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.

Violent Sexual Predator?

Thinking about the Cosby sentencing just makes you wonder if in fact justice was served.

The conviction is under appeal and sending him immediately to jail instead of allowing bail was probably a result of the high visibility of the case and pressure on the judge to send a message.

He was found guilty and there is little doubt that his behavior was atrocious, but, in most of these cases we are assuming a degree of ignorance on the ladies who decided to join him in his home or hotel room.

He engaged in behavior that at one time could easily be viewed as seduction with women who were interested in cultivating his help.

As I understand the accusations it was never clearly defined that they were expected to sleep with him in exchange for favors, rather he gave them something to relax them, with their knowledge, and then took advantage of them.

It doesn't excuse his behavior but I also have to question the motivations of women alone with a person, who has had a certain reputation since he first got famous, accepting drugs and thinking it was perfectly normal.

Its also interesting that he was deemed a sexually violent predator.  Not sure what the standard is for that but I'm not aware that he ever acted violently in any of the accusations.

What will be the eventual outcome of his appeal and the civil cases is still to be determined.

He was ultimately a comedian and entertainer who was also a womanizer.

I guess the bottom line here is, he should have known and acted better.

He isn't the only one.

Supreme Sexual Predators

Most likely we are going to have another Supreme Court Justice who may have sexually assaulted or harassed someone.

There is really little doubt that Anita Hill was telling the truth but it didn't stop the nomination.

Now the story told by the new victim sounds credible, but of course it might not be.

I would think that it should be explored and evaluated before there is a vote.

However, it probably isn't going to happen, since the nominations are now done on purely political grounds and this justice is a good one for the dontard based on his views about executive privilege.

It was alleged to happen during their teen-age years and while it was behavior that has always been considered wrong, one could consider it awkward teen age behavior, at least we might have at one time.

In today's age we seem to be willing to assume that all the fault lies with the boy or man when of course there has to be a female involved.

In the story, at the age of 15, she went to a unsupervised co-ed beer/pool party.  She new the behavior was not going to be considered good by her parents and in all honesty she was probably a little lucky she wasn't drunker.

Girls/women have the right to not be attacked, it is never acceptable, but they also have some responsibility to engage in safe behavior.

If someone walks alone in a bad neighborhood, display signs of wealth, they don't deserve to be mugged, it just becomes a lot more likely.

Common sense really.