Shannon Coulter, (click here) a tech and media marketing specialist who is boycotting the Ivanka Trump Collection fashion line.
21 October 2016
By Joanna Walters
She had kept it to herself. (click here) “Buried it” and moved on. But when an audio tapeemerged 7 October of presidential candidate Donald Trump boasting in 2005 about habitually getting away with being a sexual predator, Shannon Coulter couldn’t ignore her reaction.
“It was a feeling of recoiling. It was emotional, visceral. Then I had a pounding headache for a few days. I was filled with nausea,” said the technology and media marketing specialist based in the Bay Area.
Like many women who have watched sexual harassment allegations against Trump unfold, Coulter was reminded of her own experience. “I was in an office belonging to a firm I was working for in Silicon Valley and my boss’s boss came breezing through. Suddenly he came up behind me and pressed himself right up against me and said ‘Why is it you always look so good?’ He had a colleague with him and it was so humiliating,” Coulter recalled....
It has always been my point of view that women should not be victimized because of men's behavior.
In holding Ivanka Trump responsible for her father's behavior is counter to the desire to have Donald Trump realize his abuse of women because of his wealth. Fathers and daughters have special relationships and that should be respected.
Ivanka Trump did not victimize women. She has found a career that provides quality apparel to women. There is no connection between Ivanka's business and Donald Trump's abuse of women. I don't see that hurting Ivanka is going to change Donald Trump. He will only take a firmer stance against extremists that hate men.
My point of view is not that of others and if women such as Shannon Coulter find a stronger footing in fighting victimization of women by making an example of a daughter of a wealthy man it may be valid.
Ivanka has been a strong proponent to her father's run for President of the USA. Should she be made aware of a deeper understanding of women and how they fall victim to sexual abuse at the very least; then there is a reason for a boycott. Just get it right when putting forth a boycott. Don't allow the wrong focus to manifest. This isn't punishment of Ivanka; it is however; a means to her foster awareness.
Ivanka should be working for empowerment of women, including a clothing line that provides good fashion and good value to aspiring women. In order for Ivanka to be held in higher regard, she will ultimately have to speak to her father's behavior.
