If you pay attention to the more lunatic strands of US politics you may have come across the name Harry Sisson. Mr Sisson has garnered a reputation, especially during the recent US Presidential Election, of being a full on cheerleader for the Democrat Party. He has been seen by some as a ‘wunderkind’ of the Left, a supporter of women’s rights and has even met former US President Joe Biden whom he enthusiastically supported against Donald Trump. Mr Sisson has amassed a vast social media following mostly on the Chinese run platform Tik Tok.
He looks for all the world to be a squeaky clean US leftist and supports many of the Left’s talking points about the economy, abortion and LGBT stuff. But if the results of an investigation by a citizen journalist Sarah Fields are to be believed he’s not all that squeaky clean. In fact he’s being accused of being in relationships with eleven different women many of whom he’d told were in an exclusive relationship with him. He’s also being accused of manipulating many of the women who’ve made complaints into sending Sisson explicit pictures of themselves.
Here’s part of what Ms Fields has said:
Harry Sisson convinced 11 different women that 'he had no roster' and 'respected them for more than their bodies' while persuading them to send explicit photos of themselves through Snapchat, including one from a domestic abuse survivor. When the women discovered each other one by one, he called them all insane and attempted to coerce one of them into telling the public that the photos were 'fake.' A Request to the Reader - Set political differences to the side. I believe both sides of the aisle can agree that this is unacceptable behavior from a man-child with collectively over 2 million followers.
Several of the women involved have made their stances public, but the videos are not receiving much traction. While Harry Sisson continues to collect millions of views for his videos claiming that he is a supporter of women and a champion for women’s rights.
You can read the rest of Ms Fields’s excellent bit of investigative journalism on her X post which can be found HERE.
Lots of younger people have and have had complex relationship patterns and I think if many of us are honest and look back at our own lives we’ll find that not all of our own relationships with romantic partners have been of the squeaky clean fairy tale kind. Sometimes it’s been one person in the relationship’s fault and sometimes it’s been the fault of others or both partners in the relationship. We are human, we screw up occasionally. However what gets me with the Sisson case is the hypocrisy of Sisson. He gives it all the big noise about how he supports women and women’s rights but it’s clear that to a large extent that this is all an act from Mr Sisson.
The Sisson case does illustrate what the You Tuber ‘Liberal Hivemind’ calls ‘the abundant hyopcrisy of the Left’ where leftist activists say one thing but do something completely different or where the leftist’s person’s stated morals don’t match their conduct. I’ve nothing against a person having more than one partner if that’s what they choose but it’s utterly immoral in my view for these partners to be unaware of either each other or the situation they are in. What Mr Sisson is doing is not any form of ethical non-monogamy it’s cheating on all the women involved and what’s worse it’s cheating with what looks like a heavy dose of alleged manipulation of the women that Mr Sisson is involved with.
Even putting aside political considerations and looking at what Mr Sisson has alleged to have done objectively, his conduct really does not look good. I would have more sympathy for Mr Sisson if he had just been in the situation where because he was suddenly internet famous and therefore found himself surrounded by willing female admirers and went for it. I might have done the same at his age if I’d been in such a position. But that’s not the case here. He became famous and then used his fame to not just pick up women for one night stands but to allegedly manipulate women into thinking that they were entering into a long term sexually exclusive relationship with him.
Mr Sisson seems to be the sort of person who is not to be trusted in relationships and that raises the question can he also not be trusted with other things, political things for example, as well? My guess is that Mr Sisson will try to brazen this storm out in order to keep up his political grift which has brought him fame and recognition, but how long he can do this before his conduct with women negatively impacts on the public’s view of him is doubtful. Mr Sisson’s ‘adventures in cheating’ might I believe not go away as quickly as he might like.