I loathe Ivanka. But hear this: NO CHILD asks to be incested by her daddy. Just stop that.

[Hekate]

Some of the comments here make me want to vomit.

There’s a lifelong host of psychological effects from having been abused this way.

I remember reading many times that a high percentage of prostitutes had been sexually abused as children — and from the first time I read that I wondered: what about those of us who don’t?

I remember reading that some girls end up as “daddy’s little princess” with all kinds of gifts and special privileges, and I wondered: what about those of us who never did?

It goes on and on like that. Studies that get published highlight the girls/women who stand out in some way — what about those who pretended as hard as possible that no such thing happened, and kept the secret for 20 years?

Ivanka Trump’s father has left a trail of utterly grotesque very public photos and interviews about his daughter as a child, as a teen, as a young adult. He fondles her, poses her… There was a lifestyle interview and magazine photos of the two of them on her bed, with her on the phone, clothed but very suggestive for someone who looked about 12 years old.

One of the most telling stories I’ve read in the past year is that (1) Ivanka’s childhood bedroom has never been changed a bit, and (2) she has never set foot in it since leaving home. Also there was a separate story last year by a woman who was sent by her lifestyle magazine to interview new-mother Melania, accepted a “tour” of the penthouse by Donald, and ended up in Ivanka’s bedroom being slammed against the wall by the big man himself. Rather reminiscent of how he raped E. Jean Carroll in a department store dressing room, except the reporter escaped with a groping. Oh yeah, that great unforgettable story with Stormy Daniels, where he told a porn actress that she “reminded him of his daughter.”

He pressured Ivanka into cosmetic surgery at an early age. Having a nose job is common for high schoolers in some places, but if you look at her brothers and her old photos you can see how her chin, lips, and cheekbones were resculpted — early. Her aunt the judge recalled at one point how Donald wanted her to have a boob job in her teens, and how the aunt objected that it was much too early for that. She had the boob job — at what age I don’t know, but she was the talk of the Golden Globes.

So, Ivanka, as we can all see, became “Daddy’s Little Princess” practically from birth, Daddy literally forcing her hapless small brothers to compete for his unattainable attention. Special gifts, special treatment, lots of money — all the largesse of a very rich man. And all for the low, low price of being his doll, his thing, his object, always dependent, never free. Always transactional. Always subject to his whims and rages. — I wouldn’t want that life for anything in the universe.

As an adult, Ivanka is responsible for her own behavior in both the legal and ethical sense. She participated fully in Trump, Inc. and Trump White House. She absolutely needs to face the Law along with the rest of them.

But the abused child lives in her, twisted by her monstrous father. Just as you would not make jokes about prison rape as a knock on homosexuality, please refrain from making jokes about the incest inflicted on this woman when she was a child.