12-12-2017, 11:20 PM
(12-12-2017, 10:06 PM)Maggot Wrote: Welcome to the politicizing of gender. A Miss U.S.A. contender saying Trump OOgled her and a Clinton operative saying he invited her up to 1st class in order to grop and fondle her as others watched. I'm not sure what the other one did but I hope they come up with better evidence of what Trump did a very long time before he was President in order for it not to look like a politically motivated smear campaign.
Americans are kinda numb but not THAT numb.
That gender-politicization welcome mat you're just now seeing and wiping your feet on is almost 100 years old Maggot.
Women had to fight for our rights to vote for our political leaders; suffrage was a gender-centric political movement. Equal rights for the female gender has long been a political cause. At this particular moment, women are pushing back against being sexually harassed on-the-job and off-the job. A very good thing, as far as I 'm concerned.
Politically, I can understand and respect women coming forward to speak out when they're watching some dipshit snake oil salesman and/or holy roller (to borrow Sal's term) who sexually harassed/abused them rising to power based on self-proclaimed godliness, family values, and bullshit proclamations like "nobody respects women more than I do".
Politicians who disrespect and minimize women in private can't and shouldn't be blindly trusted to respect the input and the best interests of the women they'll be representing when they get into office.
Now that the patriarchal society-imposed gag has been torn off, women are sharing their experiences and pushing back. That doesn't make it a smear campaign or an attack by women against men.
Rather, it's about women saying enough is enough and calling that bullshit out. You have no idea how it feels to be on the receiving end; to be sexually harassed by some asshole who thinks he's entitled, especially in the workplace.
When there are a lot of accusers, there might be some who are more bandwagon-jumpers than anything else. That doesn't make all the accusers liars, nor does it make the accused any more or less innocent or guilty.
This American believes that Trump (like Roy Moore) did what most of the women say he did. I think that because I heard him confess and brag about that kind of behavior on tape more than once, and because I've listened to the women. And, I'm not THAT numb.
Anyway, "The Patriarchy" isn't the best way or the only way and has proven to be less-than-ideal, in my opinion. Times are changing fast in that regard -- for the better, in my opinion. But some men will inevitably see progress towards equal gender rights and respect as some kind of attack or smear on them because they still think they're gender-entitled to dominate and lead. We're used to that.