We have to do something to divert some of our anger. It isn’t healthy to sit and stew on one topic. I grant you, we’re stewing over a lot of topics, but when we stumble upon something interesting, it would be rude not to share.

I challenge anyone, woman or man, to work for a company in which your father is CEO or “President,” and not have a lot of talk behind your back. If your father is an asshole, you may even hear some of it yourself. There are some people who can avoid any awkwardness in nepotism. Simply do a great job while also ingratiating oneself with the other staff members, don’t think you’re “special.”

Ivanka is not that type of person. Ivanka manages to define “nepotism” with every negative connotation one can imagine. She acts entitled, completely clueless, under-educated (especially for a “White House Adviser”) and seems to think she is … well, part of a royal family, which makes her a “Royal Princess.” And you’ll never guess what she’s called behind her back by White House staffers?

Wrong answer. She is called “Princess Royal.” Ivanka probably thinks it’s a compliment, I think reversing the words reinforces the “slam” part of it. It most certainly is not a compliment. Link:

In reference to Donald’s unorthodox move of allowing Ivanka to temporarily take his place at the 2017 G20 summit in Germany, one “former Trump adviser” told Vanity Fair, “This is not a royal family, and she’s not the princess royal.” Apparently, the term “princess royal” is how “some West Wing advisers” refer to her behind her back. But it may be a mockery she brought on herself. Trump family biographer Emily Jane Fox revealed in her book, Born Trump (via Vanity Fair), that the president’s golden child reportedly insisted on having “a princess moment” at her father’s inauguration. Careful what you wish for, huh?

Ya, what?

She wanted a “princess moment?” If she was 9 years old and just getting back from Disneyland, I can maybe see that as being normal when planning your dad’s inauguration. But 99% of us would have had good parents to give a nice smile and say that she’s a princess “only to mom and dad,” and when out with everyone else she gets to be just a “great kid,” or something.

But Ivanka was 35 and SHE was the mom! Are you kidding me? If someone approached any of the many 35-year-old women that we have as friends and put them in that situation and ask: “Do you want to have a princess moment?” The women I know would say something like, “I’d rather you just kill me now,” as a kind of light joke and then turn seriously and say, “I am an adult with 3 children, there will be no “princess moments.”

But that’s just me, or “them,” actually. I have no idea if the princess moment came about or what it looked like. But from what we have seen? It almost certainly did.

Maybe I didn’t divert anger so much as reinforce the entitlement. Damn.

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Peace, y’all

Jason

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