{"id":14418,"date":"2011-11-01T19:02:08","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T02:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14418"},"modified":"2011-11-01T19:02:08","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T02:02:08","slug":"its-getting-so-you-cant-tell-a-woman-she-has-to-sleep-with-you-to-get-a-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14418","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Getting So You Can&#8217;t Tell a Woman She Has to Sleep With You to Get a Promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t had much to say about Herman Cain&#8217;s sexual harassment of a couple former subordinates, because frankly, nothing I could say would be more damaging to Cain than his own&#8230;er&#8230;&#8221;evolving&#8221; statements have been. Protip: When denying a sexual harassment settlement, it helps for there not to have been a sexual harassment settlement, and no, nobody outside of the fringe is buying the &#8220;it was an agreement, not a settlement&#8221; line.<\/p>\n<p>Still, because Herman Cain is a Republican, Republicans have felt compelled to come out and defend him against those joyless women who obviously hate men. I mean, those ugly feminists should be\u00a0<em>grateful<\/em>\u00a0that a powerful man would demean and sexualize them in the workplace, amirite?<\/p>\n<p>Leading the charge is Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/2012.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2011\/11\/rand-paul-on-cain-scandal-its-getting-to-where-you-cant-joke-with-women-anymore.php\" target=\"_blank\">proving yet again<\/a>\u00a0that the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=13&amp;ved=0CC4QFjACOAo&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmoderateleft.com%2F%3Fp%3D3932&amp;ei=K6SwTrSyLom02gWw96DAAw&amp;usg=AFQjCNEjM8B0iu-lCKVVWywf5q0qyRqXtA&amp;sig2=eh3kgjBLfFA1pBuFvkLLsA\" target=\"_blank\">apple doesn&#8217;t fall far from the tree<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has an interesting take on Herman Cain\u2019s growing scandal: honestly, he says, these days it seems like women can\u2019t take a joke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are people now who hesitate to tell a joke to a woman in the workplace, any kind of joke, because it could be interpreted incorrectly,\u201d he\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/281904\/paul-blasts-ipoliticoi-story-i-dont-think-you-should-print-stuff-betsy-woodruff\">told the National Review<\/a>. \u201cI don\u2019t. I\u2019m very cautious.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, yeah. I mean, you\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/10\/aqua-buddha-victim-speaks-out-on-conway-ad.php\" target=\"_blank\">kidnap one girl<\/a>, and the next thing you know, she&#8217;s mad at you! Women. Amirite?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t had much to say about Herman Cain&#8217;s sexual harassment of a couple former subordinates, because frankly, nothing I could say would be more damaging to Cain than his own&#8230;er&#8230;&#8221;evolving&#8221; statements have been. Protip: When denying a sexual harassment &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14418\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-and-politics","category-feminism-sexism-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14419,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14418\/revisions\/14419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}