All in all, the refusal to include women in their lives reveals that these politicians solely value the opposite sex for their sexual consumption, and nothing else.
State Representative Robert Foster denied access to reporter Larrison Campbell on a campaign trip, unless she agreed to be accompanied by a male colleague, out of a purported respect for his wife. A second candidate, former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Bill Waller Jr., went on the record to confirm that he follows the “Billy Graham Rule,” named after the Christian Evangelical leader who resolved to avoid any interactions alone with women who were not his wife.
So what are these politicians’ reasonings for invoking the age-old misogynist tradition of “separate spheres?” While excuses vary, they all contain the familiar sting of male righteousness and entitlement, with the wholehearted belief that they are actually doing the good, and right thing. Foster, the first Mississippi candidate to publicly ascribe to the Billy Graham rule, claimed he was doing so out of respect for his wife, in the same vein as Mike Pence.
What really gets me is the extreme anxiety in having"a #MeToo moment"—with many men believing that the solution is to avoid women altogether. The lines are not that blurry, and a grown adult should be able to be alone in a room with a woman without fear of “accidentally” sexually harassing or assaulting her. Just don’t sexually assault or harass her. It's that simple—
Further, by avoiding them altogether, these men are putting the burden of their own discomfort entirely on the women. Instead of not raping women, they exclude them from meetings and press trips. Instead of simply not cheating on one’s wife, they block women from promotions and top office positions.
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