Female journalist told she needs male chaperone to cover Republican's campaign.

[Shadow Wolf]

That is the standards feminist shiboleth, but it doesn't appear to apply in this case.

From the article....
"A Republican candidate for Mississippi governor has been accused of sexism
after he banned a female political reporter from going on a campaign trip
without a male chaperone for fear of being accused of an extramarital affair."

If this is to be believed, it isn't about fears of what he himself might do.

From the article again, we find the (imagined, IMO) enemy....
"His campaign told her they feared if somebody took pictures of
him with Campbell, they could be used by rivals to smear him."

And he's an idiot if he actually thinks that. Pictures of him with a female shadow? Heaven forbid it means he's cheating! I can't think of many reasons for this decisions, none of them are flattery, and they all tend to sound like Pence or Saudi Arabia. We've come too far to let this fear and hysteria set back the progress women have made. This guy should be called at as the sexist he is. It's not her, it's all him.

 

[Father Heathen]

Maybe he should the way the American public has bought into the stupid psyop.

....."psyop"? Oh, boy. This should be entertaining. Go on, elaborate.

 

[Revoltingest]

And he's an idiot if he actually thinks that. Pictures of him with a female shadow? Heaven forbid it means he's cheating! I can't think of many reasons for this decisions, none of them are flattery, and they all tend to sound like Pence or Saudi Arabia. We've come too far to let this fear and hysteria set back the progress women have made. This guy should be called at as the sexist he is. It's not her, it's all him.

It could just be pandering to some demographic.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

It could just be pandering to some demographic.

He's pandering to a crowd that doesn't need pandered too. Theocrats need to be ran off, not defended or dismissed. They have no place, because they are too dangerous. Not if you love guns, corporations swinging on your nose, and the Bible way too much, but to everybody else they pose a threat in one way or another. Including themselves when humans destroy human life and most other life forms with it long before their god has a chance to, and the Earth was for us to use as we see fit, so it's all cool to them. They're up in heaven and some of them are smiling looking down and seeing us burning in hell.

 

[Revoltingest]

He's pandering to a crowd that doesn't need pandered too.

As one who's never run for office, I cannot judge the
utility of pandering to whatever group he's addressing.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

As one who's never run for office, I cannot judge the
utility of pandering to whatever group he's addressing.

Why should they even be a consideration? Them winning elections has dire consequences. They are gunning for Roe v Wade, they don't want kids knowing what a theory is, they teach that a vagina being sexually used is like a piece of chewing gum or scotch tape being used, and they aren't necessarily thinking long term because they believe gods going to destroy the world anyways, many of them believing it will happen within their lifetime.

 

[Revoltingest]

Why should they even be a consideration? Them winning elections has dire consequences. They are gunning for Roe v Wade, they don't want kids knowing what a theory is, they teach that a vagina being sexually used is like a piece of chewing gum or scotch tape being used, and they aren't necessarily thinking long term because they believe gods going to destroy the world anyways, many of them believing it will happen within their lifetime.

Everyone who runs for office tries to win,
whether we agree with their agenda or not.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Everyone who runs for office tries to win,
whether we agree with their agenda or not.

Yes. It's problematic should their agenda be a threat to the American public (and international community) at large.

 

[Stevicus]

He's pandering to a crowd that doesn't need pandered too. Theocrats need to be ran off, not defended or dismissed. They have no place, because they are too dangerous. Not if you love guns, corporations swinging on your nose, and the Bible way too much, but to everybody else they pose a threat in one way or another. Including themselves when humans destroy human life and most other life forms with it long before their god has a chance to, and the Earth was for us to use as we see fit, so it's all cool to them. They're up in heaven and some of them are smiling looking down and seeing us burning in hell.

This is Mississippi we're talking about.

Not that I have anything against Mississippi. It's actually a beautiful state.

But it's also got a lot of poverty and often comes in dead last when it comes to education and other quality of life indicators. Arizona comes pretty close to dead last, but thanks to Mississippi, we're not the worst.