As I said yesterday, Biden's "handsiness" is a bit strange.
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Hence, under today's microscope, Biden's handsiness appears less innocent than before.
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Biden's issues with gender, after all, go far beyond chronic handsiness.
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It's not just the "aw shucks" gaffes or occasional handsiness or protective-father-figure-on-steroids quips.
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It's a potentially meaningful relationship that explains why Gaston blankly tolerates LeFou's creepy handsiness, and why LeFou sticks with a loudmouthed bully.
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He should defend his support for criminal-justice reform, explain his opposition to busing—and apologise to Ms Hill and to anyone upset by his handsiness.
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And it's possible that Biden will finally enter the race and defy both his anemic performance in previous presidential contests and the emerging #MeToo narrative about his handsiness.
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His aforementioned handsiness may not be ultimately disqualifying, but his failure to honestly understand why it would be upsetting (he's joked about it in public) certainly should be.
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Trump's explicit, rape-y chitchat and incorrigible handsiness might now be a rarity on the national stage of presidential politics, but it's just one facet of persistent antifeminism that defines the GOP.
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" Andrew Sullivan added his voice as well in a New York Magazine piece that disparaged the "ambiguous and trivial cases" of "mild handsiness" he believes have condemned men to "social ostracism and career destruction.
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C., he's-from-a-different-time stuff, encompassing everything from his handsiness with women to his recent lament for the lost days when you could smoke cigars with segregationist Democrats and cut deals with Rockefeller Republicans.
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But even if you overlook this candidate's handsiness or that one's casual male entitlement, the idea that men are poor allies is supported by evidence: Surveys show that men significantly underestimate the frequency of sexual harassment of women.
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And so we have another debate about male decency and respect, trying to weigh creepiness against over-exuberant affection, handsiness against glad-handing, all the while remembering that this is Joe Biden we're talking about, a retail-politics guy from another era, known for arm grabs and bear hugs (you'd see this all the time on the Senate floor — the shoulder squeezing, the close-talking).
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Kinsky explains his theory that women who get tattoos, which he calls "the mark", do so out of a desire to belong. The two go upstairs to dine, and listen to Buddy's music. Kinsky tells Maddy she deserves better than Buddy, citing his handsiness. Maddy calls him "old-fashioned", but begins to makes a pass at him.
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