As Twitchy reported earlier, former Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday spoke at an anti-sexual assault rally at the University in Miami and repeated his threat to have taken Donald Trump behind the gym for a Biden beatdown over his treatment of women.
“If we were in high school, I’d take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him,” Biden told the crowd.
That macho posturing didn’t sit well with the folks at Salon, who called out Biden for his fantasies of a high school Trump beating.
Hey, Joe Biden: Your macho fantasies about a Trump beatdown don’t help women https://t.co/00zv74RXEr
— Salon (@Salon) March 21, 2018
Let’s start with the low-hanging fruit, even for powerful allies. Can we declare a moratorium on glorifying violence, on celebrating the patriarchal ideal of man as enforcer and protector, and on equating (even in the inverse) athletic prowess with good character? Because these ingrained cultural habits have historically not been kind to women and girls.
Taking someone behind the gym and beating the hell out of him is an ego-driven enterprise, a poor way of preventing future sexual assaults, and also — oh yeah! — an illegal criminal assault.
So, not only is Biden fantasizing about commiting assault — he’s also “celebrating the patriarchal idea of man as enforcer and protector” (and compulsive hair sniffer).
Poor Joe … when even Salon can’t cheer your anecdotes about beating up the president behind the school gym.
https://twitter.com/Moj_kobe/status/976600505400025088
Lol wow. https://t.co/Ls7ggr4pnQ
— Chad Felix Greene (@chadfelixg) March 21, 2018
There it is https://t.co/O8PYepYoCO
— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) March 21, 2018
https://twitter.com/Conn52J/status/976601758326755333
Can’t wait for the geriatric asthma deferment to fight the geriatric foot deferment.
The real question is: who has inappropriately touched the most women? My guess is Biden.
— Kevin Gallagher (@liberty_kevin) March 21, 2018
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Oh, PLEASE! Joe Biden's got SOME nerve taking on Trump with THIS tough-guy talk https://t.co/JRIkf8yX0e
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) March 21, 2018
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