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In reply to the discussion: Here's a list of people Tara Reade has accused of assault or harassment. [View all]appleannie1
(5,067 posts)I know I have walked off a job in the middle of the day for just that. To this day, women deal with it.
There is a male voter at the polling place where I have worked that we hated to see come in to vote. He always chose a time when it would not be busy. He always felt the need to tell us dirty jokes. It did not matter to him that no one laughed and we all tended to get busy doing something else and pointedly ignored him. Now, I can find an off color joke funny but you could tell that his motive was not to make us laugh, it was to make us uncomfortable. That is a form of sexual assault.
There are also men that put their hands on people. With some men, it is just women. With other men it is everyone. Joe Biden fits in the everyone category. When he is talking to someone, he puts his hand on an arm or his arm around a shoulder or something. I really don't think it is sexual. But never having been on the receiving end, I really can't judge.
All I know is I doubt he has ever raped a 13 year old or stuck his hand up the skirt of a fellow passenger on a plane, or stuck his tongue down some unwilling women's throat while his hand is in her underwear and her back pinned against a wall. Nor has he ever bragged about assaulting women like it is something he should get an award for doing. So for me, Biden would be the more moral of the two choices.