Grope a dope: Trump is on the ropes now

[Dill]

(10-11-2016, 08:50 PM)Matt_Crimson Wrote:  I'm saying based on this video, Trumps actions don't appear to show how obvious it is that he's a sexual assaulter, yet everyone keeps talking about how "obvious" it is.
 Sounds to me like you're just interpreting everything Trump has said to mean the worst possible thing so that you can paint him as a sexual assaulter.

Trump bragged he groped and kissed women. You and others are reconstructing consent based upon absence of other videos and failure to grope a woman as soon as he got off a bus--as if that were "proof" he has not been groping other women as he says. If he doesn't grope one woman on camera that is proof he never does it in less public settings, as he says he does?  

That woman he greeted off the bus, by the way, was not one who worked for him--not someone he had power over.

Not so long ago, police, prosecutors, judges, and jurors often looked similarly on rape and assault cases. The victim was blamed (what was she wearing? why didn't she resist? Why did she wait to report?); the perp was just doing what lots of guys did. That is what is now called "rape culture."

One aspect of the Trump campaign is that, as with racism, it is giving people permission/encouragement to publicly affirm and defend atavistic sexist behaviors many thought we'd left back in the 20th century.