Comments on: The NY Times looks at gay men working in the Trump administration

By: Wendy K Laubach

Wendy K Laubach — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 02:14:55 +0000

Pres. Trump values his female allies too obviously to be what I would call a sexist. I understand the idea that it’s sexist to think of pretty young woman primarily as potential sexual conquests, but if that’s sexism, it’s the healthiest and least troubling possible manifestation, especially if force is never involved.

I never cared if a boss was a hound-dog, as long as he was capable of interacting with me as a professional and left the hound-dogging to women who wanted to interact with him in that way. Especially when I was coming of age in the 1970s and 80s, there were plenty of men who found it almost impossible to take a woman seriously as a full human being, quite apart from whether they were gentlemen in their social/sexual interactions. Trump has never seemed to be that way. He loves competence wherever he finds it.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 21:14:01 +0000

‘Sexist’ is a nonsense term.

By: Tom Grey

Tom Grey — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 21:02:10 +0000

Marlene, Marisa, thanks for comments. Trump is less sexist than Bill Clinton, or JFK, RFK, LBJ, or MLK jr (60s), and I’ve voted for him 3x despite his cheating on his first 2 wives & other sexist behavior & words.
His female & woman policies, including his hiring, are good to excellent.
But I find your implied claim that he’s not sexist kind of laughable.

I think it’s important to be able, even willing and eager, to support politicians who have good policies whether or not they have character flaws. And I’m more comfy agreeing with Trump critics who have true criticisms. Sexism, unlike XX & XY, is a spectrum & not binary. Depending on your own unspecified definition of sexism, you’re both probably a little sexist yourself.

I know feminists who claim men & women are equal, and any who claim they are different are sexist. By that radical def, I’m also sexist. But the milder treating people differently because of their sex is also something I’m usually a little guilty of, usually treating them better, that is helping them more willingly.

Or, as Steve Martin believes,
a woman should be put on a pedestal
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High enough to look up her skirt.

By: Wendy K Laubach

Wendy K Laubach — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 18:25:31 +0000

The NYT displays the same attitude to conservative blacks: they must not be “really” black. They’re weird black, Uncle Toms. To a lesser extent, we see the same attitude towards conservative women, who are cishet Stepford Wives or unthinking appendages of their conservative daddy-husbands, not fully human. I guess we’re getting there about Latinos as well: “white Hispanics.”

I suppose the same complaint could be made about our lumping liberal white men together as beta soys.

By: Mitchell Strand

Mitchell Strand — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 16:03:48 +0000

Gays who sign on to the leftist agenda and do not put one foot out of line: “Celebrate! Here’s an entire month to be proud of yourself!”

Gays who actually are individuals and form their own opinions about politics, life, etc.: “Every single anti-gay slur in the book.”

By: AppleBetty

AppleBetty — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 15:32:16 +0000

Irwin Chusid wrote,

“The NYT is the Nation’s Foremost College Newspaper.”

Wow!

By: Snow on Pine

Snow on Pine — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 15:21:37 +0000

You mean like this charmer?*

* See images at –https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/slutty-dr-demetre-daskalakis-resigns-as-director-national/

By: JohnTyler

JohnTyler — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 12:52:27 +0000

Leftists are consumed with hatred and contempt for those who do not conform to their belief systems.
There must be some personality disorder or self esteem issues within leftists; they just cannot live and let live. They MUST always be telling -or if given the chance, compelling – others what to think, what to say, how to live.
They are incapable of minding their own business.

It is no accident that the worst mass murderers in world history were all leftists. If given the opportunity, pretty much all leftists would resort to mass exterminations if it would assure them that they would be successful in imposing their world view upon the “unwashed masses.”

The NY Times article re: gays for Trump, suggests that these gays are abnormal, bizarre, disturbed because they support Trump. That was the point the article’s author was really making.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 10:09:23 +0000

Times commenter: “All they care about is power”.
Pot, meet kettle. Kettle, this is pot.

By: Marlene

Marlene — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 06:26:35 +0000

Sdferr @ 3:02, yes Tammy Bruce caught a break. Lol!
She’s smart & cool. I was glad to see Trump select her for his team.