Boys only for Pence
Speaking of Mike Pence, and scum, and hatred of women – he has a personal Rule against being alone with women.
The Indianapolis Star reported in 2016:
During his 12 years in Congress, Pence had rules to avoid any infidelity temptations, or even rumors of impropriety. Those included requiring that any aide who had to work late to assist him be male, never dining alone with a woman other than his wife, and not attending an event where alcohol is served unless Karen was there.
So he excludes women from some aspects of working for him; he excludes them as women, because they are women. I believe there are laws against that kind of discrimination. It doesn’t suddenly become cute because he’s a “Christian” and full of christiany scruples.
It’s interesting that Aaron Blake wrote a whole article on the subject without noticing how discriminatory and handicapping to women Pence’s adorable little Rules are. No skin off his nose, so he apparently doesn’t even notice.
I HATE THIS.
SO DO I.
Perhaps the answer to Pence’s problem is for him to stay home. Let women work where they want, and if men can’t avoid the temptation to grab them, the men should be limited in where they can be.
Well, that’s what he says. Sounds to me like an excuse for hiding a secret gay relationship.
I’d pretty much forgotten about this, but I now remember this was a ‘thing’ in the small Midwestern town I worked in for a year and a half in the ’90s. Geeks were very thin on the ground, and our IT guy and I usually had a lot to say to/share with each other…but it was completely impossible for us to actually hang out together outside work hours. One time he and his son went tornado-chasing–he knew I’d have loved to go with them, and that because I don’t drive I wouldn’t have had any other way to do it, but he wasn’t ‘allowed’ to come to my house to pick me up. He told me once that a female relative of his who lived in some other part of the country had paid a flying visit, and he’d met her for lunch at her hotel–within minutes people all over town had rung his wife to tell her her husband was having lunch with ‘some woman’.
I can kind of understand what’s going on here–and it’s not actually about sex specifically. These men, and plenty of non-fundie men, have no sense of what friendship means. If one of these men meets a woman with whom he has a lot in common, and who he enjoys talking with and having a laugh, he has no idea how to process these feelings, and (this has happened to me more than once) immediately jumps to ‘this must be the true love of my life, I will abandon my family and marry her at once’. (It does make you realise how emotionally unsatisfying their family relationships–and male friendships–must be.) There’s no sense of proportion, or the possibility that you can have a pleasant conversation and share interests and proclivities with lots of different people.
It can be a thing in fiction, too, even now – that “I saw Daddy/Mr Big with a woman at bar / restaurant / whatever” plot twist that’s always supposed to mean DADDY CHEATIN. Sometimes the plot “twist” is that hahaha he’s not cheating at all, that was his sister.
Graham Douglas, #4; that’s quite a leap of the imagination. My first thought was a guilty conscience over an earlier affair, or rules laid down by Mrs. Pence over the same.
A virtual burqa. Invisible, but just as effective in controlling and marginalizing women. Yes, many conservative Christian women think this is a good idea – of course, many conservative Muslim women also think that burqas are a good idea.