Woman In Infamous Creepy Biden Picture Speaks Out

I feel like at this point, everyone’s seen this picture:

It’s especially noteworthy right now, as it basically illustrates exactly what former Nevada candidate, Lucy Flores, explained happened to her. She pointed out that it wasn’t “sexual abuse,” but that it did make her very uncomfortable, which is unbecoming of a Presidential candidate. Biden gets all up behind women and gets handsy and sniffy. It’s creepy.

Now the woman in the picture is speaking out – and she’s standing up for the former Vice President.

According to Fox News:

The photographs taken during the swearing-in of then-Defense Secretary Ash Carter in 2015 that showed Vice President Joe Biden standing behind the ex-cabinet member’s wife with two hands on her shoulders and– at times– his nose nuzzled against her hair, were misleading and “extracted from what was a longer moment between close friends,” Stephanie Carter said in a post on Medium.

I mean… the man clearly nuzzles hair with his nose. She’s apparently ok with it, and Lucy Flores was clearly not.

The photographs from the Feb. 17, 2015 ceremony made their way back into the public eye in recent days after recent allegations against Biden. Nevada’s Democratic lieutenant governor candidate Lucy Flores alleged in an article Friday that the former vice president “plant[ed] a big slow kiss” on the back of her head.

Bill Russo, a spokesman for Biden, told the Associated Press that the former vice president doesn’t remember kissing Flores.

“In my many years on the campaign trail and in public life, I have offered countless handshakes, hugs, expressions of affection, support and comfort,” Biden said in his own statement Sunday. “And not once — never — did I believe I acted inappropriately. If it is suggested I did so, I will listen respectfully. But it was never my intention.”

Anyway, Stephanie doesn’t want people to use her as an example of Biden’s creepiness:

Carter said she was disappointed that the photograph was misused. When she met with the Bidens again, she “told them I felt awful that after he had generously taken time out of his day to swear in an old friend, his attempt to support me had become a joke and even more — supposed proof positive that he didn’t understand how to respect women.”

“I won’t pretend that this will be the last of that picture, but it will be the last of other people speaking for me,” she wrote.

Fair enough.

Women are entitled to feel however they want about some dude nuzzling their hair. If Stephanie didn’t have a problem with it, then so be it.