It does not matter how sensitive he is, even a liberal man can trip over his politically correct words and come around the bend looking cavemanesque.
At a Wednesday breakfast sponsored by Politico, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner attempted to answer a question about the “predatory atmosphere” toward women at the International Monetary Fund (h/t Ace of Spades).
Geithner’s answer was anything but an answer.
“To be perfectly fair,” he said, “I think that is an incredibly difficult question to ask a man. You could ask a woman that question, I think it is hard to find any, uh, no offense to the, to men, um, I think it is very hard for men to understand what it is like to be a woman working anywhere, so you should ask a woman at the IMF in that case.”
Mike Allen, the Politico reporter asking the question, responded, “So it sounds like no, you weren’t [aware of a predatory atmosphere].”
“No, no I wouldn’t say that but even if I was aware or said I was aware, I wouldn’t have any feel or appreciation,” Geithner responded.
According to Geithner, it seems, no man can determine if an environment is or might be hostile to a woman.
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