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In reply to the discussion: Pence wont eat with a women who isnt his wife? [View all]InAbLuEsTaTe
(25,518 posts)14. Beyond batshit.
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I hope that I would happen to be seated at an adjacent table just to watch this show.
Marie Marie
Mar 2017
#46
But if the chaperone is also a woman, it could lead to a meringue a trois!
Buns_of_Fire
Mar 2017
#48
Probably is a derivative of Billy Graham's rule never to be in a room alone with a woman
grantcart
Mar 2017
#7
It's a technique that renders women back to being chattel- we need to travel w keepers again?
bettyellen
Mar 2017
#52
I am certainly no fan of Pence, and may be in the minority, but it makes sense to me.
AgadorSparticus
Mar 2017
#13
It's goofy as hell, and would probably preclude any woman from working for him
The Velveteen Ocelot
Mar 2017
#15
You can conduct business outside of dinner. But he could certainly have his assistant tag along.
AgadorSparticus
Mar 2017
#17
It works both ways. Some women wouldn't have dinner with men they are not married to.
AgadorSparticus
Mar 2017
#20
No, it's a restriction on the women who ought to be working with him
muriel_volestrangler
Mar 2017
#83
As a society, when we see someone have a drink, we don't automatically jump to the conclusion
AgadorSparticus
Mar 2017
#146
Bollocks. As a society, we live in the 21st century. We used to live in the second half of the 20th.
muriel_volestrangler
Apr 2017
#147
Nonsense. There is much assumption on your part. He can still hire a woman
AgadorSparticus
Apr 2017
#149
And it is our duty, as liberal people who see women as equal to men, to call out bad behaviour
muriel_volestrangler
Apr 2017
#150
Yes, he does have to. That's the point. He has to treat men and women equally.
muriel_volestrangler
Apr 2017
#154
There's two different questions, to my mind, if I think more about it.
Warren DeMontague
Mar 2017
#65
I think there are a few things going on, some of them generational, here.
Warren DeMontague
Mar 2017
#143
It makes sense only if you think men can't control themselves and women are harlots.
alarimer
Mar 2017
#86
Things are a little different for major political figures than they are for librarians.
EL34x4
Mar 2017
#123
Well, if eating is such a sexy activity maybe he shouldn't eat alone with a man, either.
betsuni
Mar 2017
#22
but he will "grab 'em by the pussy" when they aren't his wife. This is about PRETENSE that's all
luvMIdog
Mar 2017
#47
Does that mean that deep down, below the Bible-thumping veneer, he's just as much an
Vinca
Mar 2017
#70
He also won't be at a function or place that serves alchol, unless his wife is there
obamanut2012
Mar 2017
#88
Exactly, it is a way to blame women for the fact that he can't control himself. n/t
FSogol
Mar 2017
#111
Pence obviously thinks "Tom Jones" was a documentary where dinner becomes the
no_hypocrisy
Mar 2017
#109
Totally off the wall...but then remember Ashcroft - and the cloaking of
asiliveandbreathe
Mar 2017
#128
It's sexist. He sees women only as sex objects, not as equals. He assumes others feel the same.
NurseJackie
Mar 2017
#129
Wow, what a coincidence, women who aren't his wife won't eat with him either.
L. Coyote
Apr 2017
#152