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As sexual harassment scandals continue to surface seemingly by the minute, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says she has never been harassed, and for good reason: She packs heat.
As the allegations against Democratic U.S. Sen. Al Franken broke on Thursday, an MSNBC reporter asked Palin, Have you ever experienced sexual harassment in the workplace as a ambitious woman in public life?
Palin replied: You know, I think a whole lot people know that Im probably packing so, I dont think theres a whole lot of people who would necessarily mess with me.
She added that she unequivocally condemns sexual harassment.
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article185509878.html
JI7
(89,289 posts)Ilsa
(61,720 posts)Even adolescents, because puberty is such a dull, unemotional time in their lives.
Ilsa
(61,720 posts)who said something inappropriate? Or would she just shoot them? Would she expect her sons to be shot for making a pass at a girl who was offended?
She doesn't own a logical thought.
tazkcmo
(7,306 posts)All acting like she's smart enough to know when she has been harassed.
Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)JHB
(37,166 posts)Bucky
(54,094 posts)Wow, that was pretty sexist. I'm embarrassed, but too lazy to take it back
Glamrock
(11,803 posts)Her good looks can't overcome the ugly shit that comes out her mouth.
LakeArenal
(28,889 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,151 posts)erpowers
(9,350 posts)This is a woman whose national political career was largely built on the fact that men on the right wanted to bang her. I highly doubt she never walked into a room and had a man say something to her that was sexually suggestive. I doubt you live and work in a field that is dominated by men, some of whom have little respect for women outside of the bedroom, and not be sexually harassed. We are finding out that Congress has been forced to pay out millions of dollars in settlements over sexual harassment lawsuits. So, you think those same men decided not to sexually harass Sarah Palin, a women known to the general public more for her sex appeal than her brain power, just because she may have been packing heat? It is likely those men thought it was a challenge to sexually harass a women who carried a gun.
TexasTowelie
(112,714 posts)during the swimsuit competition of the Miss Alaska pageant. I guess that her flute served dual purpose in the talent competition as a musical instrument and as a rifle barrel?
tanyev
(42,678 posts)https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2010/10/sarah-palin-201010
Oh, and I guess she forgot about her traumatic experience in a step-aerobic class.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2011/09/rogue_author.html
Denzil_DC
(7,290 posts)"Ms. Palin, you'd be safe in Portsmouth on pay night."
Perhaps better not.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)Her voice can make one's ears bleed.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)gordianot
(15,259 posts)It would be interesting to know where she carries her firearms. I suspect she is as ignorant with firearms as all other major life activities.
TexasTowelie
(112,714 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)those who think they are the upper 1% of the "responsible" gun owners. But Palin is on drugs . . . . . . and she's stupid too.
Blue Owl
(50,596 posts)n/t
JDC
(10,152 posts)Takket
(21,715 posts)moondust
(20,028 posts)She could probably walk through a Walmart in most any city and few shoppers would even notice, much less recognize her unless she had a big entourage for some reason.
Denzil_DC
(7,290 posts)If she's packing heat, everyone around her, including herself, needs to be issued with body armor.
Skittles
(153,314 posts)D_Master81
(1,823 posts)I saw a clip of her being interviewed on this when she said this and then goes on to say, while nearly laughing at her own statement, "i dont mean to joke about this..." Then why Mrs Palin would you make an obvious joke? Sometimes I wonder if she's capable of being serious. Can you imagine the sh*tshow this country would be if she was VP instead of Pence?
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)SHRED
(28,136 posts)Go figure.
Initech
(100,150 posts)maxrandb
(15,402 posts)This irrelevant piece of amphibian shit weighing in on this is like the 7th seal being broken. The world is ending. I'm pretty sure it can't take much more of this horseshit.
I'm just going to take my 5th of Jamison's and crawl off to a fucking hole somewhere I can watch the show.
TexasTowelie
(112,714 posts)appears to be the solution to many issues in these troubling times.
jmowreader
(50,601 posts)According to the Wiki page, " s)exual harassment is bullying or coercion of a sexual nature, or the unwelcome or inappropriate promise of rewards in exchange for sexual favors." It further goes on to say that sexual harassment can include unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature."
In short, if she doesn't feel like she's being sexually harassed, she's not being sexually harassed...and for all I know, she may actually like the attention she draws.
DFW
(54,516 posts)But the fact that she's disgusting is probably also a factor..........
VOX
(22,976 posts)That's where the NRA has taken us, by rating and selecting. Slush-brains like Palin just love the gun manufacturers and their subsidiaries, who rake in something like $15 billion/year by pushing firearms. The full extent to which NRA lobbyists squeeze profit out of this death-porn industry must be staggering.
IronLionZion
(45,667 posts)because people in both parties, both genders, the media, and elsewhere said very demeaning sexual things about her during the 2008 campaign.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)A bullet America dodged would know all about firearms . . .
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)I know she knows all about taking the heat metaphorically.
Seriously, she should go back to watching Mother Russia from her front porch. Meanwhile, the rest of us long for the days when Mother Russia was off on the horizon instead of controlling the White House.