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Here is the patriarchy, handily summed up in one Joe Biden image (hard-left hating on Joe)
Fast Company ^ | 6/12 | JOE BERKOWITZ

Posted on 06/12/2019 11:07:58 AM PDT by dead


The look on Biden’s face. The forceful, accusatory finger. Her reaction. It all comes together in a photo that captures how certain men see the world.

On Tuesday afternoon, a CUNY professor sent out a series of tweets recounting Joe Biden’s flagrantly horny interactions with women in the audience for his speech. As individual cringey lines began their echo chamber orbit through retweets and screenshots, one crucial piece of context was missing. The speech was from 1973.

The American people already know where Joe Biden is coming from with regards to women. We know how he treated Anita Hill. We know about the handsiness. And of course, we know about the recent almost-apology. (Well, the one for the handsiness, at least; Biden has pointedly never apologized to Anita Hill.) What the American people do not know yet is whether Biden has actually internalized any of the blowback he’s earned over the years for his treatment of women.

So far, it’s not looking good.

Those tweets from that CUNY professor were widely circulated (irresponsibly, I might add) because they were believable lines from a guy who keeps attempting to make a clumsy joke out of the idea that he must treat women like people. Making matters worse is a tweet that emerged late on Tuesday and in some respects could be more damaging than if those 1973 comments actually had been from June 2019.

“Told Biden we need someone stronger on reproductive justice, and after his reversal on the Hyde Amendment, we asked him to protect assault survivors,” reads the tweet by a Wisconsin-based activist who goes by K.C. “He said ‘nobody has spoken about it, done more, or changed more than I have’. I told him we deserve better.”

K.C.’s tweet references Biden’s recent flip-flop on his support for the Hyde amendment, which would bar federal funds for abortion services in many cases. The former vice president’s reversal came only after he faced intense backlash from progressives. He may have landed on the pro-choice side his supporters would want him on, but the wavering along the way—he had just reaffirmed his Hyde support only two days prior—seems more significant than the outcome. Biden’s decision on this issue smacks of twitchy political calculus, rather than a sense of moral obligation or empathy, and activists like K.C. are right to be suspicious of Biden’s commitment to reproductive health.

Biden’s response to her, as depicted in the photo above, articulates everything about where he stands on this and every other issue central to women. Let’s start with the face. It’s a hostage’s smile, cranked to 11. There’s a hint of playfulness in his eyes, a desperate need for it to be a light interaction he controls rather than a confrontation in which he’s the subject. Those eyes mask a deep need to reiterate, in all seriousness, that Biden knows what he’s doing and that what he’s doing is right, and if only she knew the degree to which he was right, she would get off his back about it and maybe thank him.

Then there’s the finger. He’s wagging it right in her face! A demonstration of dominance from the king of gesticulation. Nothing about his body language conveys any openness or curiosity. What could this non-powerful woman possibly tell him, after all, that he doesn’t know? He spent eight years working in a little place called the White House—maybe you’ve heard of it? Biden’s energy here is the patriarchy itself as the one-sheet of a bad buddy cop movie; the crusty old vet standing back to back with his partner—women—crooking a thumb their way like “You mean I gotta work with this guy?”

The silver lining in this photo, though, is K.C.’s expression. She stares back, wide-eyed and undaunted, like she relishes the opportunity to puncture his self-image in the flesh. Seeing this photo through the lens of her tweet, on her terms, makes Biden look ridiculous in his own house, the way Katie Porter’s rebuke of Bill Maher did over the weekend. No modern emblem of the patriarchy should come without a corresponding portrait of a woman brazenly holding his gaze, eyebrows raised in mockery, unwilling to take his shit anymore.

The image has already become fodder for memes, and is destined to live on in infamy when we look back on the early race for 2020. As a followup tweet from K.C. makes clear, truly there is nothing funny about the moment this photo captures.

A clarifying point: this was absolutely and undeniably an intimidation tactic. He leaned forward, raised his voice, tried to grab my arm with his free hand. For a hot sec I thought he was going to hit me. Don’t make excuses for his actions in my comments anymore pls & thank


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Biden won't be the nominee. He's a train wreck.
1 posted on 06/12/2019 11:07:58 AM PDT by dead
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To: dead

No Dem will the WH in 2020. President Trump waltzes back in.


2 posted on 06/12/2019 11:12:09 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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3 posted on 06/12/2019 11:12:16 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (This space for rent...)
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To: dead

The Idiot Biden can’t help it.
He’s brain-damaged.


4 posted on 06/12/2019 11:14:34 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: dead

Ah. Photo-psycho-psuedo-anaylisis.

He shoukdnstart with why the photo isnt in color.


5 posted on 06/12/2019 11:15:47 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: dead

Hey cutie, pull my finger!


6 posted on 06/12/2019 11:18:50 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Trump is President and CEO of America, Inc.)
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To: dead

I think old Joe is saving hillary’s place in line.


7 posted on 06/12/2019 11:19:50 AM PDT by Rapunzel (Fallujah be damned ...S. Helvenston RIP)
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To: dead

Boo hoo, lefty bully. I’m no fan of Biden but lefties who have no problem with destroying people’s lives get no sympathy from me if someone raises their voice at them once.


8 posted on 06/12/2019 11:20:09 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Good way to draw back a bloody stump.


9 posted on 06/12/2019 11:32:07 AM PDT by Salamander (Death makes angels of us all, and give us wings where we once had shoulders, smooth as ravens' claws)
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To: Salamander

caption”

“Now you listen to me, b-tch”


10 posted on 06/12/2019 11:40:40 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: dead

There is no need to apologise to Anita Hill. She is black and worked in the Plantation Big house


11 posted on 06/12/2019 11:46:42 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12)There were Democrat espionage operations on Republican candidates)
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To: dead

The real story in this article is how the left doesn’t want women to be equal. Men point their fingers and get in each other’s faces all the time, it’s a negotiating tactic. Liberal women say they want to be equal but you can’t actually treat them equally or they get upset.


12 posted on 06/12/2019 12:01:46 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The internet has driven the world mad.)
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To: Rapunzel

“I think old Joe is saving hillary’s place in line.”

Hillary is a female Biden without the overt sex stuff. Biden is a placeholder though.

My current odds:

Michelle Obama: 70%

Hillary: 30%


13 posted on 06/12/2019 12:07:52 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The internet has driven the world mad.)
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To: dead

He sucks, but not like Kamala.


14 posted on 06/12/2019 12:12:10 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: dead

15 posted on 06/12/2019 12:21:52 PM PDT by dangus
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To: Salamander

Ah, excellent phrase!

I recall being a teenager on my third (or fourth, or fifth!) job and having a boss take that posture with me over some trifling matter that is lost to history.

I told him exactly that: “Stick your finger in my face one more time and you’ll draw back a bloody stump!”

I lost my job (no big loss since it was K-mart), but didn’t lose my pride.


16 posted on 06/12/2019 12:26:35 PM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Michelle cannot run unless “she” wants to present “her” original birth certificate several states. Michael Robinson: male, fraud. Missouri, like several other states, will no longer accept anything but an original birth certificate thanks to Zero’s fraud certificate of live birth.


17 posted on 06/12/2019 12:28:39 PM PDT by Missouri gal
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To: SaxxonWoods

Agree- they dont need to campaign, dems will vote for anything with a d next to a name.

They can screw around with these 3rd rate loosers in the interum, then stick the first rate looser in at the last minute. That disallows the 3rd rate looser time to say and do stupid stuff on the campaign trail.


18 posted on 06/12/2019 12:37:26 PM PDT by DanielRedfoot (Liberalism is a mental disorder, and is revealed through abject stupidity)
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Creepy Joe Biden: Image Gallery (List View) | Know Your Meme

19 posted on 06/12/2019 12:37:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
That's adorable.

20 posted on 06/12/2019 12:53:02 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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