On, To The (Maybe Not So-) Trivial: Hinderaker Cannot Fathom A Husband Being Considerate, To His Wife (For Example)

Of course, his aim is just to be an embittered old coot, and aggrieved — that not everyone shares his 19^the Century views. [And it turns out that his source had to run a correction, since there were ALSO women’s rooms. So the whole set up was… a lie. But whatever — why quibble?]

In seeking to attack the Democratic Convention in Chicago tonight, the most salient thing he can settle upon… is (preposterously!) that there are “gender neutral” restrooms, there — and there are tampon dispensers in the men’s rooms. “Oh — the humanities.”

Y A W N.

It is trivial — and we may stipulate that he seeks a wedge issue. Dullard.

But it is clear his wife would never have asked him (decades ago, now as they are both in their dotage) to go find a sanitary napkin or a tampon, had her period come early, whilst wearing a pair of white slacks… at a Bulls or Blackhawks game, for example. [The DNC is tonight in the “House That Michael Jordan Built”, on West Madison, BTW.]

The convenience of being able to pay a quarter to get one, for one’s wife or GF, in a men’s room is a wonder of the 21^st Century (in my opinion). We know the drill: she sits in the seat, frozen and mortified, with legs crossed — hoping, but still afraid to move or get out of her seat (and maybe even tying a coat or sweater around her waist, for the mad-dash to the restrooms). [So aside from his prejudice — his own enlightened self interest, even for the husbands of his daughters, alone today — should change his views. But it won’t.]

But we also know his wife would never ask him to help, in this way, when they were both younger. He would have scoffed, pulling on his stogie, and sipping his bourbon — saying that is a “woman” problem. He would certainly ignore her plight.

She’d end up humiliated, and slink from her seat by tying her coat tightly around her waist — to go wash up in a women’s room, alone. But there even in the 1990s, she likely would have found sympathetic sisters — who’d have pitched in to help. Women, like the one at lower right — or Michelle Obama, or AOC or yes… Hillary Clinton. Or dozens of less famous, unknown ones. Sisters help one another — support one another. Nurture one another. But not John. Nope.

So… this post by John tonight, is telling in highly unflattering ways, about how he likely treats his own wife — and adult daughters. Maybe not so trivial, after all.

D A M N A T I O N.