Democratic Primaries

......did is not that it’s sexual—rather, it’s that it wreaks of male privilege.

No woman would have touched him in these ways. No secretary blows on and kisses her boss’s hair.

By dominating the space of the women he knows, or on his staff, in these male—only ways, it operates as a kind of micro-aggression.

This does not rise to the level of sexual harassment—but the exercise of unconscious privilege, repeatedly, over many years, in a grown man, is never attractive.