COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE INDEPENDENT
"Emmanuel Macron
blames 'homophobia' and 'misogyny' for obsession with his older wife"
Well, now, he would, wouldn't he?
These are favorite totemic words to be tossed about by
today's establishment and corporate press. Just as prevalent and meaningless
and tiresome as "anti-Semitism."
And if there is anything Macron is, it is establishment.
France just elected a polished corporate vapidity as its president.
A very unattractive man who fits in well with the likes of
Hollande or Fillon, polished, egotistical liars who offer the French people
very little indeed.
And we know - from information posted on the Internet,
but banned from all publication in France by the pathetic Hollande - that this
man broke tax laws and plays covert games with his money.
As far as his wife goes - and I find her an attractive woman
regardless of age - the source of people's concerns is nevertheless legitimate,
teachers hopping into bed with students. She is twenty years older than he is
because she was the 15-year old boy's teacher.
Is that something we really want to legitimize and paint as
charming?
That is certainly what the establishment press has been
doing.
Clearly, such personal behavior causes stress and grief for
many witnesses, from parents to other students concerned with favoritism.
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Response to another
reader:
I respect privacy, too, but it is not an absolute.
There are private matters that spill out into public concern
because they involve serious ethical issues.
This is a case resembling a person shot in the abdomen whose
'guts" spill out on the floor for all to see.
If this age difference had been part of a relationship
started later in life and under different circumstances than a pupil-teacher
relationship, no one would have any business being critical.
But, you see, Macron is a man with almost no political
background, so he has not had to face such criticisms.
He was hurriedly selected by establishment figures as
someone to stuff into a hole in the political dykes.
They were desperate, given the known crippling crookedness
of other potential Le Pen opponents such as Fillon, who superficially had
seemed an attractive candidate.
Macron is a corporate milquetoast who just happens to have
an ugly skeleton in his closet, and, given the circumstances, I think people
have every right to object.
It is not about age. It is not about misogyny. It is about
elevating a pretty ugly set of circumstances into acceptable behavior.
In today's world - with a lot of concern over sexual
predators and pedophilia, the Jimmy Saviles and Rolf Harrises of this world
about which there used to be silence - I do think people are not being unfair
to criticize the behavior of this teacher with her young student.
Not at all.
