One of the really scary things in this article is the barely concealed shot that Biden isn’t safe around 13-year-old girls, even if they say through their father that they were comfortable with a ‘grandfatherly’ kiss on the head.
Conflation is just as dangerous as the lack of a spectrum in supposed sexual innuendo let alone sexual harassment and the far worse sexual assault. And that’s not even getting into accusations automatically equalling guilt.
No, the really really scary thing is that MOST women in Canada, for at least 40 years if not more, have had enormous power to speak up when an unwanted touch or hug or sniff was out of line and have stood tall and proud and in the moment, when telling some guy that he was out of of line: at the frigging time too, and not five or eight or ten years later when its politically expedient to do so.
Although tell that to Ontario’s former Conservative Party Leader contender Patrick Brown, who faced demands for his resignation for unproven and spurious sexual misconduct, and not assault, allegations. And that dear readers, led to Doug Ford, a Trump-lite populist, to take over the reigns of Ontario and wreck havoc.
In other words, most feminist women in Canada were, and are not, simple victims perpetually cowed into a weakened sense of silence, supposedly holding on to their ‘pain and humiliation’ until some guy steps into a Prime Ministerial nomination race.
This myopia minimizes the real pain of those people who have suffered horrendous sexual harassment and abuse.
No, the really really really scary thing is that the kind of brouhaha over Biden’s supposedly systemic behaviour, which according to the author somehow condones misogyny, may very well result in the United States and the world having to endure another four more years of Trump.