Lucy Flores has no real claim to be part of the #MeToo movement, but there she is in the New York Times, still pretending she was seriously violated when Joe Biden inhaled her hair.
Flores wrote Monday in an op-ed that she and other women are still waiting on an apology from Biden, as he gets his 2020 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination moving.
“The #MeToo movement wasn’t just a flash in the pan,” she wrote. “It marked a profound tectonic shift toward continued female empowerment and self-realization that’s still evolving, and the ongoing rumbling continues to cause all kinds of discomfort.”
She said that with #MeToo, “we tapped into a newfound power that, first and foremost, demanded accountability, and the offenders were plentiful and easy to spot.”
Excuse me, but who is this “we” she’s speaking of?
The #MeToo movement was created to address creepy horndogs like Harvey Weinstein and Mark Halperin — men who had explicitly and sexually forced themselves on their victims. When did it become a catch-all for any woman who had her personal space slightly intruded upon?
Flores’ melodramatic accusation is that at a campaign event in 2014, Biden puts his hands on her shoulders, pressed his face into her hair and kissed the back of her head.
It was the kind of encouraging gesture that Biden is known to offer. It sounds awkward, and no one can blame Flores for feeling repulsed when remembering it. But if this is what #MeToo has become, elevating mildly stressful encounters to sit equally with groping, uninvited nudity, and even violent assault, no one should take it seriously anymore
The whole movement is becoming a joke as people with no claim increasingly take the role of aggrieved victim. Look at the one that the Washington Post included in a report earlier this month about women alleging “encounters with [Biden] that made them feel uncomfortable.”
Sofie Karasek met Biden at the 2016 Oscars ceremony and recalled telling him about a woman she knew and who had committed suicide after being sexually assaulted. Biden grabbed Karasek’s hands and leaned in so that their foreheads were touching. The moment was caught in a photograph that went viral.
At the time, the Post called the photo “powerful.”
Karasek herself framed the picture and proudly displayed it on a shelf. She only took it down, according to the Post, “as the #MeToo movement began drawing more attention to cases of sexual harassment, assault and unwanted touching.”
This isn’t the #MeToo movement as we knew it. This is the left-wing of the Democratic Party using it as a weapon. This is a warning that the movement can be used to take anyone out. This is Biden being made into an example.
