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The way Obama writes about women here ... uh. Wow. https://twitter.com/daniel_dsj2110/status/1328870823051063296
The amazing thing is that he thinks what’s embarrassing here is what motivated him to study. What’s embarrassing is that he’s a grown ass man who has been the most powerful person in the world, and he is STILL writing about young women like a fucking pick up artist.
“Ethereal bisexual”? I can’t.
This is y’all’s hero?
This is y’all’s hero?
I’m just over and over going over in my mind the similarities this bears to 17th century notions about how women — because they are sex objects — were a distraction for the learned man from his true intellectual purposes.
Like has nothing changed, Jesus
Like has nothing changed, Jesus
For the “but he’s just saying how he thought back then” crowd: first of all, he just gave that little dude voice, uncritically, except to say how it impacted *him* and second of all: https://twitter.com/professorcrip/status/1328901928403742724
Remember when he opposed the ethereal bisexual’s marriage rights? I do, because thanks to people like him, my ex-wife and I couldn’t get married in the United States and if we had stayed together, she couldn’t have followed me here when I got my postdoc.
For those wondering whether he addresses this language either before using it or after, the answer is no. It’s all a vehicle to tell us about how he developed as an intellectual.
So as an editor, here’s the thing: you are welcome to write about how you thought when you were a misogynist little twit. But you are supposed to be clear about what was wrong with your thinking. He never does that. He ends the paragraph with no (non-pickup) lessons learned.
Anyway here’s the one time he mentioned patriarchy
