Whether it's inspired by courtliness or his interpretation of religious prescription for fidelity or lack of trust in his resistance to temptation or perhaps penance for past indiscretions, Mike Pence's revelations this week about his personal policy of keeping himself physically separated from women outside the company of his wife are of course his choice and his parameters for making his marriage work. But now that he's chosen to make this information public in his capacity as a public figure, it's fair game for both thoughtful scrutiny and for the withering ridicule and satire such as this that it's generated all over social and Fourth Estate media. And it raises grave concerns about his attitudes and behaviors and implied condescension toward an entire half of the world population, which could make him fundamentally incapable of presiding over a First World country whether he's conducting day-to-day meetings with legislators and White House staff or brokering trade deals and diplomatic alliances with world leaders.
And even if in professional circumstances such as these he violates his own rules on the issue, he's already contaminated himself with the stink of patronizing, possibly chauvinistic ridiculousness. Which continues to undermine his credibility as a political leader, a social player and even a rational thinker.
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