If Doug Emhoff is the brand new face of masculinity, I’ll take a tough cross.
Give me the Marlboro Man, or anybody who was in a Gillette advert earlier than the razor firm determined to lecture America concerning the inherent crappiness of males.
Or somebody who hasn’t been accused of forcefully slapping their girlfriend in public — at the same time as he’s heralded as the largest lift-up-the-ladies dude since Jerry Springer performed the Masculine Feminist on “Married with Kids.”
Simply three days in the past, in an MSNBC interview, Jen Psaki gushed over the feminism of Kamala Harris’ husband, telling Emhoff that he “reshaped the notion of masculinity” and was a “spouse man.”
Emhoff shamelessly mentioned that he was at all times that means: “It’s the correct factor to do … girls shouldn’t be lower than.”
That’s, except that girl’s story will get in the way in which of the left’s empty “consider all girls” narrative.
Psaki, a former Biden administration flack, made no point out of Emhoff allegedly impregnating his youngsters’ nanny in 2009 whereas he was married to his first spouse, Kerstin Emhoff.
Now, Harris and her media lapdogs are predictably silent as it’s alleged that, in 2012, Emhoff slapped an ex-girlfriend so exhausting that she spun round.
The disturbing claims had been reported by the Each day Mail, which spoke to a few mates of the alleged sufferer, a New York govt Emhoff reportedly dated for 3 months. The pair had been attending a gala throughout the Cannes Movie Pageant when he allegedly assaulted her as a result of he thought she was flirting with a valet.
Associates, who supplied detailed paperwork to again up the pair’s journey, claimed the lady slapped him again and that he pressured his means into her cab. They broke up that evening however, sources claimed, Emhoff didn’t apologize.
He has additionally not but denied the declare or issued any public assertion.
Fairly darkish stuff. Particularly since he’s made the rounds boasting of his enlightened views on feminine empowerment.
“That is one thing I’ve thought of rather a lot, I’ve spoken about rather a lot,” he instructed Jonathan Capehart — once more, on lib-friendly MSNBC — in 2023. “There’s an excessive amount of of toxicity — masculine toxicity on the market, and we’ve type of confused what it means to be a person, what it means to be masculine. You’ve acquired this trope on the market the place it’s important to be powerful, and indignant, and lash out to be sturdy.”
Yikes.
We’ve been knowledgeable by Oprah, crowing on the DNC, that “decency and respect are on the poll in 2024.”
It’s not very first rate to hit a girl. And Harris, given her professedcommitment to feminine victims of abuse, needs to be outraged by these darkish revelations.
As ought to all of the A-list girls who cheer her: girls like Julia Roberts, Taylor Swift, Jennifer Lopez and Meryl Streep, who famously referred to as Harvey Weinstein “God.”
Keep in mind the infinite assume items on poisonous masculinity after Christine Blasey Ford accused then Supreme Court docket nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her after they had been in highschool? Although she couldn’t keep in mind a time or place, nor set up that she and Kavanaugh really knew one another, it didn’t cease the media from trying to forged him as an unredeemable monster.
Many ladies within the media wore black to help Blasey Ford. Actors like Allison Janey, Kerry Washington and Debra Messing walked off their Hollywood units.
One of many girls who took half in that performative social media occasion? Then Senator Kamala Harris.
“Wore black in the present day in help of all survivors of sexual assault or abuse. We gained’t allow them to be silenced or ignored. #BelieveSurvivors,” she posted.
Nobody is sporting the darkish shade of mourning in the present day. There aren’t any hashtags. No outrage. Pleasure nonetheless reigns. Emhoff remains to be brat.
A fast Google seek for the Second Gentleman produces nary a point out of this alleged assault. Most media has ignored it. Politico has nothing about it, however has tweeted a chunk opining that J.D. Vance’s beard “may be detrimental, conveying aggression and opposition to feminist beliefs.”
Hey, a minimum of Emhoff didn’t use the violent phrase “childless cat girls.”
And to anybody who says, “however he’s not the one working for workplace”: If Nancy “Simply Say No” Reagan had secretly hosted coke events, we might have cared. Supporting females is Emhoff’s total character. Admittedly, Trump has his personal baggage and accusations, as we’re reminded every day, however he makes no declare to an ethical excessive floor.
Should you’re going to construct your political id on being the get together of ladies believing girls and supporting victims, discover a constant line. Not simply when it’s politically expedient.
In any other case, the hashtag shouldn’t be #BelieveWomen. It needs to be #BelieveWomenOnOurSide.