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Fast Walker 52

(7,723 posts)
2. the physical stuff isn't so damning, but the way he talks about her is disgusting
Fri Oct 28, 2016, 11:04 PM
Oct 2016

he clearly treats women as sexual objects to play with.

Grammy23

(5,807 posts)
4. I agree he is a creep but....
Fri Oct 28, 2016, 11:30 PM
Oct 2016

this video doesn't show that. Not sure this helps the case that he is a dog.

LisaM

(27,758 posts)
5. Forget the video - the speech is disturbing.
Fri Oct 28, 2016, 11:31 PM
Oct 2016

It shows how petty and mean he is - and how unfit to govern anything. He can't even govern his own base instincts.

tblue37

(64,979 posts)
8. At the end of the video, after he grabs and kisses her, she says, "Can I sit down now?" Her
Sat Oct 29, 2016, 07:58 AM
Oct 2016

response to his verbally humiliating her and then grabbing and kissing her is exactly the way most women respond in the moment. For some, the fear that they might suffer repercussions on the job if the man has supervisory power forces them to laugh it off as no big deal, all in good fun.

But even when the man doesn't have that sort of direct economic power, he has social power, especially if he has status and wealth, but even if he does not, because a woman who clearly objects, who calls attention to the violation of her personal boundaries, is socially shamed as a humorless b**ch who misread an innocent comment or gesture because she is always looking for an excuse to feel aggrieved and because she vastly overestimates her attractiveness.

Trump's harping on how the People reporter and some other accusers are not attractive enough to have drawn his attention is an example of the second tactic for socially shaming women who object. As for the first one, the mocking of the woman for misinterpreting and overreacting to a harmless comment or "friendly" (or "accidental&quot touch, almost every woman I know has been in that position--either not openly objecting to the assault for fear of being subjected to such social shaming, or actually being subjected to it because she dared to object to being verbally or physically harassed.

And then, because women are in a position where they have to tolerate harassment silently or laugh it off when it occurs, they are called liars when for one reason or another they finally do say something, because their enforced silence at the time of the event is taken as evidence either that it never happened or that they enjoyed it when it happened and are just lying about it now for nefarious and self-serving reasons.

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