Franken: Accusers 3 and 4.

[moriah]

132. Franken: "I can categorically say that I did not proposition anyone to join me in any bathroom."

From the article.

To be honest, there's enough people on here who have defended ass-grabbing lately that I have to wonder just how many people think copping a feel is paying someone a compliment.

Then again, men have cupped, pinched, or tweaked at women's derrieres ever since they could by the fashion dictates of the time, I'm guessing. In the book "Cheaper By The Dozen", written about a childhood when corsets were probably decreasing in use, there's the Dad joking about preachers pinching rears so much that women "had to eat off mantlepieces".

Is that the reason for older fashions having panniers/bustles -- to protect our asses from unwanted grabbing?

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It looks like Franken's not denying he's ever copped a feel. He probably doesn't remember all the people he takes photos with. Some might have grabbed his first, not necessarily saying these women did. So yeah, Franken might have copped feels. I hope he stops before he gets to GHWB age, because that's even creeepier than a 50-something doing it. I imagine he will.

But he IS denying the "bathroom" allegation. Not even the "I'm sorry you felt harassed backstage even though we remember things differently" with Tweeden, but outright denial.

Given that he's been pretty honest so far, and surely could suggest better places than a bathroom, I personally think that one is BS.