Stalker Vance and the Real Meaning of “Childless Cat Ladies”
When people show you who they are, believe them
Politics is about power, and power has a political dimension. Power manifests not just on a grand scale but also on a very personal scale. Not all power is ugly and coercive, but some of it is.
JD Vance showed the world an audacious and childish display of manspreading power last week in Wisconsin. Another display of Vance’s power politics surfaced in an interview of his mansplaining of women. Women understand JD Vance and what he’s trying to accomplish. Men who don’t have their heads buried in the sand also get it.
What Vance Did and Said
Last week at a small airport in Wisconsin, JD Vance and a gaggle of hangers-on affected their best swagger and crossed over to where the press was gathered near Vice President Harris’s plane, Air Force 2. After getting some of the reporters’ attention, Vance announced with a practiced smirk that he was inspecting his “future plane.” There were no signs of amusement coming from the press corps, though that probably wasn’t what Vance was going for. He was manspreading.
Separated by several years but very much related to Vance’s tarmac swagger is the now viral video of Vance deriding many American women as…
