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Culture War Roundup for the week of July 29, 2024

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The dick sucking imagery seems picked purely for misogynistic reasons and also because it suggests a more transactional trading of sexual favours for appointments than actually appears to have happened (it was a years-long relationship).

You're leaving out the pretty important detail that he was twice her age at the time, 30 years her senior.

Yeah and I'm not saying it's a great look. But it was a long long time ago and I would look more askance at her critics who are going on about dick sucking. The candidates in any election have done a lot of shitting and masturbating as well most probably, but it's better left unmentioned.

The candidates in any election have done a lot of shitting and masturbating as well most probably, but it's better left unmentioned.

I think that the shitting and masturbating should be mentioned and brought up if the context around it is meaningful. I agree that "This politician sucked a dick" isn't really interesting at all by itself, but "This politician got a leg up in their career by sucking a dick" is meaningfully different.

I'm not going to say the crass blowjob imagery is how I'd go about it if I didn't prefer her to win over the alternative, but I object to claims that it appeared to be much more than transactional when someone younger than I am now is sleeping with someone older than my father and getting political appointments out of it. That's wild and I'm not sexist for finding it distasteful.