The unique harm we cause when we dissect a powerful woman's love life

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-unique-harm-we-cause-when-we-dissect-a-powerful-womans-love-life/2019/01/29/9ae19b78-2325-11e9-81fd-b7b05d5bed90_story.html?utm_term=.17117f66cd61&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

Washington Post

By Monica Hesse

Columnist



"SNIP....

Does it help your career, to date someone powerful? I’d assume so. Does it also help to play golf with someone powerful, or smoke cigars with someone powerful, or belong to Skull and Bones? I’d assume that, too. But for decades we’ve accepted those relationships — many of which benefited only men — as standard procedure for how executives and politicians get ahead. In August, ProPublica published a story about a trifecta of Mar-a-Lago members exerting influence over the Department of Veterans Affairs. None of them had military or government experience, but they did have long-standing acquaintanceships with the president.

......SNIP"