From Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged:
I don’t think allegations about Biden are exactly of a “Me too” nature–they are “me too-ish”. What he does physically regarding people isn’t sexual in nature, but it is gendered. It is more avuncularly affectionate than many people are with their natural uncles, but it isn’t nephews he’s showering with noggin smooches and careless kuniks. It’s the nieces he’s loving to pieces, and that is possibly an unconscious bias, but one that has to be recognized. We’ve discovered lately that Congress has been stupid about sexual harassment, so many years after Sen. Packwood’s scandal, and it’s been in a somewhat smoochy and gladhandy environment an older politician like Biden might have formed his ideas about good touch and not so good touch. And those ideas might be as outdated as rumaki and Jello salads. It isn’t intentionally harmful in his case–it just isn’t really good.
So is this disqualifying? Well, not exactly? It’s not so much “bad wrong” as “different culture” wrong, where people have a more clear sense of touch they don’t want and so many human resource department manuals all over the country have defined things like these interactions as being so much “nope” here in 2019.
Is it something Biden can overcome…