Romney’s Take on Lady Workers

victoriadahl:

I really can’t get past this. It’s getting worse for me. Last night was bad enough, but now that I’ve read the words, now that I’ve seen them with my own lady(eye)balls, I’m dumbfounded, outraged, insulted, pissed, sickened, and exasperated. 

Read it. Nearly every line is an insult. I’ve highlighted my favorites. 

Now, one of the reasons I was able to get so many good women to be part of that team was because of our recruiting effort, but number two, because I recognized that if you’re going to have women in the workforce, that sometimes they need to be more flexible. My chief of staff, for instance, had two kids that were still in school. She said, I can’t be here until 7:00 or 8:00 at night. I need to be able to get home at 5:00 so I can be there for — making dinner for my kids and being with them when they get home from school. So we said, fine, let’s have a flexible schedule so you can have hours that work for you.
We’re going to have to have employers in the new economy, in the economy I’m going to bring to play, that are going to be so anxious to get good workers they’re going to be anxious to hire women. In the — in the last four years, women have lost 580,000 jobs. That’s the net of what’s happened in the last four years. We’re still down 580,000 jobs. I mentioned 3 1/2 million women more now in poverty than four years ago.
What we can do to help young women and women of all ages is to have a strong economy, so strong that employers are looking to find good employees and bringing them into their workforce and adapting to a — a flexible work schedule that gives women the opportunities that — that they would otherwise not be able to — to afford.
What the fuck does THAT mean? 
And that doesn’t even cover the binders full of women. A story which isn’t even true. The real story is here: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/10/fact-checking-mitt-romneys-women-binders/58040/ Or the fact that this businessman and CEO didn’t know about workplace inequality until he became Governor of Massachusetts. My brain is in little bits. I’d better pick them all up before my husband gets home and asks why the house is such a mess.