Last night, a couple friends, Mama Hausen, and Nigel and I all got together to watch The Apprentice finale. It was a night of debating, wine, and one friend accusing me of being a "liberal, feminist nazi!" Nevertheless, the night was fun, but the outcome of the show weighed on my mind all night and now this morning. Why on earth didn't Jennifer M. win, I keep thinking, she's well educated, has almost the same experience as Kelly, she's tough....
Actually, I came to my answer last night: Trump is sexist. The world is sexist. Jennifer Massey didn't win because she is a woman. Face it. Last night's show should have been called The Kelly Perdue 3-Hour Finale, because for three hours all we heard was unremitting praise for Kelly, interspersed with a speckle of brave souls who spoke up for Jennifer's abilities.
It was disgusting, and I let everyone in my house know that I thought it was sickening what was going on. But no one agreed with me, not even my mother.
Mama Hausen: "Amy, Kelly was more organized, and he's business savvy."
Nigel: "You're looking at with biased eyes. You've been calling Trump sexist through-out the whole show."
Friend 1 (male): "If you think Jen M. deserved to win, then you're out of it."
This went on all night.
You know what bothered me the most? The live boardroom meeting. Jennifer went into why she was well qualified to the job. She recited her lovely education, that she'd went into a very competitive legal market in San Francisco.... And Trump acted inpressed, even chiding Kelly for not having "better" credentials. So Trump asks Kelly why should he pick him over Jen. And the look on Kelly's face said: "Because I am Young, White, and Male." As if that would have been enough. I guess it was.
The YWM degree has way more precedence over an Ivy League education attained by any woman or minority. The YWM degree cannot be...well, trumped.
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