CNN’s David Axelrod probably didn’t get the answer he was expecting when he asked former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice if she had ever been the victim of sexual harassment during her tenure in the male-dominated sphere of politics.
Rice described having “inappropriate things” said to her and even getting asked on dates by senior-level colleagues, but added, “I’ve never faced a quid pro quo; an explicit quid pro quo. I’ve never had anyone do anything that I would consider assault.”
Rice said she doesn’t know a woman alive who hasn’t, at some point in their lives, been told something “inappropriate at best and aggressive at worst.”
And though she feels like the #MeToo movement is important for exposing powerful men who take sexual advantage of others, she also warned that carelessness will bring more harm than good and hurt women in the long run:
“I do think we have to be a little bit careful. Let's not turn women into snowflakes. Let's not infantilize women. And what I really don’t want to happen is that I don’t want it to get to a place that men start to think, 'Well, maybe it's just better not to have women around.' I've heard a little bit of that. And it, it worries me.”
It appears that Rice is “woke” enough to see that post-sex regret isn’t the same as being assaulted. She should brace for impact, though, because feminists don’t like being told they could’ve respected their bodies and just said no.
