Is impeachment of Gov. Andrew Cuomo for his rather pathetic, bumbling passes at female staffers a sensible way to go? Impeaching him for cooking the covid books and making stupid, lethal decisions about nursing home admissions might indeed be sensible, but the vocal musing of an aging alpha male's hankering for a fling is scarcely the stuff of outrageous fortune.
I get it, all the #MeToo HadEnough. I'm sympathetic. Really. But enfolded in all the "Cuomo Canceling" is the retrograde opinion among both genders that women are too delicate, too dainty, too utterly self-defenseless that they're inherently incapable of giving Andrew a swift kick in the balls, figuratively speaking — or, on a better day, literally.
I also possess no little appreciation of the charge of power imbalance, which is far from negligible. Yet for an aggressive, truculent, self-adulating ape like Cuomo — he's no tea-partying, crumpets-crunching, Spinoza-quoting Adlai Stevenson — it's hardly a shock that he wished not to keep his oh-so piously Catholic dick in his pants. Applicants beware.
The New York governor has now plodded the humiliating path of public shaming, apologizing, sincerely or not, for his masculine toxicity. That, however, should be the least of his troubles. See: data, nursing homes. And those women who only figuratively kicked him in the balls should schedule a meeting to carry out that long-honored tradition of doing the real thing. Women are not defenseless.
And for my opinion I most sincerely do not apologize.