This is so 2020’s, but, then, Michele Weldon does sorta actually have a point
During Zoom calls, keep your pants on: It’s not prudishness, it’s white male privilege
No, it’s not prudishness, it’s proper decorum, proper propriety, proper business actions
There have been many moments in the last 18 years when I have said aloud, “Thank God Mom is not here for that.â€
My late mother, steeped in traditional Catholicism and modesty, leaned pretty far right in her values and had strong expressions on what she considered moral and absolute. Jeffrey Toobin and his Zoom incident would have made her implode, or close to it. (snip)
Vice reported this week that Toobin, a lawyer, New Yorker contributor and CNN analyst, was seen masturbating on a Zoom video chat between work colleagues. He has been suspended by the New Yorker. Much of the ongoing media reaction has centered on what Toobin called his “embarrassingly stupid mistake.†Some white male pundits dismiss the uproar as prudish, while others call for the end of his public career.
She is kinda right, because, consider all the white male pundits who were, in fact, dismissing Toobin having his wanker out and wanking it during a business call.
What is not mentioned often is the inherent white privilege and sexism embedded in the defense of his action. I find his public display of his privates not only improper, but immoral — and maybe illegal.
I hate to say it, but, if you ignore the Snowflakeishness, she does have a point, but, then, would a woman have done what Toobin did? It’s more like Liberal Privilege, because you know any Republican dumb enough to do what Toobin did would have been fired on the spot. But, Toobin is a Reliable Media Asset, so, just a suspension.
But then again, a man’s genitals are not deemed a threat but a woman’s breasts are.
A new mother was forbidden from breastfeeding her infant during a virtual stats class at Fresno City College recently. Her professor told her she could not turn off her video during the four-hour session and told the entire class the new mother wanted to do ‘inappropriate things during class.â€
And this is when we run off the rails. Had Toobin whipped it out in public he would have been arrested. Further, what’s the over/under that the professor was actually a Biden voter, considering how overwhelmingly liberal teachers are?
Yes, the New Yorker has suspended (but not fired) Toobin for the time being and CNN says he is taking “time off.†It is his American white privilege and his maleness that protects him from what in other countries has stiffer consequences.
According to News America, Haiti’s Consul to the Bahamas Karl-Henry Châtelier “was fired after a video allegedly of him masturbating surfaced on social media.â€
Liberal Media Privilege. Anyhow, read the rest
