Confirmed bachelor

[CountDeMoney]

I wonder how an openly polyamorous politician or celebrity would be seen.

Trump seems to be doing pretty well.

Marriages, affairs, divorces and more marriages are fine.  Opting out of them is not.

[LaCroix]

suspicion of someone's sexuality might be part of it, but for many there's probably a "oh, he must be weird" factor going on. it's considered odd to not even have had a girlfriend.

[Martinus]

I wonder how an openly polyamorous politician or celebrity would be seen.

We had one running for the mayor of Warsaw from the Greens. She got 3%.

Then again, the most powerful man in Poland right now is a confirmed bachelor.

[garbon]

Right? All the time I'm like is he a pedophile or is he just gay.

"Well, he cares about how he looks, but not enough to be thin...so he must just be an asshole."

Maybe he's a bear or a chub.

[Sheilbh]

I wonder how an openly polyamorous politician or celebrity would be seen.

For the monster they clearly are?

I genuinely just thought confirmed bachelor was code for gay, like 'close to his mother' or for the alcoholics 'tired and emotional'.

[Martinus]

Right? All the time I'm like is he a pedophile or is he just gay.

"Well, he cares about how he looks, but not enough to be thin...so he must just be an asshole."

Maybe he's a bear or a chub.

Gays can be overweight without being a bear or a chub. It's just the question of money.

[Martinus]

I wonder how an openly polyamorous politician or celebrity would be seen.

For the monster they clearly are?

I genuinely just thought confirmed bachelor was code for gay, like 'close to his mother' or for the alcoholics 'tired and emotional'.

I thought so too.

[CountDeMoney]

If Ed Anger had been single in the late '70s...

http://youtu.be/bQZ-xQ329lA

[Ed Anger]

If Ed Anger had been single in the late '70s...

http://youtu.be/bQZ-xQ329lA

[jimmy olsen]

So in Canadian politics, Stephen Harper stood down as leader, and there's a leadership race going on.

One of Harper's most high-profile ministers, perhaps the most high profile after Peter MacKay resigned a few years ago, was a guy named Jason Kenney.  Very capable minister, took all the toughest portfolios and did well.  Even those who didn't like him (he's a staunch catholic pro-life) respected him.

But everyone figured he had precisely zero percent chance at taking the leadership.  Partially because he'd be yet another leader from Calgary (Harper, and before that, Manning).  But mostly because, you guessed it, he's a "confirmed bachelor".  No wife, no girlfriend, ever.

So now he's running to try and become leader of the Alberta PCs.  We'll see how it goes.

I had to do a double take because I read that as One of Harper's most high-profile mistresses at first!