The Wisdom Of The Pence Family

Our idiot betters were chuckling – briefly, at least – at Mike Pence and his wife’s rules for his conduct in public around female associates, staff and the like. In that particular context-mangled teapot-tempest, Mike Pence was supposedly a “Neanderthal” “Taliban” “sexist” for never meeting with women alone.

Of course, if you’re in politics of any party (but especially the GOP, especially given our media’s, er, cozy and complementary relationship with the Democrat oppo research force, and triple-especially if you’re connected with Trump, it’s just good common sense.

I was going to leave it there – but it turns out, in this grievance-mongering era, that it – or having cameras rolling at all times – is not a bad tactic if you’re a man of any kind having to deal with women on any non-marital level.

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April 11, 2017

Men and Women

Mitch Berg

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8 responses to “The Wisdom Of The Pence Family”

bosshoss429

April 11, 2017

Love the driver’s advice to his fellow Uber drivers: “Get a fucking dash cam, dude”!
bikebubba

April 11, 2017

Another recent example is the recently resigned governor of Alabama, who was caught diddling a chief staffer. I think he might have benefited from the Pence rule, to put it mildly. I really think that liberal objection to the Pence rule stems mostly from the fact that the left likes to chase philandering conservatives from office, while they feel no such moral obligation to do so on their side until it becomes a really bad criminal issue. It’s strategic, really.
Emery

April 11, 2017

This isn’t just a ruse to avoid having to deal with Kellyanne?
Mammuthus Primigenius

April 11, 2017

/. is a crazy place. The commenters and editors are dominated by technically educated, mostly young people (as far as I can tell). They are wildly liberal, trust-the-experts types on topics ranging from global warming theory to gender fluidity.
Unless the topic is the job market and the workplace culture for technically educated young people. When the topic is something that they have first hand knowledge of, they tend to take the conservative, or at least the libertarian, point of view.
Case in point: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/04/11/1346212/google-schools-us-government-about-gender-pay-gap

The linked article seems to be a response to another article on this topic published yesterday or the day before taking to POV that Google was wrong and the labor department was right. That article got heavy pushback.

The principle is, I believe, that the less you know about a problem, the more likely you are to believe the problem has a simple solution that is not implemented because the people who are closest to the problem are either stupid or are morally defective (cf. the gun control debate).
DMA

April 11, 2017

Amy Koch should have practiced that with Brodkorb.
bosshoss429

April 11, 2017

Of course, then there is the Kristen Gillebtand incident. Shortly after she got to D.C., she claimed that one of her congressional colleagues told her not to lose too much weight, because he liked his women to be a little fat. She didn’t out the offender at the time, but odds are pretty good that he was one of her fellow DemonRATs. If it was a Republican, the left wing cabal would have encouraged her to shout it from the heavens, have a press conference and leak it to every fish wrapper on the east coast.
Mammuthus Primigenius

April 11, 2017

Shortly after she got to D.C., she claimed that one of her congressional colleagues told her not to lose too much weight, because he liked his women to be a little fat.
Hearsay, of course. There is no evidence that this happened at all. Peoples’ memories are amazingly inaccurate. But this incident — again their is no evidence that it occurred — is used to indict all of the male sex.
This is “public policy for authoritarians 101.”
Bill C

April 12, 2017

I’ve seriously considered getting a dashcam for my Ubering. However, there is a movement afoot to try and get Uber to implement the ability in their passenger app for female passengers to request a female driver. There is no corresponding movement to implement the ability of male passengers to be able to request a male driver. There also is no corresponding movement for female drivers to be able to turn down male passengers.

A lot of what I’ve read about Uber is that as time goes on, they implement more rules and policies to make it easier and cheaper for the passenger, at the expense of the driver community. They’re the 800lb gorilla in the room, so they have the ability to do so.