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🧩 BND Motif Index · M1567

Dirty old man

A powerful man is said to keep remarking in public on women's bodies, their weight, their figures, their looks, and each remark is read not as charm or banter but as who he is: a creep.

🎭 ArchetypesπŸ—‚οΈ Politician ArchetypesπŸ—‚οΈ Sex and genderπŸ—‚οΈ Judged by looks

⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.

A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.

πŸͺœ Its family

what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it

πŸͺœ rests on 🧩 Creepy weirdo

πŸŽ™οΈ Who it came up with

the shows we follow where its claims came up (2 left-leaning, 1 center, 0 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard

  1. βš–οΈ Left, Right & Center 1 claim
  2. 🫏 The Kyle Kulinski Show 1 claim
  3. 🫏 The MeidasTouch Podcast 1 claim

"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.

πŸ—£οΈ In so many words

the words that carry it

πŸ’¬ the tellers' own words: β€œDonald Trump has this narrative of being this guy who does objectify the human body.” β€œGeorge W. Bush's default position wasn't creep.” β€œHe made a bunch of horrible, misogynistic, and disgusting comments”

🧢 Its claims

what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)

Told on the left 1

claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one

  • 2026-11-03 β€œDonald Trump is making inappropriate comments about a female candidate's body.” 3

Told on the right 0

claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one

πŸ¦— No claim heard only on the right so far.

M1567 Β· first seen 2026-11-03 Β· last 2026-10-14 Β· what this is Β· how the index works