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NEW YORK: State GOP Sen. Marty Golden To Teach Class On Feminine Elegance
Anti-gay New York GOP state Sen. Marty Golden thinks women need to start acting like proper ladies. And he's going to teach a class on how to do just that. City & State reports:
Later this month, Republican State Sen. Marty Goldens office is holding a career-development event for women in his southern Brooklyn district teaching them Posture, Deportment and the Feminine Presence. Thats according to a taxpayer-funded mailing being sent out in Goldens district, which an offended reader passed along. The taxpayer-funded event presented by a certified protocol consultant is part of a series teaching women in Brooklyn whats new in the 21st century as it relates to business etiquette and social protocol. More details are also available on Goldens Senate website, including the fact that women in attendance will be taught to, Sit, stand and walk like a model, how to, Walk up and down a stair elegantly and Differences in American and Continental rules governing handshakes and introductions.
Golden says his classes are meant to help young women get jobs, therefore you are paying for it.
http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2012/07/new-york-state-gop-sen-marty-golden-to.html
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(51,478 posts)Lucy Goosey
(2,940 posts)...although I guess there are so many old male politicians in the country who want to tell me what I can and can't do with my uterus I shouldn't be surprised that they are trying to tell women how to sit, stand and walk up and down stairs.
Even ignoring the blatant sexism of this, it's just really insulting to assume that people who are unemployed don't know how to sit or stand or generally how to behave in professional or social situations. It calls to mind that other politician a while back who wanted to use an old prison to house the unemployed to teach them things like personal cleanliness. (I'm not making that up, am I? I'm pretty sure that really happened?) Implied in all of this is that people are only unemployed because they lack very basic social skills like standing up straight and bathing.
People aren't losing their jobs because they use the American handshake protocol with a European client, they're losing their jobs because the economy is fucked. Teaching women that they need to walk like a model for any job other than modelling is so offensive I want to scream.