Sex Abuser

There is no doubt or at least there shouldn't be that our current President was lecherous and unfaithful most of his life.

He clearly cheated on his wives multiple times and we have audio and visual proof that he was OK with abusing his position as a wealthy man to visually and physically abuse women.

Certainly much of it was consensual and while despicable its within most codes of conduct, unless you are of course particularly religious.

However, there is not real doubt that he abused women, many women, many times.

I think even his supporters are aware of that, and in a perverted way, many of his most ardent supporters admire that he did it and got away with it.

Much of his appeal is to the outliers in what is considered by the majority as civilized society but considered by them the land of political correctness.

They yearn for the days of white male dominance where the old boys club winked at such behavior as long as you didn't step over the line of leaving physical evidence of your behavior.

Obnoxious behavior, date rape, inappropriate comments and even physical touching was just the boys being boys.

The challenge was to see how much you could get away with.  This was immortalized in many old movies where a slap on the face for unwelcome advances was, well cute.

Women were expected to protect themselves and if they wore overly provocative clothes or went to a man's room, well what did they expect?

The latest accuser of the president has some questions to answer, but we know he knew her and I think everybody knows he probably did it.

It fits into the credo he spelled out in the Access Hollywood tape.  Still, some of his supporters are probably high fiving his ability to get away with it.

Another notch in his belt so to speak.

Women and Men

Interactions between men and women have been going on since there have been men and women.  Its demonstrated by the fact that we are still here as a species.

I don't know though if at any time the two groups actually understood each other.

It's been something that has been written about since ancient times although because of the nature of those times most of the writings relate to how women are incomprehensible to men.

It doesn't seem like that should be the case, but it pretty much is.

To some extent no one knows what anyone else is actually thinking, but with other men I feel fairly confident that I have an idea.

This is largely because they react in fairly predictable ways, at least to me.

Women on the other hand tend to be simply unpredictable.

I don't know if women have the same issue, it seems like they understand men better than men understand women, but maybe they don't.

Somehow the two groups have managed to procreate, and rather profusely.

However this is the area that seems to be the most perplexing.

I remember a skit by Jerry Seinfeld in which he posits the question as to why men resort to honking or calling out to pretty strangers and he answers his own question with because that's the best we have come up with.  While a joke it comes close to the truth.

Some of the things coming out are clearly wrong, others not so much, at least to my view, which is a male one.

The problem is that many of these accusations include the fact that a person in power in some ways imposed their will on another person.  Some of these accusations are based on obvious measurable things but some are based on people's perceptions.

The "me too" movement has uncovered that a majority of American women have felt harassed or abused at least once in their lifetimes.  Maybe that honking and calling out has gone too far.

However, we don't have anything better.  It's perplexing.