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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhen I was 17, in a locker room, I heard and said similar things to Trump.
Not proud of it, but I was a kid.
Then I grew up. This is insane. This guy is an insecure teenager. With the nuclear codes? Please, America. He shouldn't win a single state.
underpants
(182,823 posts)We have a golf/getaway weekend once a year. Good times. None of us could get away with that without everyone thinking it was more than a bit much.
Foggyhill
(1,060 posts)I was on the track team, swim team in college and high school. Heard some post conquest boasting, some bitching about a girl not putting out and a lot of fantasy talked aloud
But here he says matter of fact he assaults women and he can do it because he's a celebrity
underpants
(182,823 posts)Locker room stuff - even in the Army (close) but not that bad.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,627 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)I'd bet you had only male friends and only spent time with males. "Locker room" is no excuse.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)in actual locker room. Every locker I've ever been in has been a businesslike affair; get changed, whatever.
Two, on the topic of discussing sexual activities with buddies back in my wild oat-sowing youth; I felt that people who had the need to go on about that stuff were overcompensating for something, or insecure.
If you have a rich and satisfying sex life, you don't generally need to advertise it much...but beyond that, I can't imagine saying or hearing shit like "I **** them in the ******" - how the fuck is that anything like something to 'brag' about?
Dude, you're not just admitting that you have to surprise someone with an unexpected crotch grab to get your jollies, you're also admitting to sexual assault. Full stop, end of story.
Look. If women were throwing themselves at you and you weren't a filthy rich "star", then okay, maybe you'd have something to brag about (yes, assuming everyone has the emotional age of about 17, because no one more mature would even care)... but you can't even get some time with them on that basis, you have to grope them.
What a piece of work is "The Donald". Ewwwww.
It's called maturity.
Gman
(24,780 posts)Then we grew up
CRF450
(2,244 posts)Last edited Fri Oct 7, 2016, 09:52 PM - Edit history (1)
Claiming that as a star he can grope women, a lot of what was in that conversation is just normal guy talk. Yes, not things you want to be caught saying when running for the white house, but this is how most private guy talk is, just not on the predatory level that Trump has.
ohnoyoudidnt
(1,858 posts)There are things I thought and said in my late teens that I am too embarrassed to even repeat. I have grown. I can see Trump for how dangerous can be.
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)Have selective memories, and have "forgotten" what they were like "back then". Or simply refuse to admit because they are ashamed.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)And that is the difference.
Raine
(30,540 posts)anyone else. Most everyone has said or done things that they're now ashamed of. Trump ... never is ashamed or embarrassed and never will be.