What Biden gets wrong about women’s rights

If you’ve spent any time on Twitter over the past few years you will almost certainly have met the ‘woke toddler’. This is where progressive parents share the super cute and achingly right-on insights of their tiny charges.

Over time, potentially genuine anecdotes have given way to up-front political commentary. A classic of the kind might be the days-old baby who asks granny to name ‘one genuine economic benefit of Brexit’. With more people in on the joke, these tweets slowly died a death. So it was a surprise to see President Biden attempt to revive the genre this week by tweeting his response to ‘Charlotte’.

To be fair to Biden, his ‘woke toddler’ had gone to some trouble. This was no mere anecdote but an actual letter. With scrawling handwriting and cute spelling errors, Charlotte wrote:

Dear Presitent Biden: I just wanted to tell something not fair to ladies. Men are getting more money then girls.