With Hope Hicks' exit, we can't let Trump's female allies off the hook

I’ve spent this week thinking a lot about redemption. Lower-level staffers in the Trump White House are eager to get out but can’t seem to find new jobs (don’t have much sympathy, to be honest), but as Hope Hicks exits it’s clear that she’ll be doing her redemption tour in no time. In the same way I imagine Ivanka will manage to rise from the ashes of her father’s disgusting tenure, Hicks will be fine.

She’ll leverage her celebrity and good looks into some sort of narrative that paints her as an unwitting victim – just as Ivanka did recently when she suggested it was “inappropriate” for a reporter to ask her what she thought about her father being accused of sexual harassment and assault.

We can’t let the women of this administration take advantage of how white femininity is put on a pedestal. Don’t forget, for example, that it was Hicks crafting responses to her then boyfriend Rob Porter’s domestic violence allegations. The stink of bigotry is just as strong on them as anyone else.

Source: theguardian