Ivanka Trump proves she's no deep thinker (just like her dad) with her latest book

It comes as no great shock that Ivanka Trump is completely out of touch with most working women. Though she is supposed to be marketing a brand that speaks to all women who work, it is most definitely geared toward a specific kind of woman who works—white, supremely wealthy, educated, business owner, etc. But this isn’t necessarily Ivanka’s fault. To some degree, it is understandable that a woman of her incredible wealth and privilege can’t help but be woefully out of touch with what life is like for most women who are not blessed with the resources that she has. Given that, it complete makes sense that her new book would be out of touch as well. 

Trump's new book shares a name and a mission with her company's marketing campaign: Women Who Work. Organized into sections with titles like "Dream Big" and "Make Your Mark," Women Who Work is a sea of blandities, an extension of that 2014 commercial seeded with ideas lifted ("curated," she calls it) from various well-known self-help authors. Reading it feels like eating scented cotton balls.

It’s doubtful that Ivanka has had to work, really work, for much in life. Sure, she’s run aspects of her daddy’s businesses. But it appears that most of what she’s done and been good at is taking other people’s thoughts and ideas, repackaged them as her own and made money off of them. And this book appears to be no exception—with one major flaw. She couldn’t even be bothered to get it right. She’s basically a plagiarist and a con artist. Hmm … wonder where she got that from? 

"I've curated my best thinking, as well as that of so many others, in the pages of this book," she writes (wordsmiths?), and what she means is that she rehashes her previous writings and borrows heavily from lifestyle gurus and corporate feminist authors like Sheryl Sandberg, while simultaneously claiming Women Who Work offers something radically new, "a hopeful, more authentic alternative to the way work has worked previously." Though there is an extensive bibliography, she's often vague about exactly how much she has taken. But almost any idea, upon investigation, has someone else's work behind it.

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