OPINION Joe Biden: Where does friendly end and creepy start?
"Creepy uncle" or harmless, "grandad-too-touchy-for-2019"? This is the question being asked of former US vice-president, and potential 2020 Presidential candidate Joe Biden, and dividing social media.
Interestingly, the debate raging over just how far Mr Biden has strayed into the #MeToo no man's land is being fought along generational, not gender, lines. If you sift out the opposition henchmen sniffing blood, older commenters see more of an affectionate/avuncular thing going on, while many younger ones believe such uninvited touching crosses a line.I am not young and I would not particularly relish someone sliding in as handsy and nosey close as we see Mr Biden making a habit of doing.
"I felt him get closer to me from behind. He leaned further in and inhaled my hair. I was mortified," Flores wrote. A montage of stills of Mr Biden posing shampoo-smell close in photos with women and girls at political events is also doing the rounds. Of the countless women he has greeted or posed with, of course it is edited only to show the ones who do not appear overly thrilled – read surprised, a bit irked, or actually recoiling.
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