Insecure men more likely to support aggressive politics and to have voted for Trump

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Cuddles, Feb 2, 2021.

  1. Good1

    Good1



    https://www.thecut.com/2019/03/an-awkward-kiss-changed-how-i-saw-joe-biden.html

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    ...After the event, I told a few of my staff what happened. We all talked about the inexplicable weirdness of what he did, but I didn’t plan on telling anyone else. I didn’t have the language or the outlet to talk about what happened. Who do you tell? What do you say? Is it enough of a transgression if a man touches and kisses you without consent, but doesn’t rise to the level of what most people consider sexual assault? I did what most women do, and moved on with my life and my work.

    Time passed and pictures started to surface of Vice-President Biden getting uncomfortably close with women and young girls. Biden nuzzling the neck of the Defense secretary’s wife; Biden kissing a senator’s wife on the lips; Biden whispering in women’s ears; Biden snuggling female constituents. I saw obvious discomfort in the women’s faces, and Biden, I’m sure, never thought twice about how it made them feel. I knew I couldn’t say anything publicly about what those pictures surfaced for me; my anger and my resentment grew.

    Had I never seen those pictures, I may have been able to give Biden the benefit of the doubt. Had there not been multiple articles written over the years about the exact same thing — calling his creepy behavior an “open secret” — perhaps it would feel less offensive. And yet despite the steady stream of pictures and the occasional article, Biden retained his title of America’s Favorite Uncle. On occasion that title was downgraded to America’s Creepy Uncle but that in and of itself implied a certain level of acceptance. After all, how many families just tolerate or keep their young children away from the creepy uncle without ever acknowledging that there should be zero tolerance for a man who persistently invades others’ personal space and makes people feel uneasy and gross? In this case, it shows a lack of empathy for the women and young girls whose space he is invading, and ignores the power imbalance that exists between Biden and the women he chooses to get cozy with.

    For years I feared my experience would be dismissed. Biden will be Biden. Boys will be boys. I worried about the doubts, the threats, the insults, and the minimization. “It’s not that big of a deal. He touched her, so what?” The immediate passing of judgement and the questioning of motives. “Why now? Why so long after? She just wants attention.” Or: “It’s politically motivated.” I would be lying if I said I didn’t carefully consider all of this before deciding to speak. But hearing Biden’s potential candidacy for president discussed without much talk about his troubling past as it relates to women became too much to keep bottled up any longer."
     
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    #61     Feb 8, 2021
  2. Ricter

    Ricter

    #62     Feb 8, 2021
  3. Good1

    Good1

    Wait, are you implying that Biden's mostly sneek-up-from-behind advances are ok because they establish him as heterosexual?
     
    #63     Feb 8, 2021
  4. Ricter

    Ricter

    I'm saying you're full of shit. Out loud, no implying.
     
    #64     Feb 8, 2021
  5. Good1

    Good1

    You posted a picture of Trump touching a supreme court nominee and claimed (didnt even imply) fagotry.

    You claim this picture is the sexual equivalency of Biden pics touching women and girls, only, in the Biden pics it establishes heterosexuality.

    Im asking you again, is it ok for Biden because it establishes his sexual preferences as hetero?
     
    #65     Feb 8, 2021
  6. Ricter

    Ricter

    He's infamous for it.
     
    #66     Feb 8, 2021
  7. The 26 women who have accused Trump of sexual misconduct

    https://www.businessinsider.com/women-accused-trump-sexual-misconduct-list-2017-12




      • At least 26 women have accused President Donald Trump of sexual misconduct since the 1970s.
      • Renewed attention was brought to the allegations amid the #MeToo movement and a national conversation concerning sexual misconduct.
      • Trump has repeatedly denied the accusations, denouncing his accusers as "liars."
      • In June 2019, columnist E. Jean Carroll accused President Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her by forcing his penis inside her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-1990s.
      • And in September 2020, model Amy Dorris said that in 1997 Trump forcibly kissed her, groped her all over her body, and gripped her tightly so she couldn't get away.
    At least 26 women accused President Donald Trump of sexual misconduct, including assault, since the 1970s.

    A deluge of women made their accusations public following the October 2016 publication of the "Access Hollywood" tape, in which Trump was heard boasting about grabbing women's genitals in 2005. Some of Trump's accusers made their stories public months before the tape's release, and still others came forward in the months following.

    Trump has broadly dismissed the allegations, which include harassment, groping, and rape, as "fabricated" and politically motivated accounts pushed by the media and his political opponents. In 2016, he promised to sue all of his accusers. In some cases, Trump and his lawyers have suggested he couldn't have engaged in the alleged behavior with certain women because he wasn't physically attracted to them.

    "Every woman lied when they came forward to hurt my campaign," the Republican presidential nominee said during a 2016 rally. "Total fabrication. The events never happened. Never. All of these liars will be sued after the election is over."

    The president said these "false allegations" against him were made by "women who got paid a lot of money to make up stories about me." And then alleged that the "mainstream media" refused to report evidence that the accusations were made up.

    Trump has not yet made good on his promise to sue any of the women — although two women have sued him – and the White House says that Trump's election proves the American people don't consider the allegations disqualifying.

    "The people of this country, at a decisive election, supported President Trump, and we feel like these allegations have been answered through that process," then-White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters in December 2017, after several of the president's accusers appeared on national television to rehash their allegations.

    But despite Trump's denials, 50% of voters — 59% of women and 41% of men — surveyed in a December 2017 Quinnipiac poll think the president should resign as a result of the sexual misconduct allegations against him. Several Democratic lawmakers have previously called on Trump to resign over the accusations.

    One accuser, Samantha Holvey, who spoke out in 2016 about her experience with Trump as a Miss USA pageant contestant, said in 2017 that while Trump's election was painful, she and others see the #MeToo movement as an opportunity to "try round two."

    "We're private citizens, and for us to put ourselves out there to try and show America who this man is and especially how he views women, and for them to say 'meh, we don't care' — it hurts," Holvey said on NBC News' "Megyn Kelly Today" in December 2017. "And so now it's just like, all right, let's try round two. The environment's different. Let's try again."

    Go to the link above for a list of the allegations, in chronological order, made by the 26 women named.

     
    #67     Feb 8, 2021
  8. Good1

    Good1

    So Biden's brand of touching is ok because Trump"s brand of touching is ok?

    Or,

    Biden's brand is ok because it establishes heterosexual preferences, while Trump's brand of touching is not ok because it establishes faggotry?

    What, exactly, are you saying?

    Stop hiding behind implications and start standing up like a man and state your claims clearly.
     
    #68     Feb 8, 2021
  9. Good1

    Good1

    Are you saying Biden"s history of touching is ok because Trump's history of touching has not been ok?

    Stop standing in front of Biden like a little girl in a skirt and clearly state whether or not his brand of touching has been appropriate or not!
     
    #69     Feb 8, 2021
  10. Ricter

    Ricter

    Yawn.
     
    #70     Feb 8, 2021