Al Franken still hasn't denied grabbing women

[Orrex]

68. Low-hanging fruit

It allows the OP to claim the moral high ground, and when someone questions them, they can say "why don't you care that women are being sexually assaulted?"

Such a pose allows the poser to scold and harrumph without actually dealing with the much more widely toxic brand of assault practiced by Roy Moore and the idiot racist fuckhead who occupies the White House.

And if the OP (or a kindred spirit) tries to feign outrage and scold me for dismissing one form of assault in preference to another, let me ask this:

If a psychologist had to choose between counseling a young girl who'd been carefully groomed and assaulted long-term by a man in his 30s, versus an adult woman who might have been briefly touched on her clothed buttocks at a county fair ten years ago, which victim do you think would be assigned the higher priority?

Although it is counter-productive to "compare scars," it is nevertheless true that all wounds are not equal. We are idiots if we crucify Franken while Moore slimes his way into the Senate.