Perspective: Biden says it was 'never [his] intention' to make anyone uncomfortable, but people have vastly different comfort levels with his behavior. There’s no point system for determining harassment, MonicaHesse writes.
Former vice president Joe Biden speaks at the Biden Courage Awards on March 26 in New York. By Monica Hesse Monica Hesse Style reporter Email Bio Follow Columnist April 3 at 2:18 PM Here are the Joe Biden facts, spread out like Scrabble tiles, waiting to be combined into something coherent:
Joe Biden says it was “never [his] intention” to make anyone uncomfortable. “The boundaries of protecting personal space have been reset,” he said in a video posted to Twitter on Wednesday. “And I get it.” Into the facts, we can throw the nuances. The double-letter and triple-word scores. The context, the backstory, the things we’ve gotten better at understanding and talking about.People of all genders have vastly different comfort levels when it comes to being touched, or being touched by strangers, or being touched by vice presidents.
Not all buffoonery is malevolent. Not all buffoons can perpetually get away with saying, “I didn’t realize,” because after a while, after enough onlookers have said, “Hey, that’s gross,” they should have realized. Where is the Anita Hill square, for example? Where is the square that acknowledges Biden’s presiding role during her agonizing Senate testimony and how his explanations for his handling of it have continued to be tepid?
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