{"id":40484,"date":"2019-10-24T01:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=40484"},"modified":"2019-10-23T08:03:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T12:03:01","slug":"qotd-binders-full-of-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/10\/24\/qotd-binders-full-of-women\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: &#8220;Binders full of women&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Which brings me to another Mitt Romney debate comment that received similar mockery and self-flattering giggling. During the second presidential debate in 2012, Romney was asked about pay equity. In the course of his answer, he said: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>I had the chance to pull together a cabinet, and all the applicants seemed to be men &#8230; I went to a number of women&#8217;s groups and said, &#8220;Can you help us find folks?&#8221; and they brought us whole binders full of women.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;ll happily grant that the phrase &#8220;binders full of women&#8221; is an awkward one. It sounds like the menus they bring out on Jeffrey Epstein&#8217;s plane when Bill Clinton and Harvey Weinstein settle in for a weekend getaway. <\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s the thing: What Romney did was <em>exactly<\/em> what feminist groups insist elected politicians <em>should do<\/em>. He saw that there were &#8220;too many&#8221; men in the applicant pool, so he reached out to some feminist groups and asked for help. Some feminist groups reached out to him \u2014 and he listened to them, too. And then he hired more women.<\/p>\n<p>The monster! <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cc.com\/video-clips\/z4nfbs\/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-democalypse-2012---the-second-debate---now-including-the-president---binders-of-women\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Stewart<\/a> mocking him for it. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonanFarrow\/status\/258383244158980096\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Ronan Farrow<\/a>. And here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/live-feed\/bill-maher-mocks-mitt-romneys-381411\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Maher<\/a>, a man who must be sweating like a hooker in church over Hollywood&#8217;s post-Weinstein zero-tolerance for piggishness toward women.<\/p>\n<p>Jonah Goldberg, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/452671\/harvey-weinstein-donald-trump-hypocrisy-mitt-romney-binders-full-women\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Binders Full of Asininity&#8221;, <em>National Review<\/em><\/a>, 2017-10-13.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which brings me to another Mitt Romney debate comment that received similar mockery and self-flattering giggling. During the second presidential debate in 2012, Romney was asked about pay equity. In the course of his answer, he said: I had the chance to pull together a cabinet, and all the applicants seemed to be men &#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,53,41,13],"tags":[188,987,480,806,43],"class_list":["post-40484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-electionwatch","tag-feminism","tag-hypocrisy","tag-mittromney","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-awY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40484"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51950,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40484\/revisions\/51950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}