With friends like this…
Michael Reagan weighed in Bill O’Reilly’s departure from Fox News this week with a defense that may not have been well thought out.
Taking to social media, Reagan tried to downplay a complaint leveled this week by a black woman who worked at Fox News who claimed that O’Reilly used to leer at her and called her “hot chocolate.”
“Hot [Chocolate] used to be a compliment on your looks, today it is called sexual harassment,” Reagan tweeted, according to People Magazine.
And if that wasn’t enough to get his critics going, Reagan followed that with a tweet that turned the tables on sexual harassment.
“If women are going to wear low-cut dresses that show cleavage don’t be harassed when we men look. Or [should] we sue for sexual arousal?” he wrote.
Needless to say, both tweets were deleted post-haste, but the damage was done.
Amid the backlash, Reagan ignored the common wisdom that when in a hole, stop digging. After deleting the earlier tweets, he tried to better explain his point of view:
If someone calls u brown sugar because u are in their eyes gorgeous and blk.2 them it's a compliment 2 U it's harrassment,then tell them.
— Michael Reagan (@ReaganWorld) April 22, 2017
2 if you say u r offended by the term and they persist that is HARRASSMENT
— Michael Reagan (@ReaganWorld) April 22, 2017
Not that he didn’t see an occasional show of support online, as seen here:
This is what 8 years of extreme PC culture has gotten us! I would be rich if I sued every time a man gave me a compliment or showed interest
— Susie Dee (@SusieGinias1) April 21, 2017
But overall, Reagan was given a crash course on sexual harassment in the 21st century:
@SusieGinias1 @ReaganWorld @oreillyfactor It is unprofessional and abusive to make sexually loaded comments about fellow coworkers, especially subordinates. What’s so complicated?
— Simon Bel (@semenbelo) April 21, 2017
@ReaganWorld @oreillyfactor So objectifying a woman is a compliment??? Smh. Time to crawl out from under that rock man!
— Amy Murphy (@murphy2001) April 21, 2017
@ReaganWorld you said women deserve it if they show cleavage – & if you’re so dense you think brown sugar is a compliment, I pity your wife
— Ian Fortey (@IanFortey) April 22, 2017
@ReaganWorld Do u really want to fight this battle? Better ways to spend your time? Someone recommended I follow u bc you are a thoughtful conservative.
— (((Sean Captain))) (@seancaptain) April 22, 2017
@ReaganWorld Thanks 4 the mansplaination but wouldn’t the easier/less-expensive solution B to treat female co-workers with the same respect as male ones?
— MercurialMiss (@MercurialMiss) April 22, 2017
@ReaganWorld Or just don’t be creepy. Why not just stop being creepy. I prefer to work with folks who are not creepy. Like people who call me by my name.
— Jenny Fleishhacker (@jennyfleishhack) April 22, 2017
@ReaganWorld This ‘chocolate’ and ‘brown’ analogy is not doing you any favours. Stop digging!https://t.co/FeAQkKgkE3 #Oreilly
— Upright Citizen (@NEPpundit) April 22, 2017
@ReaganWorld You’re coming off as … very odd.
Please stop. Trust me. You’ll thank me.— ?erry ??unleavy (@JerryDunleavy) April 22, 2017
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