Fox News personality and former MTV host Kennedy offered a perplexing usage of the slang term “slut shame” while defending high-paid CEOs on Tuesday’s edition of the daytime panel show “Outnumbered.”
Kennedy introduced news of a rule in the Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill that will soon require all publicly traded companies to disclose the pay ratios between highly-compensated executives and regular workers.
“Critics say the regulation will just force companies to compile complex data to determine the median salary for all their employees which could cost them millions,” Kennedy said.
Labor groups, however, have backed the regulation as a way to pressure businesses to lower exorbitant CEO pay.
“They are essentially trying to slut shame companies into paying their highest workers less money,” Kennedy concluded.
Co-host Andrea Tantaros chimed in: “And slut shaming companies is not the job of the U.S. government.”
The phrase “slut shaming” usually refers to criticizing a woman for dressing or behaving in an overtly sexual way and is sometimes used to blame victims of sexual assault. The panel did not elaborate on how this compared to the Dodd-Frank rule requiring transparency from companies on their CEO-to-worker pay ratio.
Yes, because being transparent about wages amongst your staff is always a terrible thing. Could it be that they don’t want the peasants upset that the CEO is making 10000% more than they do?
Also Kennedy shame on you for equating these two.
They lost all cred at “Kennedy said…”
Sounds legit.
I’m sure she has absolutely no problem with government regulations that require unions to disclose just about everything that has a dollar sign attached to it, including the compensation of all employees. Can you imagine if corporations had to file the equivalent of an LM2 form with the government? Why are members dues any different than shareholders’ dividends in this regard. Who has a greater right to know how their money is being spent? Seems like some people are bigger sluts and must be shamed more than others. Typical right wing mindset.
Hey, sluts are supposed to like what they do, whereas CEOs get paid a lot of money for what they do… which would make them… what? And I’d be surprised if any CEO is ashamed of the exhorbitant salary they make, they’re too arrogant by far to succumb to such a base emotion.
It is the goverment’s job to protect shareholders from crooks and executives, I believe that’s called the SEC?
In many states it’s also established that all public employee salaries are fair game for public disclosure. I think 2008/2009 put the lie to companies only using “private” money, so it’s none of the public’s business.