Tuesday, October 11, 2016

just grab them by the pussy


The expression on his face in this picture says all you need to know about Trump and his opinion of women in general and the one that is wiping the floor with him in particular.


Just as racism increased when a black man ran for and won the highest electoral office in the country not once but twice, now sexism and misogyny are on the rise and it will only get worse. It's already been the standard that women in positions of power are judged on their looks, their clothing, described as shrill when they speak with emphasis or ineffective if they keep their voices down, they are still treated as interlopers in the boy's club and the closer Hillary Clinton gets to winning the presidency the worse the abuse Hillary and all women will have to endure.

Rapists getting off without punishment because it would ruin their lives wasn't enough. Now we are expected to accept that it's acceptable for any man to just walk up and grab a woman by the pussy. The Republican candidate for President of the United States says it's no big deal, just one of those things. The Republican candidate for President of the United States promotes sexual assault and the women and men in this country are supposed to think that it's no big deal, just one of those things.

That this man is a sexist and misogynist has been clear from the beginning. He regularly insults women over their looks, weight, temperament. He regularly tells his managers to fire any women that aren't attractive enough. He boasted about trying to have sex with a married woman (who spurned him) while married himself. He regularly commits adultery, he would regularly walk into the women's dressing rooms unannounced and uninvited during his TV shows and Miss Universe pageants, he doesn't mind men referring to his daughter as 'a piece of ass', he would even fuck his own daughter if he thought he could get away with it. And now out of his own mouth we learn that he thinks sexual assault is just one of those things that women 'let' you do.

No, Donald, women don't 'let' you do it.

I've been groped. I was 18 in New Orleans for Mardi Gras moving through a crowd when some anonymous man reached out and grabbed me by the vagina and then was gone. It was one of the more shocking things that has happened to me. It wasn't fun, I didn't like it, and I didn't 'let' him do it. I wonder how male predators would feel if women were in the habit of grabbing men's penises when they walked by. Would they take it as an invitation or would they be shocked by the intrusion, by the uninvited sexual assault.

I watched a short video of two women who support Trump after the first debate when he went off on the Miss Universe because she gained weight after the pageant. “He's right”, they said, “she did gain a lot of weight”. And “he shouldn't even be dealing with this”. And “a god has finally come down to help us”. Yeah, one of them really said that. These women are totally clueless and they are going to vote for him. Do they not understand that Trump, if asked about these women, would call them 'fat, disgusting, ugly really', that he has never ever in his life ever helped anyone but himself.

I've already posted about why Trump is totally unqualified to be president of this country so I'm not going to go into all that again. The fact that so many people in the country still support him, even after the revelation that he thinks sexual assault is just boys being boys and us women shouldn't be getting our panties in a twist, leaves me speechless.

If Trump, a man with no respect for the constitution or the rule of law, who says he will order Hillary Clinton imprisoned if elected because that's what dictators do, if this man gets elected, he will be our Nero, fiddling, or diddling, while the country burns and a good 30% of the population will be cheering him on.

And that is fucked up.




13 comments:

  1. As you wrote, the line about his daughter being a "good piece of ass" was the worst thing I have ever heard in my life. I couldn't believe what I was reading and then I listened to the tape. Trump speaking to the sleazebag Howard Stern about the size of his daughter, Ivanka's breasts and Stern asked him if they were real and he answered yes. Then, that creep said to Trump that she was a good piece of ass, and Trump said, "yeah". What father would get into a conversation about his daughter with a degenerate like Stern and not beat him up. Instead, he sounded like he enjoyed it. How could anyone support a sicko like Trump? How could Ivanka stand in the same room as him?

    I'm With Her.

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  2. I read a little quip: What chance does Trump have of being elected? The responder said, with a straight face, well, he's one of your two choices. The best spit coffee on the keyboard moment I've had in a long time. Pigs still don't fly, no matter how fat they are.

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  3. Open mouth and keep inserting foot must be his idea of fun.Did you see the duet film of the two of them?

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  4. Hear, hear, Ellen. This and all the posts you've been doing here and on Facebook are so right on. You've been speaking all the words that I think but couldn't have said them as well. Thanks for all your work.

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  5. I share your outrage, Ellen. His behavior has already told us that Trump is a waste of oxygen, a dangerous waste. But every time I see a woman defending this monster, I can't understand it. I've asked myself all kinds of questions when it comes to this. Are they that naive? That stupid? That freaking blind? Are they being paid? I just don't get it. And yes, it is fucked up. All of it.

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  6. Amen, Ellen. I spend way too much time following the crap online. The Washington Post, NYT, several other new sources. There is so much anti-Trump on there, that I get some hope that this will all be over and he will be out. Then, I put on the local DFW news. A whole different story! Trump is some kind of god who flew in on his plane and folks just threw their money at him. Makes me absolutely ill to see the jerks who are popping off about how they are going to back him all the way. Mostly women, too. You got it right. Your last sentence. Thanks for saying what I think!

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  7. I'm heartened that so many here are like minded. When I posted about this, two and a half good blogging friends came out swinging against Hillary. I wanted to pick apart their reasoning, which comes straight from FOX news, are lies and misrepresentations, but I chose not to comment. It was the same tactic that Trump uses; shift the blame to Hilllary and Bill. Bill isn't running. Why do they his supporters do that? Because they can't defend the man and what comes out of his mouth as opposed to conspiracy theories, lies and their own bias. I sometimes wonder if men and women in the US can't stand the fact that a woman will become President.

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  8. I am proud to say I recognized Trump.as.a.schmuck in 1987. My opinion remains unchanged.

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