Posted on 04/14/2016 5:09:06 AM PDT by simpson96
*full article title: "'Hire a white man as the face of your companies': Skinnygirl founder Bethenny Frankel, 45, shocks crowd at New York business event designed to empower women"
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Bethenny Frankel appeared as the keynote speaker at a women's entrepreneurial summit in New York and that women have sex with men to secure investments for their firms.
But the Skinny Girl Vodka founder didn't stop there. In a speech at Rent The Runway's and UBS's Project Entrepreneur, she then went onto advise the hundreds of women gathered, to hire men as the face of their companies.
Frankel's remarks came during a New York Q&A session at the weekend, when she was asked about the challenges of raising funding for women of color.
The remarks irritated one entrepreneur called Mary Pryor who proceeded to post about her experience at the event on Twitter.
Writing in the Huffington Post Ms. Pryor says she was shocked by what Frankel was advocating.
'I was stunned when Frankel implied that women should have sex with men in exchange for capital. I was offended when she expressed some kind of kinship with black women because she's 'loud,' Ms Pryor wrote.
'And I was taken aback when she advised those of us in the room to get business advice to hire a white man as the face of our companies.'
There's no recording of the event, but a number of people have commented on the ensuing storm on Twitter.(snip)
Frankel sold the Skinnygirl cocktail company she founded to Fortune Brands' Beam Global in 2010 for an estimated $100 million, according to Forbes.
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Just a different type of “casting couch”.
They should also learn to make sandwiches.
LOL! I'm sure I would have been stuned, too, but then I'd have cracked up.
That woman is a total airhead. Why anyone takes anything she has to say seriously is beyond me.
Because she is rich, or at least she appears to be.
By her own admission, sounds like she screwed her way to money and is advising other women to do the same.
OMG ... that vibrating photo first thing in the morning ... uggghhh.
Some people will do anything for what they perceive as a chance at wealth. I recall a great writer’s observing, “The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil.”
I think we’ve found Trump’s running mate!
The story isn’t very well written and I wonder if some points of inflection were left out. With regard to hiring a white man as the face of your company, I gather that she was answering a question from a black woman. The proper response would be some variant of, “Remember that’s it’s not about you. It’s about your customer. Figure out what your customer wants and cater to that.”
And iron shirts. LOL!!!
I remember news stories and opinion pieces from the 1980s (I think) about ‘Eviil” corporations that hired a minority face of their companies.
Now they all hire perverts.
What is wrong with what Frankel said? Millions of women are basically whores for rich men they don’t love to gain a lavish lifestyle. The only difference is a ring. If you would spread your legs for a mansion or a Lexus, why not a company of your own that you could sell one day for millions. Frankel clearly f-ed her way to the top while she was hot. Now she’s old and crusty. Men don’t have to be so stupid as to fall for it.
Please tell me that guy’s sign isn’t photoshopped
The “b****” may have been added, I don’t remember that. But the rest of the sign was definitely there, at a protest of Augusta National’s lack of women in their membership during the Masters.
My absolute favorite internet pic of all time.
A member with a dry sense of humor solved the problem by putting a washer and dryer in the middle of the exercise room.
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