Category: News Tracking

‘Your Uteruses Will be Fine’: Hannity on the ‘Collective Freakout’ over Trump’s Win

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Fox News – December 9, 2016

In his opening monologue on Thursday’s edition of “Hannity,” Sean said that the left-wing reaction to Trump’s victory “is now reaching mind-numbing levels.” The host cited stories of Washington D.C. women cutting and dyeing their hair “because they want to feel empowered in order to oppose president-elect Trump.” Hannity also noted that a public relations firm founded by CNN “radical” pundit Van Jones is “working with Republican Electoral College electors who plan on voting against Donald Trump on Dec. 19.”

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Are Black Women Too Critical of Pantsuit Nation?

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Samara Lynn, Black Enterprise – December 9, 2016

The group dynamics have changed. What once was more of a political group has turned into mostly postings about random acts of kindness and deeds to offset racism, homophobia, and other ugliness group members witness on a daily basis.

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Meet the Real ‘Left Behind’ Voters: Black Women

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Kristin Seefeldt, Newsweek – December 9, 2016

Some 93 percent of black women voted for Hillary Clinton, but the women I spoke to also felt forgotten by the government and left behind by economic change. They have been abandoned by those hallmark institutions of the American dream that once promised a gateway into the middle-class—good jobs, home ownership, and post-secondary education—in spite of a public narrative that perhaps America has heaped “too much” help onto them. In fact, my research showed the opposite.

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Trump says Person of the Year Title is ‘Politically Correct’

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Chris Isidore, CNN Money – December 9, 2016

On Wednesday, President-elect Donald Trump said it was “a very, very great honor” to be named Time magazine’s Person of the Year. By Thursday night, he was riffing about how the title is politically correct. “They used to call it Man of the Year, but they can’t do that anymore,” he told a rally in Iowa. “They call it Person. They want to be politically correct. That’s OK.”

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Trump’s Labor Secretary Pick: “I like beautiful women eating burgers in bikinis”

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Emily Crockett, Vox – December 9, 2016

Puzder is the CEO of CKE Restaurants, which operates Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s. For the last decade or so, Carl’s Jr. has been known for running controversial TV ads featuring models eating hamburgers in various gross, oversexed ways.

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The Gender Wage Gap in the US Could Get Worse Under Donald Trump

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Jenny Kutner, Mic – December 9, 2016

On average, women in the American workforce are paid 83 cents for every dollar a man makes. Many people in the United States don’t think this should be the case. Rather, most people have said they support equal pay — includingPresident-elect Donald Trump and some of his compatriots in the Republican Party.

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Trump Is Still Not Very Popular, and His Problem With Women Could Return

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Noam Scheiber, Maggie Haberman, and Emmarie Huetteman, New York Times – December 8, 2016

Well before the emergence of a video of Mr. Trump bragging of sexual assault, his attitude toward women posed a political problem for him. With the president said to be reaching out to the fast-food executive Andrew F. Puzder to lead Labor, look for the questions to come back.

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This is What Happens When Donald Trump Attacks a Private Citizen on Twitter

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Jenna Johnson, Washington Post – December 8, 2016

About a year ago, 18-year-old college student Lauren Batchelder stood up at a political forum in New Hampshire and told Donald Trump that she didn’t think he was “a friend to women.” The next morning, Trump fired back on Twitter — calling Batchelder an “arrogant young woman” and accusing her of being a “plant” from a rival campaign. Her phone began ringing with callers leaving threatening messages that were often sexual in nature. Her Facebook and email inboxes filled with similar messages. As her addresses circulated on social media and her photo flashed on the news, she fled home to hide.

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Andrew Puzder, Trump’s pick for Secretary of Labor, Reportedly Abused his Wife

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Marie Solis, Mic – December 8, 2016

Following reports Donald Trump would be choosing CEO Andrew Puzder as his secretary of labor, details of the fast food giant’s troubling record with women popped up, pointing to Puzder’s role in popularizing sexist advertisements featuring bikini-clad women eating burgers.

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Women are Donating the Pantsuits they Wore on Election Day in Honor of Hillary Clinton

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Rachel Lubitz, Mic – December 8, 2016

The pantsuits people might have worn while voting are now shrouded in different emotions than they expected. Yes, there’s historic weight because this was what they wore while voting for a female president for the first time, but things didn’t pan out as they had hoped. Now, as a way to give back to the community, one woman has suggested that people donate the pantsuits they wore when they voted for Clinton. Meena Harris, a Pantsuit Nation member, wrote in Lena Dunham’s newsletter Lenny Letter about the idea.

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