Republished from The Prairie Badger
In her new book, titled Off the Sidelines, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) said that some of her male colleagues on Capitol Hill made sexist remarks about her appearance:
“Good thing you’re working out because you wouldn’t want to get porky,” Gillibrand says one colleague told her in the congressional gym, according to an excerpt of her book Off The Sidelines published by People.
After she lost weight following a pregnancy, Gillibrand writes that one male colleague squeezed her waist and implored: “Don’t lose too much weight now, I like my girls chubby.”
And she says one southern congressman told her, “You know, Kirsten, you’re even pretty when you’re fat.”
Although Gillibrand didn’t specifically name anybody, she either stated or implied several clues as to who made the offensive remarks about her appearance:
- All three of the sexist remarks were made by members of either the U.S. House or the U.S. Senate.
- All three of the sexist remarks were made by men
- One of the three sexist remarks was made by a member of one of the two houses of Congress from a Southern state
- Two of the three sexist remarks was made by members of one of the two houses of Congress, but no clue was given as to which region of the country they are from
I’m going to ask this question: Was Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) behind the sexist remarks about Kirsten Gillibrand’s appearance?
One of the three sexist remarks about Gillibrand’s appearance, specifically, the one that Gillibrand herself identified as being from a southern congressman, is not from Johnson, since Johnson is from Wisconsin, which is not considered a southern state. However, while this is pure speculation on my part, I suspect that one of the other two sexist remarks were from Wisconsin’s Dumb Senator Ron Johnson.
Of all of the members of either house of Congress, Johnson is one of the most sexist members of either house of Congress. Not only has he repeatedly voted against legislation that would improve the lives of women, he also helped cover-up the sexual assault of one of his own aides by Republican Wisconsin State Rep. Bill Kramer for three years. Sadly, it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if Dumb Ron Johnson was responsible for making sexist remarks about a fellow member of the U.S. Senate.