It would be great if criticism of Trump didn’t slip into puritanical pearl clutching. First, there were scandalized shrieks over Trump’s entirely innocuous comment about breasts. Now, there is an even more idiotic trend of describing Trump’s son as “a perv” for saying that his sister is beautiful. I say that my sister is beautiful all the time because she is and I not only already discussed breasts with Klara but also told her where she came from. So what? What’s the big deal? Is there no legitimate reasons to criticize Trump that we have to fake ridiculous puritanism that we don’t apply to any other situation?
4 responses to “Stop the Clutching ”
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Her brother’s comment seems innocuous.
From your link, Trump’s remark comes off as creepy, but whatever, not a big deal. He’s just not an articulate person. He didn’t even know the word ‘vocabulary’ (hence the famous utterance: ‘I have the best words!’).
“Yeah, she’s really something, and what a beauty, that one. If I weren’t happily married and, ya know, her father . . . ”
I do like that in his mind the primary barrier to him having sex with his daughter is that he is happily married. The father bit only comes later.
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Trump might have chosen Mike Pence as his running mate.
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Maybe people go for pearl clutching because the obvious policy and temperament problems aren’t enough to dissuade some people.
The brother’s comment is dumb and nepotistic, not creepy.
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