Chief of Staff honors women

Trump's Chief of Staff, General John Kelly, is supposed to be the adult in the White House.

The White House spokespeople said they haven't seen Kelly have a negative effect on the morale of women staffers. If anything, they said during meetings Kelly is the "bigger gentleman" who steps in when aides use foul language to note "a lady is present" and similarly says he shouldn't use foul language in front of a lady if he's used an expletive. The spokespeople, who would not speak for the record, said it's possible Kelly may have said women are more emotional than men, with one of them agreeing that "generally speaking, women are more emotional than men.” Link

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Fuck that noise.

Being the "bigger gentleman" by treating women like they're delicate flowers removes them from important deliberative and decision-making opportunities. Putting women on a pedestal neither honors nor dignifies women, it isolates them and perpetuates the same paternalistic attitudes that keep women from leadership positions and true equality. It's patronizing, outdated, stupid and useless. I don't care if Kelly is an old guy who pines for the "good old days". It's the 21st century, grow the hell up.

And I won't even go into the obvious idiocy of "women are more emotional than men."

Seriously, fuck that noise.