10-11-2016, 04:13 PM
(10-11-2016, 04:01 PM)bfine32 Wrote: This is you just delving further in the assumption game to try to find someone guilty of sexual assault with no proof.
Being a star gives you no authority over anyone perceived or otherwise and I would like to see a precendent where it did based on the reasonable person concept,
There may be cases of those being swooned by star-power, but no authority. Folks just want to use the word authority because the torches were getting low and that makes it sound worse.
Is it possible Trump had power over those that he supposedly touched? Yes. Most likely why they consented to let him do it. But the power was referent, not legitimate; which is authority (percieved or otherwise)
You're just trying to play a semantics game. Authority is having power. If one has referent power, then there is going to be a perceived authority. And, whether we call it referent power, perceived authority, what have you, if someone is using that in an aggressive sexual manner it is coercive no matter what you call it. So the semantic back and forth you're engaging in is really irrelevant.
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