Recalibrating expectations of acceptable decorum

The gulf between her new account and the breathless reaction to the 2015 image points to the difficulty of recalibrating expectations of acceptable decorum in the #MeToo era, when virality is easily mistaken for certainty.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/04/01/biden-grasped-cabinet-officials-wife-photo-went-viral-now-she-says-everyone-had-it-wrong

That's odd, I am more likely to mistake virality for "enormously enhancing of my view of myself as a right-thinking person" and "most unlikely to be true as stated".

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