…here is the latest on Michael Bloomberg’s treatment of women – as excerpted from Michael Cranish’s article in the Washington Post:
As Mike Bloomberg celebrated his 48th birthday in 1990, a top aide at the company he founded presented him with a booklet of profane, sexist quotes she attributed to him.
A good salesperson is like a man who tries to pick up women at a bar by saying, “Do you want to f—? He gets turned down a lot — but he gets f—– a lot, too!” Bloomberg was quoted in the booklet as saying. Bloomberg also allegedly said that his company’s financial information computers “will do everything, including give you [oral sex]. I guess that puts a lot of you girls out of business.”
At the time, some Bloomberg staffers said, they laughed off the comments in the 32-page booklet, “The Wit and Wisdom of Michael Bloomberg,” as a macho side of one of the nerdiest men on Wall Street.
But others viewed them more darkly, seeing them as blunt examples of what they considered to be a hostile environment, artifacts of a workplace employees said was saturated with degrading comments.
Several lawsuits have been filed over the years alleging that women were discriminated against at Bloomberg’s business-information company, including a case brought by a federal agency and one filed by a former employee, who blamed Bloomberg for creating a culture of sexual harassment and degradation.
Remember the fuss media put up (and still does) about Donald Trump’s comment, during what he thought was a private conversation, that because he was “a star” women let him “grab them by the pussy”?
Well, here is Michael Bloomberg, accused not of making locker-room comments to another guy in a private conversation, but a) saying the same, even worse things as a matter of course, and b) creating an office environment that reflected his attitude about women as sex objects.
Would it be fair to say that, if Michael Bloomberg buys the Democrat presidential nomination, comparing his behavior regarding women to Trump’s won’t be a major campaign thrust?
In the immortal words of my sainted grandmother, “Oy gevalt”…with a disdainful “Feh” thrown in.
You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful – I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything.’
Bush sniggers, saying ‘whatever you want’, then Trump goes ‘Grab them by the pussy, you can do anything.’
There’s more, but you get the gist, don’t you?
Not quite the same as you put it. But the media spent so much time saying, Trump says he grabs women by the pussy, that it is understandable.