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Victoria Brownworth Profile picture
@VABVOX
Jul 5, 2018 • 9 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
#BillShine was REMOVED FROM OFFICE May 1, 2017 for allowing "extreme abuse"of women at @FoxNews to go ignored, while women were forced to suffer or quit.
Shine epitomizes the worst of men in the #MeToo era, yet of THOUSANDS of qualified people, Trump chose a monster Fox fired.
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“It's extraordinary that the president could hire someone like this,” a senior @FoxNews executive said of #BillShine. “This is someone who is highly knowledgeable of women being cycled through for horrible and degrading behavior. buzzfeed.com/stevenperlberg…
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While #BillShine was co-president at @FoxNews, women were sexually harassed/assaulted and he did nothing.

How TERRIBLE do you have to be to get fired from @FoxNews with its culture of misogyny? Yet even at Fox, Shine was viewed as a monster.

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#BillShine was named in several lawsuits for covering up sexual harassament/assault of female victims at @FoxNews.

@PressSec always claims the women who accused Trump are liars on the left.
Her new boss was complicit in assaults on #GOP women at Fox.

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Trump supporter @LarryEKlayman warned Trump not to bring on #BillShine because of his egregious history of covering up and fomenting a culture of harassment:"I don’t want so see the ghost of Roger Ailes running the White House communications operation." thebea.st/2MQJTBL
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Trump hiring #BillShine marks a devolution even for this president.
Shine is ANATHEMA in the industry.
Untouchable. No one would hire him after his May 1, 2017 firing.
But Trump chose him over THOUSANDS of viable applicants BECAUSE of his history.

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The statement made by Trump hiring #BillShine is egregious.
Women in Trump's inner circle--few though they are--should be horrified & speaking out, especially @PressSec and @KellyannePolls.

Shine now controls @WhiteHouse messaging.
Be appalled.
#MeToo

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These women accused Trump of sexual assault.
Ninni Laaksonen
Jessica Drake
Karena Virginia
Cathy Heller
Summer Zervos
Kristin Anderson
Jessica Leeds
Rachel Crooks
Mindy McGillivray
Natasha Stoynoff
Jennifer Murphy
Cassandra Searles
Temple Taggart McDowell
Jill Harth
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It is essential people recognize that women will be hurt by #BillShine's hire. It exemplifies how Trump discounts women, embraces rape culture & promotes acceptance of sexual harassment/assault.

In the #MeToo era, Trump just spit on American women of EVERY political stripe.
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Victoria Brownworth Profile picture
Oct 9, 2018
I don't think men really understand how different it is to be a woman out in the world and how quickly things can turn dangerous.
When I was living in New Orleans, I was walking home from work one night. It was fall--dark early & foggy.
A man came out of the fog toward me.
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He said hi, I said hi.
As he started to pass me, he asked me if I had the time.
I looked at my watch, looked up, he had a gun pointed at me.
He hit me so fast I wasn't able to steel myself.
I fell to the ground.
He said, "I could rape you right now, but I don't have time."
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He wanted my money.
I had the grocery money for the entire house (I lived with 3 other people) in my purse.
He took it and disappeared into the fog.
The whole thing was maybe ten minutes, start to finish.
I was shaking so hard I could hardly get up.
My head was bleeding.
3/
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Victoria Brownworth Profile picture
Oct 4, 2018
The majority of the working class in America is women and POC.
And white men as a group haven't voted majority Democrat since 1964--they stopped after LBJ signed the the #VRA.
Flip the narrative and start listening to the ACTUAL working class--the rest of us.
Stop centering white men for everything.
Stop claiming only white men can save us from the damage white men did to us.
Women are the working class--my investigation here:

damemagazine.com/2018/04/12/wom…
.@matthewstoller is very worried about white men, but it's really women of all races who are facing the worst effects of economic and social stresses.
My investigation here:
damemagazine.com/2018/05/10/why…
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Oct 2, 2018
The relentlessness of passing over superb women with strong credentials & election histories in favor of whatever man is a headline at a moment is exhausting.

Two months ago it was Avenatti. Now it's O'Rourke.

Bypassing the majority of Americans--women--is a national disgrace.
O'Rourke is fine. He is not, Harris, Gillibrand or Klobuchar.

▪Gillibrand is Congress' leader on women's rights & sexual assault victims.
▪Harris set NN2018 on fire with her speeches reclaiming identity politics.
▪ Klobuchar highlighted #Kavanaugh's unfitness for SCOTUS.
Americans MUST stop looking past women to find some man, any man to supplant them.

It took THIRTY YEARS of incredibly hard work for @HillaryClinton to get to run for POTUS. The rules for women are so different. No one sees a woman give a single speech and says "president!"
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Oct 1, 2018
I lived in NOLA right after college.
I drank most every day, as did everyone I knew.
We were all in the domestic Peace Corps, all in our early 20s, all hardworking activists with stressful work.
We drank too much at Mardi Gras, New Year's.
It's absurd to claim #Kavanaugh didn't.
Those of us who've had alcoholics in our lives--like Klobuchar--tend to be careful about alcohol because we've been damaged by the drunks in our lives. I'm a control freak, so never liked being drunk, but lots of my friends did. What IS true, is most 20somethings drink to excess.
This new tack from the #GOP to dismiss #Kavanaugh's alcoholic drinking--& I am not saying he was/is an alcoholic, but he certainly drank like one--is just wrong. It undermines their own credibility and ignores reality: statistically the vast majority of teens/20s get drunk OFTEN.
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Sep 29, 2018
Let's talk about sex, #Kavanaugh & Venn diagram overlap of male entitlement.

I've written a lot about sex in various contexts. In the late 80s/early 90s I also gave safe sex workshops back when folks my age were dying 24/7 from #AIDS. My 1st book was on juvenile prostitution.
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Most of us know consensual and non-consensual sex differ. The entirety of #Kavanaugh's defense and his defenders' outrage is predicated on the presumption that no teenaged boy knows what consent is.

THEY. KNOW.

Some, like their adult counterparts, don't care.

This is key.
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Since #MeToo we've seen egregious serial rapists like #BillCosby and #HarveyWeinstein exposed & attempts made to prosecute them.

But there are "lesser" sexual assaults we've given a lighter hand to: Matt Lauer, Charlie Rose, Mark Halperin, Louis CK--too many to list.
3/
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Sep 27, 2018
I gotta tell you, folks, I have been so sick for the past 2wks, I have really been scared.

Sept 22 House GOP passed their new cuts to Social Security Medicaid and Medicare out of committee. $1.2T in cuts.

That's the safety net.

I've always hoped I could fall there. No more.
I had to call my bestie today to have her come up and stay with me while The Wife is teaching.

Even with the oxygen, hard to breathe.

I had to cancel interviews for tomorrow, a radio appearance for Friday.

Chronic illness like #cancer is incapacitating at times.
We need to do better for sick and #disabled Americans.

It is so hard to work and be sick.

Never getting better sick.
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