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Because Ivanka Trump billed herself as a champion of LGBTQ rights, shes come under fire for remaining silent on her fathers announcement Wednesday that transgender people would be banned from the military.

In June, the White House assistant to President Donald Trump tweeted out her proud support for her LBGTQ friends and fellow Americans who have made immense contributions to our society and economy. She also wished everyone a joyful #Pride 2017, proclaiming the month of June a time to celebrate and honor the #LGBTQ community.

Given that proclamation it was natural for people to wonder if Ivanka would have anything to say about her fathers transgender ban. He announced his ban through a series of tweets first thing Wednesday morning. But thechairman of the joint chiefs of staff said Thursdaythere would beno modifications to the transgender policy andthat the military will continue to treat all of our personnel with respect.

In any event, Ivanka stayed silent following her fathers announcement. But people shouldnt have been surprised to not hear from her, especially if they were aware of where she had been the night before.

She was at a $1 million fundraiser,offering a glowing introduction to Vice President Mike Pence, who is known for his anti-LGBTQ rights positions and opinions.

In fact,The Daily Beast reports that Pencehad been pushing hard for this kind of policy shift in the military, as had senior officialssuch as chief strategist Steve Bannon, who expected it to play well with the socially conservative elements of Trumps political base.

But independent of the Pence fundraiser in Washington D.C, people have come to expect Ivanka to keep her mouth shut on the controversial things her father says or does even if they undermine causes she claims she cares about: womens rights, climate change research, education and LGBTQ rights.

In fact, many have given up on the narrative that she and her husband Jared Kushner, an adviser to the president, represent a moderating influence in a White House thats enamored with hard-line conservative positions on health care, immigration, tax reform and LGBTQ issues.

Moreover, they either suspect that Ivanka has no real influence over the presidents decisions or worse. They see her as an opportunist who doesnt really care about anything beyond being a loyal daughter, keeping her father in power and promoting her familys businesses and personal brand.

Once upon a time, Ivanka could expect to be the subject of glowing Vogue cover stories and New York Times profiles about how the beautiful daughter of the bombastic real estate mogul is making her way in the worlds of business, fashion and motherhood.

Now those publications and others regularly raise concerns about nepotism and conflicts of interest that have come with Ivanka and Jareds appointments to key White House positions. Both Ivanka and Jared also face media and congressional scrutiny over Jareds contacts with Russian officials.

Amid increasing reports about a dysfunctional, chaotic and possibly corrupt White House, with themselves at the center, Ivanka and Jared appear to be in a circling-the-wagons mode and doubling down on their loyalty to the president and his agenda.

They reportedly urged the president to push out Sean Spicer as the White House communications chief in favor of the more aggressive Anthony Scaramucci, whose brief tenure is already generating plenty of controversy.

Increasingly critiqued by members of the media and the liberal elite, in which she once moved with ease, Ivanka appears to be pulling closer to her fathers hard-line conservative allies. Maybe Ivanka was essentially conservative all along.

In addition to Ivanka introducing Pence at his Tuesday night fundraiser, CNN reports that shes been spending time with Matt Drudge, the tycoon founder of the conservative website The Drudge Report. CNN says that Drudge, one of the presidents most ardent supporters, is at the White House all the time and has also been doling out advice to Kushner.

It appears that Ivanka knew the transgender ban was coming down. According to asenior White House official, quoted by the Daily Beast, Ivanka and Jared have been opposed to all the anti-LGBT initiatives of the Trump administration. But when it came time for Trump to make this shift in military policy, they decided their political capital should be spent elsewhere.

So, Ivanka spent her political capital Tuesday offering her support for Pence. Earlier in the day, she expended some of that capital teaming up for a project with another staunch Trump ally, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

Ivanka and Betsy were at the Smithsonians National Museum of American History Tuesday to read a book to a group of 6- to 10-year-olds about the importance of girls and young women going into STEM-related careers.

Trump critics will no doubt see an irony in their presentation. DeVos may also hold positions on education that would seem to contradict Ivankas proclaimed interest in this field.DeVos, who has no experience with public school education, is leading Trumps effort to slash billions of dollars that fund public school programs. DeVos wants to boost private school vouchers.

But maybe Ivanka, like DeVos an heiress and product of private school education, is fine with all this.

Or maybe given her track record of appeasement or complicity in whatever advances her fathers agenda, she has probably decided to go along with whatever DeVos wants to do with public education just like she has tacitly agreed to go along with her fathers ban on transgender people in the military.

So, her silence on the ban Wednesday definitely wasnt at all surprising.

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Its hard to work with women without having sex with them, says Rick Ross.

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Noted gentleman Rick Ross appeared on a New York radio show Monday morning to promote his new VH1 reality series Signed. In the series, he and two other hip-hop moguls will audition and develop aspiring artists, who will get the chance to sign with one of the three big dogs record labels.

Christina Cauterucci is a Slate staff writer.

When Im looking for an artist, Im really just looking for something Ive never seen, first and foremost, Ross told the Breakfast Club radio hosts on Monday. If its something thats unique, I feel thats something thats in demand. After that, I want to see that hunger.

But what if that unique, in-demand, hungry young artist is a woman? As Breakfast Club host Angela Yee pointed out, Rosss Maybach Music Group label has no female artists on its current roster and has only ever signed one, singer-songwriter Teedra Moses. Ross shared his well-thought-out reasoning with Yee. You know, I never did it because I always thought I would end up fucking the female rapper and fucking the business up, he said.

Thats awful, Yee replied.

Im so focused on my business. I got to be honest with you, Ross went on. You know, she looking good. Im spending so much money on her photo shoots. I got to fuck her couple times.

What a conscientious businessman! If you cannot interact with women without having sex with them and losing your focus on moneymaking, the responsible thing to do, Ross says, is avoid contact with women in the first place.

It is exhausting to imagine the life of a man who sees every female colleague and industry contemporary as a predestined sex partner. How do you have any time for artist development, business strategy, and radio-show appearances if youre constantly having sex, scheming about how to have sex, or being distracted by people who, because they are women, remind you of sex? How do you sit through dinner with a buddy and his sister? How do you handle meetings with female marketing executives and record distribution heads while maintaining a constant erection? How much does your life suck because you cant have any female friends?

Those are questions many posed to Vice President Mike Pence earlier this year, when it came out that the guy refuses to break bread alone with any women who arent his wife. The famously chaste n Catholic Pence initially comes off as the anti-Ross: The rappers promiscuity is as much a hallmark of his brand as the vice presidents condemnation of almost every type of sexual contact is a hallmark of his. One thinks you should almost never have sex, the other thinks yachtloads of sex is the way life was meant to be lived.

But these two men are a lot alike. Ross has women call him Daddy; Pence calls his wife Mother. Both are gatekeepers at the top of their respective industries. And both use their warped, semi-Biblical views of women as inevitable temptresses to keep non-men out of their inner circles. To Pence, all womenno matter how random or disinterestedrepresent potential detriment to his marriage. To Ross, they are poison to his business. Women already face significant structural barriers to advancement in politics and the music industry. Men like Ross and Pence, who explicitly limit their contact with women, codify sexist notions of women as sex objects who divert attention from the important work at hand. (See also: dress codes that force underage girls into bulkier clothing because their bodies are burdensome distractions for innocent, hardworking boys.)

Ross continued his Monday interview by asking Yee several times to reveal her legs to him, implying that he would have to have sex with her if she signed with his label, telling her he wants to see her twerk at an upcoming pool party, and posing for a photo while grabbing her hair and pretending to lick her face. If his goal was to keep distracting women out of the music industryor broadcast journalism, for that matterRoss can count this interview as a major win.

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Vice President Mike Pence defended Trumps Twitter humiliation of his own Attorney General Jeff Sessions to Fox News host Tucker Carlson on his show Wednesday.

Well look, I think the presidents been very candid, he said, that hes disappointed with the attorney generals decision to recuse himself and to not know about his intention to do so before he was confirmed as the attorney general of the United States.

But I have to tell you Tucker, he said, youve been around Washington for a long time, I know the Washington way is to talk behind peoples backs. But thats not President Donald Trumps approach.

One of the great things about this president is you always know where you stand, he concluded.

The American people like about this president is he speaks candidly, he speaks openly, Pence continued. Hes expressed his disappointment but that doesnt mean that we dont recognize the good work that the Justice Department has been doing under the attorney generals leadership.

Taking on MS13 gangs, removing them from the streets, confronting sanctuary cities, rolling back that policy across the country. he concluded.

I think its the public expression of it that rattles people, Carlson challenged. The idea that you would attack someone who works for you on Twitter and I wonder if you worry personally if the president was displeased with you that he might tweet about you that way. Does that ever occur to you?

Well, I think one of the presidents virtues is his candor, Pence repeated.

Right, Carlson agreed.

Carlson has pleaded with the president from his show to stop what he called the humiliation and suffering of Trumps friend who supported his candidacy when others didnt.

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Dont send Mike Pence daughters he asked for sons.

Before Mike Pence became Vice President and vintage cartoon meme, he was the governor of Indiana, a U.S. representative, and host of his own political talk show. This was back in the late 90s when most kids were interested in Beanie Babies, Pokmon, and boy bands with ramen hair.

Of course, the 90s also gave birth to one of the most beloved Disney animated films of all time, Mulan, and unfortunately for Pence, his children were very interested in seeing the film over Fathers Day 98.

Upon leaving the theater, Pence was compelled to pen an op-ed on his shows website about the movie and what it might mean for the military.

Just spent a memorable Fathers Day, like so many other all American Hoosier dads, with my kids at the new Disney film entitled, Mulan. For those who have not yet been victimized by the McDonalds induced hysteria over this film, Mulan is a fictional account of a delicate girl of the same name who surreptitiously takes her fathers place in the Chinese army in one of their ancient wars against the Huns.

Despite her delicate features and voice, Disney expects us to believe that Mulans ingenuity and courage were enough to carry her to military success on an equal basis with her cloddish cohorts. Obviously, this is Walt Disneys attempt to add childhood expectation to the cultural debate over the role of women in the military.

I suspect that some mischievous liberal at Disney assumes that Mulans story will cause a quiet change in the next generations attitude about women in combat and they just might be right. (Just think about how often we think of Bambi every time the subject of deer hunting comes into the mainstream media debate.)

The only problem with this liberal hope is the reality which intrudes on the Disney ideal from the mornings headlines. From the original Tailhook scandal involving scores of high ranking navy fighter pilots who molested subordinate women to the latest travesty at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, the hard truth of our experiment with gender integration is that is has been an almost complete disaster for the military and for many of the individual women involved.

When Indiana Congressman Steve Buyer was appointed to investigate the Aberdeen mess, he shocked the public with the revelation that young, nubile, 18 year old men and women were actually being HOUSED together during basic training. Whatever bone head came up with this idea should be run out of this mans Army before sundown. Housing, in close quarters, young men and women (in some cases married to non-military personnel) at the height of their physical and sexual potential is the height of stupidity.

It is instructive that even in the Disney film, young Ms. Mulan falls in love with her superior officer! Me thinks the politically correct Disney types completely missed the irony of this part of the story. They likely added it because it added realism with which the viewer could identify with the characters. You see, now stay with me on this, many young men find many young women to be attractive sexually. Many young women find many young men to be attractive sexually.

Put them together, in close quarters, for long periods of time, and things will get interesting. Just like they eventually did for young Mulan. Moral of story: women in military, bad idea.

Essentially, Pence uses Mulan as an example as to why women should not serve in the military because she was housed with other men and fell in love with Captain Sheng. Some critics have pointed out that using Mulan as the crux of his argument is weak, as she nearly single-handedly saved all of China, becoming the deadliest Disney Princess (possibly character?) of all time.

Perhaps to Pences dismay, women were legally allowed to serve in the U.S. military since 2001, three years after Mulans release.

Comically, Pences feelings of victimization by the McDonalds induced hysteria over this film may soon resurface, not only with the live-action Mulan slated for 2019, but the (hopeful) return of the McDonalds promotional dipping sauce created in honor of the movie made culturally relevant again by the hit show, Rick and Morty.

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VP Mike Pence Hated 'Mulan' Because Women in the Army is a 'Bad Idea' - NextShark