Of his own. What is your job . He redefines an old role for a new generation. Theres this toxicity, this masculine idea of what a man is. A father. I really wanted a reminder of whats important to me. Who with the Vice President is marking many firsts. This is very emotional to be able to do this. While still trying to make time for each other. Were not each others chief of staff. Were husband and wife. Its the opportunity of a lifetime for the former Entertainment Lawyer who gave up his job to support his wife. Men need to support women. In this series we talked to people in politics and pop culture and find out what its like to be them. Now being the second gentleman. Whats it like to be the First Second Gentleman . Im only the First Second Gentleman because the country elected the first woman Vice President. So i look at it really mostly in that lens. Im here because im her husband. Im here to support her. So help me god. But hes also rewriting unspoken rules and roadmaps largely de
To the administration. so it hasn t been a lot of time for the ceremonial part. maybe there will be moving forward. was there any part of you that thought well, i better do the ceremonial stuff because that s what a woman would do? well, i don t want to genderrize it. i think we re a married couple and we do a lot of these things together. so if there s things that we need to pick out or decorations or if we re having an event and i ll give my input, but it s how we are as a typical married couple, what we would do in our other life. we look at things together. we pick it out and we re both busy and we move on. so i m not trying to make it where this is my job. what is your job? first and foremost, it s to support her. we work in an office called office of the vice president and in office that you re