Emma Green's article for The Atlantic yesterday has all the answers. Green graciously opined that, this is how he and his wife, together, have chosen to navigate their marriage. But the same article mentions a totally unrelated topic, that while Pence was governor of Indiana, he presided over a controversial religious-freedom bill.
This is all battlespace prep for 2020. The left believes Trump either won't run, or will be forced from office, so they have trained some of their fire on Pence.
Some of the less-balanced reactions to the revelation provide an interesting snapshot of current year gender relations.
Ashley Csanady of the National Post argues that Pence's attitude is rape culture at work.
Rape culture is a social construct of attitudes that condone rape. But rape is now whatever a female says is rape. Consensual sex obtained through persuasion? Rape! Consensual sex between a subordinate and her superior? Rape! Mike Pence's (socially-constructed) beliefs forbid ever being in these situations, and thus proscribe rape.
Speaking to a woman without permission is now sexual assault in a growing number of Western jurisdictions.
We are enjoying the first derivatives of feminism's calculus, in this case, the Nordic model. What can be considered, in purely economic terms, as a mutually beneficial transaction (prostitution), is now widely considered a crime that men commit against women. The male customer is punished but the female supplier is not.
I'm not going to say that all women are prostitutes, but there is always a transactional quality to interactions between men and women. If you don't believe me, look at the hashtag #NeverAskAWoman.
Never ask a woman to smile. This is considered "emotional labor," and it's never free.#NeverAskAWoman to SMILE! FUCKING NEVER.
— Paige 🌵 (@PaigeNButler) March 31, 2017
When women put a price-tag on simple kindness, you know that feminism is ultimately motivated by a desire to control and manage resources.
And that brings us to the part of the narrative where all the threads are sewn together, Vox's Joanna L. Grossman's opinion that Vice President Pence’s “never dine alone with a woman” rule isn’t honorable. It’s probably illegal.
Because discrimination. This is the problem with establishing that women are a protected class. It's always ok for women to use their sexuality in subtle or overt ways to advance their careers. Yet the man on the other side of this otherwise mutually beneficial transaction is a criminal. And so is the man who wants to avoid the transaction altogether.
How ever did women manage to control enough resources to survive for hundreds of thousands of years without employment lawyers?
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