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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He said she'd have to bring a male chaperone if she wanted to interview him

https://mississippitoday.org/2019/07/09/robert-foster-gop-governor-candidate-denies-woman-reporter-access-because-of-her-gender/

[quote]In recent weeks, in an attempt to better inform readers about candidates in the upcoming Republican gubernatorial primary, Mississippi Today has asked to shadow each contender seeking the GOP nomination.

Bill Waller, a former state supreme court chief justice, and Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves agreed to ride alongs with Mississippi Today reporter Adam Ganucheau.

The other candidate — state Rep. Robert Foster, R-Hernando — declined, however, because I am a woman.

In two phone calls this week, Colton Robison, Foster’s campaign director, said a male colleague would need to accompany this reporter on an upcoming 15-hour campaign trip because they believed the optics of the candidate with a woman, even a working reporter, could be used in a smear campaign to insinuate an extramarital affair.[/quote]

On Twitter this smug POS said it was "out of respect for his wife"

https://twitter.com/RobertFoster4MS/status/1148791254513258496

[quote]Before our decision to run, my wife and I made a commitment to follow the “Billy Graham Rule”, which is to avoid any situation that may evoke suspicion or compromise of our marriage. I am sorry Ms. Campbell doesn’t share these views, but my decision was out of respect of my wife.[/quote]

But certainly these Republican men aren't trying to deny women full agency over our lives - the right to be complete participants in public life, and in the workplace.

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Can’t fault him for honoring his wife.

Case dismissed.[/quote]
If “honoring” his wife means implying that a professional women are lying sloots bent on destroying his reputation, then it’s not really honoring her so much as it’s fundamentalist virtue signaling. It’s misogyny.

Frankly, I really do think the guy is saying he can’t be trusted and we should oblige him by locking him up.[/quote]

DP.  You have serious issues.  Plus, an over-fondness for the word "misogyny."  It's clear you really have no clue what the word means.  [/quote]
When you have to insult someone to make a point...

This is misogyny. I think it’s you who doesn’t understand the word or the sordid world of the fundamentalists. Their hatred of women (that’s the bare bones meaning of “misogyny,” FYI) is rooted in their misinterpretation of the Bible, in their belief that women are lesser beings, made literally by God from Adam’s rib, meant to be lesser and suffer for the rest of human times because of Eve’s disobedience. Truly. This is what they believe. They believe women should be guarding the hearth m, although since Phyllis Schlafly, advancing the retrograde political causes they espouse is acceptable too.

So they take the tack that women who do not share their beliefs are jezebels and need to be isolated. The assumption that they’ll all just start sexing the menfolk or just make such stories up is rooted in their belief that women can’t be trusted. THAT’S MISOGYNY. It’s also religious discrimination.[/quote]

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