Dude, go home
I find this perhaps disproportionately enraging. Then again perhaps not disproportionately at all.
https://twitter.com/lizcgoodwin/status/1138817493064138752
Why not just tell her to go home and that she’s a slut for being out in public? Why not tell her to wear a burqa? Why not ask her grandfather what the hell he’s thinking allowing his granddaughter – a GIRL, with an actual VAGINA, and possibly pubescent little BOOBIES – to be in a coffee shop with men and boys around? Why not tell her to her face that she’s a whore and has no business mingling with male people in this whorish manner?
Or why not just say to her: “Oh hi, you are a young female person, a person who is fuckable, that is all there is about you that is of interest to anyone. Female persons are for being fucked by real people, who are male. I am one such person, your brothers are more, your grandfather is another. Why are you here? Are you here so that we can fuck you? I am confused.”
Updating to add: the photo is an old one; it’s not a photo of yesterday’s creepery.
Is that a picture from this current situation or an older picture?
I’ve seen compilations of Biden’s creepy behavior and he’s done the “boys, protect your sisters” bit before. You’d think his handlers would have told him to stop.
Wow, talk about invading someone’s personal space – I find that photo uncomfortable just to look at. I assume Biden thought he was being folksy and funny with his “protect your sister” comment, and probably even thought that it was a compliment to the girl to indicate that she was sufficiently attractive to warrant the instruction to her brothers that they should protect her.
Didn’t politicians used to encourage young people (sometimes even girls!) by telling them that they could be the next President?
Sadly, that kind of comment is still considered funny even among supposedly enlightened people. I know several parents who identify as liberal, Democratic, feminist, etc. and yet routinely make “jokes” about (e.g.) how great it is that their daughters have (honorary) “uncles” like me and their other male friends who will one day help intimidate/deter any future teenage suitors. Like we’re going to be the Virginity Police or something.
I even recall one dinner years ago where somehow the conversation ended up (through no encouragement from me, I assure you) on the subject of one couple’s teenaged daughter’s dating life, and how she had been with her current boyfriend for over a year. This met with a chorus of “uh-ohs” and “that’s trouble” from ostensibly civilized adults. Because, you see, the implication they drew was not “how nice that your daughter is mature enough to have formed a stable relationship at an age where many of her peers live in constant romantic drama and turmoil,” but rather “hur-hur, they’re either having sex or will be soon.”
I understand that it’s probably hard for any parent to be comfortable with the idea of their own daughters being sexual, especially since girls do face greater risks than boys in terms of pregnancy, STIs, and sexual assault. And people who are uncomfortable sometimes make awkward jokes to deal with it. But the rest of us shouldn’t be joining in, much less initiating it like Biden here.
Bastard.
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The photo is from an older interaction.
Yes, sorry, I should have said that was just a generic photo of Biden doing his creepy thing. A Google images search turns up a stomach-turningly large number of them.
A big risk, of course, but parents can help reduce the risk somewhat by giving their daughters a lot of information about preventing pregnancy, and taking them to the doctor and/or pharmacy to give them the tools to do so. Sexual assault won’t be helped by that, but they could do a lot to help that by teaching their sons not to be assholes that force girls to do things they don’t want to do.
And, of course, that idea of “keeping the boys away” only provokes both boys and girls to do their best to rebel against the parents and figure out how to do what it is they aren’t supposed to, and also gives the message to boys that it isn’t up to them not to rape girls, it’s up to other people to keep it from happening.