The elevator question
Wednesday May 10th 2023, 9:18 pm
Filed under: Life,Politics

I thought this was brilliant so I wanted to pass it on. Conversation sparked by E. Jean Carroll’s success at holding her attacker accountable in a court of law.

The primary election season is coming up faster than we’d rather. So–and this is coming from a young and female point of view in a discussion that began for her with some friends in college–consider the candidates.

You’re on an elevator. It has no security cameras inside nor out. Someone else comes on. Do you instantly get off that elevator and wait for another one, or do you feel fine because there’s no need to have there be anyone else seeing much less recording what this guy’s going to do while you’re alone in a space together where nobody can intervene for you? Where nobody knows?

Now, if you’d want off that elevator car because you can’t trust that person with your personal space and body, why would you think he would have more empathy for the public at large than what you knew he didn’t have for the actual human being right in front of him? What kinds of choices would he make after being elected? After gaining the power he’d sought?

And then we talked about some of the political candidates we wouldn’t vote for but wouldn’t cry if they did get elected because we know they’re decent human beings with good intent.

Trustworthy.


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Some candidates, and some potential candidates, I wouldn’t trust with a puppy, never mind with my bodily autonomy. Up here in NH, the advertisements have begun, HARD, and I am exercising my mute button.

Comment by Pegi F 05.11.23 @ 3:38 am

Great conversation to have. Unfortunately the folks who really need to have that kind of conversation and think hard about it are the ones most likely not to. Which does not bode well for the outcome.

Comment by Chris+S+in+Canada 05.11.23 @ 7:20 am



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