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Elizabeth Warren says she's been treated differently in the Senate but won't say how

Re: Elizabeth Warren says she's been treated differently in the Senate but won't say

4) The Senate is a good old boys club full of male chauvinists and naming names is a good way to torpedo any ability to work with the accused members and all the rest of the good old boys who don't see a problem treating the little women like second class interlopers in their exclusive club.

Goodness, has no one ever known a woman who's worked (in the South at least) in a professional environment dominated by men?
Hillary was in the Senate. Did she complain about it? But I see that your standard is that when a woman is the victim of a 'good old boys club' she is supposed to remain quiet and in her place, right? The truth is, making a broad claim as she did then refusing to name names is the height of cowardice pure and simple.
 
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I'm not aware of any WOMAN who would counsel that, unless the person naming names wanted to burn her bridges at that place as a parting shot out the door.
Nonsense. Warren naming names would make her the darling of the media (more so than she already is for some unkown reason). What might be true for a WalMart employee is not true in the case of Warren. If there is one woman in America who could champion the cause of women on this issue it is Warren. And if she refuses to do so for her own narrow political gain, then she is a pathetic hypocrite.
 
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Warren is being hyped and groomed for big things from inside and from outside her Party.

And this harms that effort. BO knew to play by the rules.
She is not nearly as clever as she thinks.
 
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And this harms that effort. BO knew to play by the rules.
She is not nearly as clever as she thinks.

She's reinforcing every stereotype about women imaginable.
 
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I'm not aware of any WOMAN who would counsel that, unless the person naming names wanted to burn her bridges at that place as a parting shot out the door.

Like I said, my wife is in a heavily male dominated field and has faced this issue in every job, and we discuss 'what to do' all the time. I could talk about a dozen examples, and the only time she's taken an action that 'named names' was a senior person who made repeated, and unwelcome 'advances' and wouldn't take "NO!" for an answer. She did name a name in that case.

In order to make a claim of discrimination, you have to name names. Otherwise I could just say "I'm being discriminated against" without any facts, and that would not hold up in a court of law.
 
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My heart bleeds for Pocohontas Warren. I haven't heard Michelle Bachmann or Kristi Noem complain about being treated differently in the House, with all those men checking them out.
 
Re: Elizabeth Warren says she's been treated differently in the Senate but won't say

I think there are three possibilities here:
1) She is lying
2) She is just your typical hypersensitive liberal who thinks there is an 'ism' at fault every time she doesn't get her way
3) The one you mentioned--that those treating her badly are the male members of her own political party. But she would hardly be the first leftist to overlook bad behavior for the furtherance of her ideology.

I think she may be telling the truth in some ways. But the fact that she won't mention specifics leads me to believe it's her own party members.
 
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Hillary was in the Senate. Did she complain about it? But I see that your standard is that when a woman is the victim of a 'good old boys club' she is supposed to remain quiet and in her place, right? The truth is, making a broad claim as she did then refusing to name names is the height of cowardice pure and simple.

You're not even trying to have a rational discussion, so I won't bother trying. I'll just point out a couple of things.

1) My wife deals with this all the time, and it's a difficult tightrope to walk for women.

2) The institutional expectation is women keep their little mouths shut about it, and only get to complain if they're groped or raped or their jobs made contingent on those acts, and sometimes they're expected to remain quiet even in those cases, the sluts asked for it.... which is part of the problem women face in the real world.

3) She was posed a question and answered it. If she'd named names, you'd condemn her for that. She didn't name names, so she's condemned for that. Like I said in my first response, she's in a no-win situation here. She could have said it's all rosy and her old, white male colleagues were a bunch of enlightened gentlemen who welcome women into their club, but no one not ignorant or stupid should believe that.
 
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I can't believe the question is very hard. She's put in a no-win situation. Nothing she can say would be anything more than 'she said/he said,' everyone who likes her believes her, everyone who doesn't calls her a whining b**ch, it's a tough place, get over it, etc., the media goes into a frenzy about the individual allegations, which in most cases is a sort of indirect 'bias' if it's like the places where my wife has worked for 25 years and doesn't lend itself to a concrete claim, and any concrete claims probably not provable in any real sense unless recorded on video.

And I don't know what it's like where you live, but in this part of the world, it's getting better but certainly common for people in position of power to continue to be male chauvinists, at least in the workplace. I've seen it in every larger office I've worked in. My wife's current ultimate boss has said in public that he doesn't believe women SHOULD work, presumably their place is at home, pregnant, barefoot, in the kitchen. And in a place like the Senate, with a bunch of older white men who've had their rear ends kissed for decades, on both sides of the aisle, it would be shocking and unbelievable if women weren't facing large professional obstacles. It's a good old boys club - look at the roster. We're breaking all time records in 2014, but there are still only 16 democratic women and 4 republican women. According to wiki there have only been 44 women senators in history.

When they discussed this on Morning Joe, they reminded everyone how Mika Brzezinski (spelling?) took everyone at MSNBC to task when she found out she wasn't being paid what her male counterparts were being paid. She named her boss, the President of the network, and others. That's what you need to do.

I live in NH. I have a staff of 12 direct reports - all but 1 of them male. I've been a manager in some capacity since I was 26. I've never had an issue with mistreatment by men. Maybe I'm one of the lucky ones.
 
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When they discussed this on Morning Joe, they reminded everyone how Mika Brzezinski (spelling?) took everyone at MSNBC to task when she found out she wasn't being paid what her male counterparts were being paid. She named her boss, the President of the network, and others. That's what you need to do.

Sheesh, apples and dump truck comparison there. Pay discrepancies are black and white. Just compare two numbers.

If you read the "allegations" by Kirsten Gillebrand, they involved the good old boys behaving like typical, entitled male chauvinists which there isn't actually any law against. Gillibrand didn't allege anything that would be actionable against any employer - just that there's a club, women aren't really part of it, and that's a problem for women in a male dominated workplace.

I live in NH. I have a staff of 12 direct reports - all but 1 of them male. I've been a manager in some capacity since I was 26. I've never had an issue with mistreatment by men. Maybe I'm one of the lucky ones.

Maybe not 'lucky' - that's how it should be. But certainly women having problems at work because they're women isn't exactly rare in this region. I've seen it in every office. If you worked where I have and didn't admit it's a problem, you were blind or a cause of the problem. It's not subtle. Women CAN succeed, but it's much harder.
 
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Sheesh, apples and dump truck comparison there. Pay discrepancies are black and white. Just compare two numbers.

If you read the "allegations" by Kirsten Gillebrand, they involved the good old boys behaving like typical, entitled male chauvinists which there isn't actually any law against. Gillibrand didn't allege actionable crimes - just that there's a club, women aren't really part of it, and that's a problem for women in a male dominated workplace.



Maybe not 'lucky' - that's how it should be. But certainly women having problems at work because they're women isn't exactly rare. I've seen it in every office. If you worked where I have and didn't admit it's a problem, you were blind or a cause of the problem. It's not subtle. Women CAN succeed, but it's much harder.

So in other words, they should complain about it, but not actually do anything about it. Got it.

I wasn't the cause of any woman not moving up the ladder. Everyplace I've ever worked had women in high level positions. Most of them were role models for me.

Women have always been welcome in the "clubs" in all the places I work. I much prefer the company of men to women myself.
 
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Elizabeth Warren says she's been treated differently in the Senate but won't say how

Sen. Elizabeth Warren says she has been treated differently as a woman in Congress.

But unlike Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who opened up about her experience with sexism on Capitol Hill in a recent book, Warren — the first woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts — won't elaborate.

In an interview with CNN scheduled to air Wednesday, Warren was asked whether she had experienced treatment similar to what Gillibrand described.

"Yes," Warren said.

Would she care to elaborate?

"Nope," she said. "I've said all I'm going to say."

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First off, she looks nuts in that picture.

Second, she (and her Democratic counterparts in DC) push female citizens to fight against treatment like this, at the risk of alienating their bosses and co-workers, etc. But Senator Warren doesn't want to name names? Doesn't want to provide specifics? Doesn't want to fight it?

What am I missing here?


Morons are treated differently in all aspects of life.
 
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So in other words, they should complain about it, but not actually do anything about it. Got it.

She was asked a question. Is she expected to lie? And if not, burn her relationships with members of the Senate by naming names?

I don't think your expectations are reasonable. You're ignoring the consequences of making inflammatory, specific claims about some of the most powerful individuals in the country.

I wasn't the cause of any woman not moving up the ladder. Everyplace I've ever worked had women in high level positions. Most of them were role models for me.

Women have always been welcome in the "clubs" in all the places I work. I much prefer the company of men to women myself.

That's fantastic, but I'm telling you with 100% certainty that your experience is FAR from universal. You don't even disagree - you said there was probably "some truth" to her claims, but decided based on nothing that the offenders must all be democrats.

Look at the responses here. That almost all of them have dismissed the claims out of hand should clue you in on the problem she'd face by "naming names" with nothing but her word to back them up.
 
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You're not even trying to have a rational discussion, so I won't bother trying. I'll just point out a couple of things.

1) My wife deals with this all the time, and it's a difficult tightrope to walk for women.

2) The institutional expectation is women keep their little mouths shut about it, and only get to complain if they're groped or raped or their jobs made contingent on those acts, and sometimes they're expected to remain quiet even in those cases, the sluts asked for it.... which is part of the problem women face in the real world.

3) She was posed a question and answered it. If she'd named names, you'd condemn her for that. She didn't name names, so she's condemned for that. Like I said in my first response, she's in a no-win situation here. She could have said it's all rosy and her old, white male colleagues were a bunch of enlightened gentlemen who welcome women into their club, but no one not ignorant or stupid should believe that.
I am being completely rational. It is you who are not thinking clearly and are responding emotionally based upon experiences of your wife. Now, get a hold of yourself and try to look at the issue objectively. Warren is not your wife, she is not some poor downtrodden soul buried in a corporate good old boy network. She is a US senator and a darling of the media. If she is being victimized by elected members of the US senate then she should expose them FOR THE BENEFIT OF PEOPLE LIKE YOUR WIFE WHO CANNOT DO IT. How do you not understand this?
 
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She was asked a question. Is she expected to lie? And if not, burn her relationships with members of the Senate by naming names?

I don't think your expectations are reasonable. You're ignoring the consequences of making inflammatory, specific claims about some of the most powerful individuals in the country.



That's fantastic, but I'm telling you with 100% certainty that your experience is FAR from universal. You don't even disagree - you said there was probably "some truth" to her claims, but decided based on nothing that the offenders must all be democrats.

Look at the responses here. That almost all of them have dismissed the claims out of hand should clue you in on the problem she'd face by "naming names" with nothing but her word to back them up.


No, she shouldn't lie. I don't recall saying she should lie, did I?

She is making the claim, and she should either do something about it, or back off it. She can't have it both ways.
 
Re: Elizabeth Warren says she's been treated differently in the Senate but won't say

I am being completely rational. It is you who are not thinking clearly and are responding emotionally based upon experiences of your wife. Now, get a hold of yourself and try to look at the issue objectively. Warren is not your wife, she is not some poor downtrodden soul buried in a corporate good old boy network. She is a US senator and a darling of the media. If she is being victimized by elected members of the US senate then she should expose them FOR THE BENEFIT OF PEOPLE LIKE YOUR WIFE WHO CANNOT DO IT. How do you not understand this?

Good gosh, Elizabeth Warren didn't claim to be a 'victim.' She didn't allege sexual harassment or abuse. So she has nothing to win by 'naming names' for the kinds of issues alleged by Sen. Gillibrand, which she agreed to WHEN ASKED DIRECTLY, which were that at least some entitled, coddled, white male chauvinists in the Senate behave like they do in many male dominated institutions, which is that some of them continue to treat women as less than equals. In anything other than this political environment, the appropriate response is "yeah, no shiate, and the sky is blue."

The basic problem is simple. The House is roughly 80% male, Senate 80% male (all time records), I don't have the stats, but the key lobbyists at least 80% male, partners at key D.C. law firms almost all male, CEOs nearly 100% male, and so the most powerful institutions across the board in America have been male dominated for longer than we've been a country. Through much of that history, including much of my lifetime, the percentages were nearly 100% across the board. Those institutions are changing, but it will take another generation or two to complete, and really all she said was they hadn't YET.
 
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No, she shouldn't lie. I don't recall saying she should lie, did I?

I provided two options. See the sentence directly following that starts out, "And if not,...."

She is making the claim, and she should either do something about it, or back off it. She can't have it both ways.

She answered a question. And for some reason, you're convinced that the ONLY option she has to "do something about it" is to publicly name names and accuse her Senate colleagues of misdeeds, even if unprovable beyond a claim of 'she said/he said.' Based on my experiences, that's a stupid strategy unless your goal is to burn your bridges and go to work somewhere else.
 
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Good gosh, Elizabeth Warren didn't claim to be a 'victim.' She didn't allege sexual harassment or abuse. So she has nothing to win by 'naming names' for the kinds of issues alleged by Sen. Gillibrand, which she agreed to WHEN ASKED DIRECTLY, which were that at least some entitled, coddled, white male chauvinists in the Senate behave like they do in many male dominated institutions, which is that some of them continue to treat women as less than equals. In anything other than this political environment, the appropriate response is "yeah, no shiate, and the sky is blue."

The basic problem is simple. The House is roughly 80% male, Senate 80% male (all time records), I don't have the stats, but the key lobbyists at least 80% male, partners at key D.C. law firms almost all male, CEOs nearly 100% male, and so the most powerful institutions across the board in America have been male dominated for longer than we've been a country. Through much of that history, including much of my lifetime, the percentages were nearly 100% across the board. Those institutions are changing, but it will take another generation or two to complete, and really all she said was they hadn't YET.

So she, like Senator Gillbrand, is just going to claim it happens, but never name names.

Excellent political ploy there. Gin up the "war on women" crap. She's pretty smart after all.
 
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So she, like Senator Gillbrand, is just going to claim it happens, but never name names.

Excellent political ploy there. Gin up the "war on women" crap. She's pretty smart after all.

Right, because women have two options - scorched earth or keep their pretty little mouths shut.....:doh
 
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I've never had an issue with mistreatment by men.
Really!

Never every once?

Have you every been mistreated by women (snide comments to barriers for advancement)?

PS...no requirement to name names.
 
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Right, because women have two options - scorched earth or keep their pretty little mouths shut.....:doh

Without names the claims are meaningless and can neither be proven or disproven. If she isn't going to name any names she is wasting her time and everyone elses. Oh and yes, without names it does appear to be nothing but a political ploy. Sorry, but this kind of crap has been pulled plenty of times before, so the little game has already been discovered.
 
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Well, that's because she's not a real Native American, obviously.

I'll show myself out... :inandout:
She may be like 1/64ths. ??
 
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She may be like 1/64ths. ??

It has been shown she is a descendant of one of the white individuals involved in the trail of tears. :lol:
 
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It has been shown she is a descendant of one of the white individuals involved in the trail of tears. :lol:

Blanket suppliers?
 
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