (words by Gay, Pope, and Hughes):
Polyphemus (yeah, that one) sings of his love for the nymph Galatea:
O ruddier than the cherry,
O sweeter than the berry,
O nymph more bright
Than moon-shine night,
Like kidlings blithe and merry.
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Ripe as the melting cluster,
No lily has such luster,
But hard to tame as raging flame,
And fierce as storms that bluster!
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I predict a B-H WH clusterfuck, and not in the good way
Attack lying vs. fawning? Do these "news" reporters know any other tricks?
I spent yesterday reading Mollie Hemingway's "Justice on Trial" about the Kavanaugh appointment. She names people who said really partisan and stupid things--all of them in the "fourth estate." If these "news" hacks did this all the time, it would be one thing, but the waste product they generate only flows in one direction.
Let's say for the sake of argument that having women in every senior position is really some big deal.
Why is not having any men in that department to be considered an achievement? Is that really something anybody wants to boast about?
Arguably, getting guys to answer the phones for their woman bosses earns more feminist gloat points.
As I said, it's interests. Say you're a woman economist, for example today's econtalk podcast
Economist and author Emily Oster of Brown University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the challenge of reopening schools in a pandemic. Oster has been collecting data from K-12 schools around the country. Her preliminary analysis finds little evidence that schools are super-spreaders of COVID. She argues that closing schools comes at a high cost for the students with little benefit in reducing the spread of the disease. The conversation ends with a discussion of parenting.
DanTheMan,
90% of on the job fatalities are men.
Assuming that's the number of people who died while "on the clock," the true disparity is probably even bigger. People do occasionally drop dead on work time for non-work-related reasons, and I'm assuming that men and women are equal in this regard. Subtract them, leaving people who died on the job because of specific work-related dangers, and that will skew even higher towards men. Apart from prostitution and (now) policing, all the very nasty, high-death-risk occupations I can think of are large-majority-male, sometimes to the practical exclusion of women.
One of these years, I'd like to see someone try actually to "fix" this, to mandate that women get 50 percent of all the jobs. I mean all. They will be half of your construction crew, half of your sanitation crew, half of the divers who search for your child that fell in the river, half the firefighters, half the repo (wo)men, half the mechanics, half the locksmiths, half the people servicing oil rigs, half the lumberjacks, half the butchers, half the fisher-er-persons. Half the exterminators, half the sewer maintenance people, half the concrete-pourers, half the steel-pourers, half the bridge-designers.
Meanwhile, men will be half the retail clerks, half the massage therapists, half the elementary-school teachers, half the nannies, half the hotel cleaning staff, half the people manning(?) the fragrance dept. at Macy's, half the flower arrangers, half the feng shui specialists.
I think the women would find, in short order, that being in a "male profession," especially a largely-outdoor one or one that entails dirty fingernails, isn't really for them; while the men would rapidly get bored. The women are likely bored already, but their boredom comes attached to a nice indoor environment, not much accountability, and a steady paycheck, so that's OK.
If a man ran HR and a pissant came in who was offended about some trivial bullshit, the man would tell him or her to grow a pair. Feminizing the workplace has resulted in people who are afraid to talk to each other in fear of a sexual harassment complaint.
THEOLDMAN
All my FWBs are women. So I've got that going for me.
Because nothing says empowerment and self-respect like being an affirmative action appointee. And even if chosen on merit, proving that you can be just as much a brainless cog in a political PR machine as any man is not exactly a great achievement.
The three big identity movements (blacks, women, and gays) have undergone an interesting trajectory. They've all essentially won. And on a massive scale. All three group have been assimilated into the wider social structure. Most of the members recognize this and have gotten on with living their lives. What's left is a small contingent of dykes, Jewish neurotics, and ambiguous ethnics.
I come from a long line of Florida cracker hellcats. Women who a century ago were tougher, feistier, and more hard-headed than anything being produced by contemporary liberal feminism. They had tremendous respect for the power and responsibility of the matriarch in maintaining the family fortress that nourishes and protects against the vicissitudes of life. They never tried to be as good as men. They tried to be as good as women.
"They've all essentially won. And on a massive scale. All three group have been assimilated into the wider social structure."
Except everyone looks askance as many are quota hires.
How do you know who got in on merit?
That's the problem...
If I were black and qualified I would be seriously pissed off.
The toxic male politician is the one who uses his office primarily for sex with subordinates based on a power dynamic. His office oath is less important to him.
The corresponding toxicity with women is a stonewalling committee of women that virtue signals from a base of power. Big Sister. China was full of this in its revolution.
Don't put weak men and women into an office that grants them power.
Men or women can do any job, but how well the job sustains interest varies greatly by sex.
Equal in rights and complementary in Nature.
There is a blog standard coming with a Biden admin that will just leave Inga and Chuck as commenters. They are pre approved. The rest of you need better social credit scores.
Marcus said...
If a man ran HR and a pissant came in who was offended about some trivial bullshit, the man would tell him or her to grow a pair.
This is true. I have seen this in action.
She argues that closing schools comes at a high cost for the students with little benefit in reducing the spread of the disease.
Quite the opposite. Slow the spread or whatever came at a forward-looking cost of community immunity that reduces infection vectors and increased risk for the most vulnerable. After the third month, we knew the risk profiles. We knew that the disease in children, in particular, was unlikely to progress. The restrictive mandates, any social gathering, where diversity is greater than one, over time and space, is a potential spreading event. I suppose it's easier to monitor groups of ten, rather than ten meetings over a day, a week. And, of course, transmission modes matter.
>>One of these years, I'd like to see someone try actually to "fix" this, to mandate that women get 50 percent of all the jobs.
I have a modest proposal: For every man that dies on the job, randomly execute a working woman to make the numbers even out. Women could be exempt from the Fatal Employment Equity Lottery (FEEL) by remaining home and taking care of the house.
I'm certain there could be no objection to such a reasonable and fair proposal. :)
DTM@814-- genius!
Women who want it all labor under the delusion that men have it all.
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They are learning the hard way that we don't and never have
Please note that I made this (admittedlyratherobvious) joke hours before the professionals.
at the nation's news source of record.
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