2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDonald Trump: Women Have Had Enough
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Hey Donald. I heard about what you said about women. Actually, Ive been hearing what youve said about women. This latest scandal, though, really takes the cake for me. I heard that you felt entitled to grab women by our pussies, because youre a big star. Originally, I was going to contain my outrage to my personal social media sites. Ive been watching this latest debate though, and hearing you refer to your proud conquests of womens bodies as locker room banter, while in the same sentence claiming that you respect women, is truly a new level of contradiction that I thought couldnt be surpassed by you. I want to tell you why I cant stay private about this. I want to tell you why Im angry.
I was #GrabbedByThePussy on a campus bus when I was 19. I remember when he grabbed my face and pulled it towards his without my consent. I remember how he got on top of me and pinned me down when I resisted. I can still feel his vile hands on me, when he quite literally grabbed me by the pussy and didnt let go. I remember this with extraordinary vividness, five years later. And believe me when I say, I relived it once more when I heard your comments. By the way, in case youre wondering, no one on the bus intervened. It was just boys being boys, right? No need to get involved for just a few minutes of action, right?
This is why your locker room banter is not excused as such. Im so tired of this. If this is just your casual talk about women, society doesnt need you, and certainly not as our president. This is the product of your lewd language, and its not uncommon. If you havent heard, 1 in 5 girls will be raped at some point in their lives. Even more will experience other forms of sexual violence. Personally, I have more female friends who have been assaulted than female friends who havent, and every damn time it happens theres at least one (insert expletive here) that blames it on the woman. Its not our fault. Its never our fault. If this is really just how men talk then YOU need to take responsibility for your place in society that labels women as nothing more than pussies you can grab.
You normalize our assaults by joking about it. Your words have weight, whether or not youd like to admit that on national television. Your words are actually what everyone is basing your political competency off, since you have no political experience whatsoever. When you dismiss your admission of sexually assaulting women as locker room talk, and when the host of a TV show laughs with you about it, you make it okay for predators (such as yourself) to actually commit these crimes. If you have any question about whether or not thats true, just ask my assailant. Im sure he didnt think it was a huge deal to grab my pussy either, being that he did so in the front of a well-lit bus without interruption. I wonder if he joked about it with his friends when they got home, since they all watched him molest me without protest. If you were there, I wonder if you would have laughed with him too, as you laughed with Billy Bush about the women youve grabbed. After all, my assailant followed your instructions almost perfectly. He didnt even have to be a big star to get away with it, either.
More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mariel-didato/donald-trump-women-have-had-enough_b_12423954.html?utm_hp_ref=rape-culture
Arkansas Granny
(31,517 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)As opening statement for the next debate.
BlueWarrior
(94 posts)TryLogic
(1,723 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Trump normalizes sexual assault, racism, Islamophobia and general hatred with his words and actions. No dog whistles for Trump, no coded words. Just raw bigotry.
sheshe2
(83,771 posts)And it is horrifying.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Those people are deplorable, but not in my opinion irredeemable.
Maru Kitteh
(28,340 posts)sheshe2
(83,771 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,340 posts)And Trump? He's about to
sheshe2
(83,771 posts)Thanks
Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)I'm getting very very angry.
sheshe2
(83,771 posts)For that reason, I can't stop.
ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)Frequent breaks are mandatory!!
sheshe2
(83,771 posts)calimary
(81,267 posts)Nothing that bad ever happened to me, for which I am GRATEFUL AS ALL-GET-OUT! I was never grabbed "south of the equator," so to speak. But I've been grabbed. And it was demeaning and frightening and infuriating at the same time! I am grateful I have never experienced the horrific attacks many other women HAVE. My experiences were a great deal more mild.
I'm glad to see that Chris Hayes just promo'd an appearance on tonight's show, by Lisa Bloom, the attorney who wrote this about a Trump rape case. A Trump UNDER-AGE rape case.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-bloom/why-the-new-child-rape-ca_b_10619944.html
EXCELLENT.
And it makes me feel tremendously gratified to see the threads here about how Gloria Allred's phone is ringing. I hope those women are willing to come forward!
ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)enough of your sexist, racist BS
enough of your grotesque orange head and its vile thoughts
enough of your ugly, hateful rhetoric
enough of your lies and threats
enough of your bullying
ENOUGH ENOUGH ENOUGH
He looks so angry, so violent in that photo-- makes my skin crawl
lupinella
(365 posts)Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)and take his GOP motherfucker allies with him.