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holding the woman more accountable than the action of the man.
This seems to be just one more barrier for women in politics. 
"But I want to say something else, too. Over the last few months, all of us—including and especially men who respect women—have been forced to take a good, hard look at our own actions and think (perhaps, shamefully, for the first time) about how those actions have affected women.
"For instance, that picture. I don't know what was in my head when I took that picture, and it doesn't matter. There's no excuse. I look at it now and I feel disgusted with myself. It isn't funny. It's completely inappropriate. It's obvious how Leeann would feel violated by that picture. And, what's more, I can see how millions of other women would feel violated by it—women who have had similar experiences in their own lives, women who fear having those experiences, women who look up to me, women who have counted on me.
"Coming from the world of comedy, I've told and written a lot of jokes that I once thought were funny but later came to realize were just plain offensive. But the intentions behind my actions aren't the point at all. It's the impact these jokes had on others that matters. And I'm sorry it's taken so long to come to terms with that.
I guess we can't say the woman in the picture "was asking for it" when she's wearing a flak jacket, helmet and fatigues - but saying "she's a RWNJ" is pretty much the same thing, isn't it?
I'll take Al Franken's word for it he was responsible for his own actions. And responsible for his own resignation.
Al Franken was railroaded by the poster's hero. An important vote was lost because the people who did this to him would not let the process for violations like the ones alleged to continue. Just ran him out of town on a rail. Fuck that.
Democrat jealous of another Democrat is more like it. 
They often appear together, and share the same "voice" -- brief, blunt, reflexive, both gliding up and down their OPs, picking out the dissenters, and then wearing them down with repetitive one-sentence questions, etc. It's almost like they're the same person.
"overreacted" She did not want the competition she would have lost to. Period. That's the real deal, the elephant in our room.
Just don’t feel warm and cozy about her. Eck!
Every time they are posted with the intent (we can only assume) of winning converts for KG and it ends up being the same rejection of her every single time. It’s like Charlie Brown and Lucy with the football at this point. 
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