Barbara, can we talk about your outrageous attention-seeking remark on Twitter?
Clearly it worked since the internet is on fire over your bright coloured suits and hiked skirts. Your infamous tweet may now be down, but thanks to the glory of the interwebs, it is going to live on forever whether you like it or not.
When I saw your tweet, it left me kinda wondering how much snatch you show off when you are hiking up your bright pink skirt during a business negotiation. Do you hitch it up and play peek-a-boo as you reach down to pick up a pen you deliberately dropped on the floor? Or do you just cross and uncross your legs a la Basic Instinct? As fellow businesswomen, my friends and I out here in the real world are wondering how you do it at a boardroom table.
We should figure this out, so since we are all here with our billy bats and martinis anyway, let’s break this down.
I get it. You are the grand fromage of the largest real estate company in New York. You probably have lots of money, rich friends, and you spend your weekends wherever the uber-entrepreneur set have their skin rubbed with $100 bills. During the week you are doing deals and living the dream, baiting men to buy what you are selling.
All good so far. It is your right to be rich and clever.
I am wondering, however, if you are actually in possession of any common sense at all when you advise women that we could be rich like you if we showed a little more leg.
I’m really hoping you made an honest mistake or meant to be funny when you put that tweet up. If not, I am not sure if you thought your comment all the way through considering what this says about you. Women like me are scratching our heads thinking “so all of my education, skills and talent were never necessary? All I had to do was to walk around like a brightly feathered bird with half my gear hanging out?”
Did you just wake up one morning and think “What would Donald Trump tweet?” Because that is the sort of tripe morons love. Or maybe you think all of us are mouth-breathing lemmings? Or was your time on Shark Tank so ego boosting that you thought you could say shit like that and the world would fall at your feet and breathe in your wisdom?
Now, I am going to go to the next logical impact of your manipulative sexist business acumen. If I was a dude, even a not-so-clever one, I might figure out that you think we are all pecker-driven morons. You have publicly declared that men can be swayed in business with some cleverly displayed inner thigh. I mean really, do you not feel the least bit cheapened by the tactic? If you don’t, the men now do, thanks to your revelation.
I have some hard truth for you. The men and women around you, the younger female entrepreneurs you should be mentoring in particular, are all somehow diminished by your terrible grandstanding words. I can only hope you don’t have any daughters.
Just so you know, your membership in the sisterhood is up for review.
