'Hire a white man as the face of your companies': Skinnygirl founder Bethenny Frankel, 45, shocks*

Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | 4/14/2016 | Staff

[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.

[Ancesthntr]

“A member with a dry sense of humor solved the problem by putting a washer and dryer in the middle of the exercise room.”

That there is funny!

[outofsalt]

There was a movie a few years back where an actor says something like, "You can lose a lot of money chasing women but you don't lose too many women chasing money." This shows there is a reciprocal corollary to that statement.

There must be an algorithm for describing the relationship between money and sex. S=$³?

[Roman_War_Criminal]

“Frankel implied that women should have sex with men in exchange for capital”

As if that’s new in any corporation?

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Having recently left the dating scene about 5 years ago to “settle down”, I will tell you that without a doubt there is a huge relationship between the two. First two questions I was asked by “dates” during my crazy days were:

Job & Salary; Own/Rent (And NO, these were not asked as a way to “get to know me better”)

I have 3 female friends who have this imaginary magic salary # in their heads for their future hubby to be. Every year it goes up by about $10k-$15k. They date...they date...and strike out miserably. I’m beginning to wonder if that number will climb down once they reach 40? I’m not sure.

I’ve also got a buddy one state over who makes well over $150k a year and is pushing 50. You wouldn’t believe how many 20-somethings he has aggressively approaching him, and he’s balding.

Somebody for sure has to have that algorithm figured out. LOL!

[JimRed]

Please tell me that guy’s sign isn’t photoshopped

Must'a been. I don't recall a news article about a male chauvinist oink being beaten to death at a feminazi rally.

[Mr. Jeeves]

I have 3 female friends who have this imaginary magic salary # in their heads for their future hubby to be. Every year it goes up by about $10k-$15k.

Because men have an imaginary magic body shape in their heads for their future wife-to-be - and every year after age 23 women get 10-15% further away from it. :)

[xp38]

Been done....first there was the hot/crazy matrix and then the cute/money matrix.

[SunkenCiv]

"Offering sex to men to get them to invest in your company? That won't work. At least, not all the time."

[Laser_Ray]

Been awhile since a post on Freerepublic made me laugh this hard! Please tell me someone took a picture?

[i_robot73]

>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.

Moral relativism isn’t just on the Left. You pegged it precisely: the RING makes it all O.K. to some/most.

While the (just as willing) woman on the corner...

[Roman_War_Criminal]

LOL!