RE: Al Franken is latest to be accused of sexual assault
November 18, 2017 at 2:25 pm
(This post was last modified: November 18, 2017 at 2:36 pm by henryp.)
(November 18, 2017 at 7:28 am)alpha male Wrote:(November 17, 2017 at 7:10 pm)wallym Wrote: My assumption would be that Al Franken just thought it was funny. And for most of human history, it would have been considered funny. Plenty still find it funny, I assume.
Sticking your tongue in a woman's mouth against her will is funny?
And regarding the picture, try doing that with a woman who isn't asleep and see how funny it is...
Trying to be disgusting as possible when kissing is a pretty normal SNL gag. That goes doubly so when it's two guys kissing. They even have a recurring bit based solely on the idea called "The Vogelchecks. http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/v...3278?snl=1
As for grabbing someone when they are sleeping, that's inappropriate. But the photo looks like it's more miming grabbing her breasts, and she's wearing a bulletproof vest, so it's not like there's really anything to be 'grabbed'. To me it seems more on par with drawing dicks on someone's face while they are sleeping type activity. Inappropriate, but the purpose isn't sexual assault, it's that we've got a bunch of sexual hangups as a society, so this sort of thing makes people giggle. Or used to, anyways.
Retroactively enforcing new moral norms seems sketchy at best.
(November 18, 2017 at 8:44 am)downbeatplumb Wrote:(November 18, 2017 at 7:28 am)alpha male Wrote: Sticking your tongue in a woman's mouth against her will is funny?
And regarding the picture, try doing that with a woman who isn't asleep and see how funny it is...
They were practicing a stage kiss. It wasn't like he went up to her in the street and stuck his tongue down her throat.
He misjudged it. He has apologised.
Trump on the other hand has confessed when he thought he was off mike but then denies when he knows he's on mike.
This is so disingenuous. He didn't confess anything. It's pretty clear it was hyperbolic. Trump was a billionaire socialite in NYC. He was just talking about how women would make themselves very available sexually to him, and how surreal that was. Most people just don't get it, because most people don't have large numbers of beautiful women trying to 'land them' because of money and prestige.
Experiences with women for average people, compared to the Tiger Woods/Donald Trumps/Kobe Bryants/Mick Jaggers/etc... It's just not the same thing.
