WHAT’S GOOD FOR THE GOOSE …

Depends on the president

Women who read The Atlantic must be a little confused about all that #MeToo stuff.

The left-wing magazine, in an article published last week titled “The First Porn President,” describes former President John F. Kennedy, a known womanizer, as “the king of cool, the ironist-in-chief.” The 35th president is painted as an “urbane, sophisticated” man who was “able to handle a wide variety of amorous,” high-profile women, according to writer Caitlin Flanagan. She recounts, for instance, the president’s 1962 birthday party at Madison Square Garden, where actress Marilyn Monroe cooed “Happy birthday, Mr. President.”

Then there’s the “frat-boy president,” Bill Clinton, she writes. “He could cheerfully reach into an enthusiastic intern’s pants, and then without washing his hands, pick up the phone and conduct the nation’s business. He was careless, self-confident, a winner.” Yet, the writer says, he “was humbled and embarrassed” by his mistreatment of women.

Actually, we don’t remember him talking much about his mistreatment of women.

However, she writes the current occupant of the White House is a boor, is unattractive and apparently considers any previous alleged liaisons with women only transactional in nature. It’s only about money with him, she concludes.

Women, Flanagan seems to be saying, can allow themselves to be used and abandoned, but they just need to be sure those who perpetrate them are high class or are just a little sorry about what they’ve done. Or maybe it’s that the first two are Democrats and the third a Republican.

Nevertheless, we don’t believe this is what most 2018 women have in mind.