Aug 27, 2024
BIZARRE Op-Ed About Doug Emhoff Is Raising Eyebrows
Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell called Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff a “Modern Day Sex Symbol.”
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To Kamala. Who?
Well, we just saw where she is.
She's out on the trail listening
to and talking with voters.
Honey, I can't wait for you
to come back to Chicago
because we're having a great time here.
His most appropriate title?
[00:00:16]
Progressive sex symbol.
Move over, Ryan Gosling.
The modern female fantasy
is embodied by the man who might
soon become our first gentleman.
Emhoff is secure enough
with his own masculinity to sometimes,
sometimes prioritize his wife's ambitions
over his own in italics.
[00:00:34]
- What a hunk.
- Megyn Kelly is right.
This is a story where I'm going
to agree with Megyn Kelly.
Now, she was responding to an op ed
written in the Washington Post
about Kamala Harris husband, Doug Emhoff,
who I'm sure is a wonderful person.
[00:00:53]
But maybe we just leave it at that instead
of trying to make him a sex symbol.
And that is exactly
what the op ed was seeking to do.
- Okay, Are you ready for me to shock you?
- No. Come on, Jake, please don't do it.
Don't do it.
I partly agree
with the central thesis of the article.
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Okay, so I can explain
but do you want to know?
[00:01:28]
I can already predict.
But let's get to what the op ed said okay.
Because the op ed does list some things
that are wonderful about Doug Emhoff
as an individual, as a man, as a person.
Right.
There are lots of wonderful people
in the world, okay?
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I don't want to sleep with all of them.
Okay.
Not even close.
So, like, I don't understand this.
Weird.
Like objectifying him as a sex symbol
when you can just outline how impressed
you are based on his character, based
on who he is as a husband, as a father.
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So it's titled Doug Emhoff,
modern day sex symbol.
Okay.
Emhoff is secure enough with his
own masculinity to sometimes prioritize
his wife's ambitions over his own.
What a hunk is he?
I mean, okay, a hunk is a hunk, right?
Like, anyway.
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Okay, let me just.
Doug Emhoff has been called
many things in recent years.
Second gentleman, goofy dad.
I don't know
who calls him crappy Jew, but.
- No, Trump did.
- That's why.
Oh, okay.
But perhaps his most appropriate title.
Progressive sex symbol.
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Is it is it an appropriate title?
Like why? Why?
Okay. Move over.
Ryan Gosling, the modern female fantasies
embodied by the man who might soon become
our first first gentleman.
Emhoff appears to be a genuine mensch
with an impressive career.
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He's smitten with his wife
and supports her ambitions.
As is obvious from his convention speech
and their sweet interactions
on the campaign trail.
That's wonderful. He's a wonderful guy.
So, like. Why?
Okay, let me put it this way.
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Let's think about a powerful woman
in politics.
Kamala Harris.
I remember when Obama just implied
very like innocently in my opinion,
that Kamala Harris is hot, right?
Yeah. And like, the world exploded.
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Michelle Obama exploded, but.
Oh, I didn't think about that.
Okay, maybe.
I mean, I personally would not like it
if my husband said that
on the world stage, but.
Okay.
But like, there was also accusations
that Obama was being sexist.
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Would anyone say this
about a man who's attractive?
Like people were upset.
And so if you don't want female
politicians to be objectified like that,
why are we randomly objectifying
Emhoff of all people in that way?
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Yeah.
All right, so first of all, I get it.
Second of all, I love him. First of all.
- Do you want to sleep with.
- Him?
No. But I can relate
as a fellow sex symbol.
You know.
Just celebrate someone
being a good person.
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You don't have to turn them
into a sex symbol.
It makes no sense.
I like that, Skip. Our stage manager left.
Okay.
No, seriously, guys,
a couple of things here.
I am serious about some of it.
So number one.
Okay. Why do I like Doug Emhoff?
I wrote this on Twitter.
People, like, exploded.
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Like, do you like establishment?
Hold on, calm down, calm down.
So in his speech, he explained how he grew
up and it was identical to how I grew up.
So riding your bike in new Jersey,
the garages are open.
You get to your friends house, whoever's
house you are at, you eat dinner, you
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got the couch, couches covered in plastic.
He grew up in Jersey.
He played fantasy football
for several decades, like I have.
I mean, just every became
a lawyer like I did.
ET cetera.
Every part of his story was resonated with
me, and he seemed like a super sweet guy.
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Okay, now that's just why
I have an affinity towards him.
- Okay.
- Are you aroused?
No, no. Not yet.
So then I read the article and.
Look, her main point is,
that standards for what is hot for guys
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has changed a little bit.
Has it? It used to be.
Now, when you get just outside of.
Looks like on looks, it is what it is.
Right.
But, like the guy who play around
more of a macho man, etc.,
used to be more popular.
She's like, now a guy
who supports his wife and and her career
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and his understanding about it
is hot to a lot of women.
Can we have both? Yeah.
Of course.
I mean, ideally you want both,
but what she's pointing out is that the
culture has shifted a little bit so that
women think, oh, what Emhoff is doing,
especially for a lot of career women
who take a lot of crap
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for their careers and, and and it's
tough to handle the marriage and the kids
and the career at the same time.
When a guy steps up and goes,
you know what?
Why don't we prioritize your career?
I'll continue mine.
But, you know, we're going to prioritize.
Look, I don't know that I could do it,
to be honest.
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But when guys do do it in situations
like this, a lot of women do find it hard.
I okay.
I disagree,
but I don't speak for all women.
And I think that's probably part
of the reason why I'm pushing
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back against this a little bit.
Like, I don't like when one
woman comes out and then like,
sets the tone for all women.
You don't speak for all women.
And there's lots of variation in what
women find attractive, and I disagree.
I don't want like,
I'll talk about my marriage specifically.
I don't want my husband to prioritize
my career over his own career.
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I want us to both have our careers,
and I want us
to both support each other equally.
And that's what we do. And it works out.
Like, look, I, I think it's bad for
a marriage to prioritize one person
over the other, right?
I think that builds resentment eventually.
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Yeah. Look.
And overall, of course,
of course I agree with you.
But sometimes when your wife
is the vice president of the United States
and she's running for president, we're
going to prioritize her career, right?
I hear what you're saying,
and that's just what happens.
And that's okay.
And by the way, Usha Vance, who's also
very successful, has now also stopped
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doing her law career to help JD Vance run,
just like Emhoff did with Kamala Harris.
But that's part of my point.
What's good for the goose
is good for the gander.
And so now that some guys
are doing that, God bless.
Look, and I say it as a guy who can't do
it because I can't stop, and, and I'm
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so driven that I can't I just can't stop.
Right.
So but maybe in a weird way, that makes me
respect them more that they, they can and
they could be strong enough to do that.
I don't know, but my overall,
I agree with you, Anna.
To each his own.
Whoever can do whatever they like.
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God bless. Right.
And it's one place where she goes
wrong of course, this is obvious.
And what's setting you off
and everybody else off
is you don't have to say sex symbol.
Yeah. Sex.
Like, come on.
Come on, come on.
Like you can say, hey, that's hot.
That's cool. We appreciate that.
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That's the new kind of man
that women appreciate.
The culture is shifting.
All that makes sense.
I know why you're putting
sex symbol in there, because it's going
to get a lot more attention.
And it did.
Congratulations. Mission accomplished.
Final thing I'll say is women finding
themselves attracted to men based
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on personality traits or characteristics,
as opposed to the way they look,
is the oldest thing in the world.
Like women have always been like that.
That is not new.
So yeah, yeah.
Also, sex symbols should be hot like me.
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