Bloomberg writer David Weigel defends fired Jeb Bush CTO Ethan Czahor, saying the young tech wizzard was guilty of nothing more than being a young conservative. In a column shockingly guilty of selective omission of the facts, Weigel centers ALL of his commentary about Czahor on race and affirmative action.

Clearly Weigel and I weren’t reading the same news stories yesterday. Then again, maybe we were. My jaw dropped to the floor reading Czahor’s comments about women being ‘sluts’. True, this behavior is not new among frat boys — but that’s just the point.

Did the Jeb Bush campaign seriously think that letting Ethan Czahor get away with slut-shaming — coming out of a Silicon Valley tech industry that’s notoriously mysogynistic — would stand? In a Hillary Clinton presidential campaign? This cluelessness around sexism remains at the heart of the Republican party and among most libertarians. Hmmm … Sandra Flukes … Rush Limbaugh … slut … does that ring any bells Jeb?

The above post says it all. Calling women sluts was just boys will be boys behavior for the young college grad Ethan Czahor. When The Huffington Post uncovered Czahor’s Tweets praising Martin Luther King, Jr. for not sagging his pants and saying “black parents need to get their sh@# together”, the Jeb Bush campaign threw in the towel.

What do we conclude? Jeb Bush doesn’t need the women’s vote running against Hillary Clinton? But he is trying for the African American vote? Or women are accustomed to being called ‘sluts’ but African Americans take no insults these days?

You tell me, Jeb, while I admit to being sensitive on the subject of frat boys and ‘sluts’. Two former presidents George H. W. Bush (who I voted for) and George W. Bush belonged to Yale’s Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity chapter at Yale — a chapter than remains under suspension at prestigious university.

From my article, written about the 2011 suspension:

During pledge week Yale’s DKE candidates walked through the school yard to the Yale Women’s Center chanting:

‘No means yes, yes means anal. Fucking sluts. My name is Jack, I’m a necrophiliac, I fuck dead women and fill them with my semen.’

During pledging season of the 2008 fall semester, the Zeta Psi chapter at Yale photographed their pledges posing in front of the Yale Women’s Center, holding a sign that read “WE LOVE YALE SLUTS.” Perhaps a competition was building to see which group of frat boys could out gross the other.

Then there was my 2011 story USC Frat Boy Launches ‘Gullet Report’ For Expert Cocksman Getting Getting Quality Pie, written by a member of USC’s Kappa Sigma Fraternity.

I’m glad Ethan Czahor is gone, because I would have launched a personal crusade against Jeb Bush over his utter obtuseness on ‘sluts’. Actually, I would have Tweeted Barbara Bush. This tonedeaf, Conservative Republicans episode should remind women of what we’re dealing with in America.

If you want a more in-depth reminder, read Newsweek’s recent cover story What Silicon Valley Really Thinks of Women. I quote:

Early in her career, Roizen was working “on a company-defining deal”—involving, potentially, millions of dollars—with a major PC manufacturer. “The PC manufacturer’s senior vice president who had been instrumental in crafting the deal suggested he and I sign over dinner in San Francisco to celebrate,” Roizen has written. “When I arrived at the restaurant, I found it a bit awkward to be seated at a table for four yet to be in two seats right next to each other, but it was a French restaurant and that seemed to be the style, so down I sat. Wine was brought and toasts were made to our great future together. About halfway through the dinner, he told me he had also brought me a present, but it was under the table, and would I please give him my hand so he could give it to me. I gave him my hand, and he placed it in his unzipped pants.