***** The Weinstein Moment and the Trump Presidency

[DemocratSinceBirth]

In 1975, Susan Brownmiller published a startling and controversial volume in the literature of feminism. It was called “Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape.” Deploying a wide range of examples from history, criminology, psychoanalysis, mythology, and popular culture, Brownmiller came to a provocative conclusion about the origins of the patriarchal order. “Man’s discovery that his genitalia could serve as a weapon to generate fear,” she wrote, “must rank as one of the most important discoveries of prehistoric times, along with the use of fire and the first crude stone axe.” Sexual coercion, and the threat of its possibility, in the street, in the workplace, and in the home, she found, is less a matter of frenzied lust than a deliberate exercise of physical power, a declaration of superiority “designed to intimidate and inspire fear.”

Brownmiller chronicled the use of rape as a weapon in warfare, from classical antiquity to Vietnam; its role in the history of marital and property rights; the grotesque way that it shapes our notions of “masculinity” and “femininity.”

...

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/20/the-weinstein-moment-and-the-trump-presidency

[sunonmars]

1. Weinstein is being villified while Trump is touring Asia....the hypocrisy astounds.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. Weiner is in prison for sending a picture of his genitalia to a 15 year old girl.

Roy Moore might be going to the Senate after making a fourteen year old touch his.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. Did you think we were kidding when we said

I
O
K
I
Y
A
R
?

It is OK because they have no decency, no values.

[brer cat]

4. +++++ nt

[Orrex]

5. Yes indeed

I applaud the fact that we're now shining a spotlight on Hollywood's various and multiple sex offenders, but I'd love it if society were able to point just a little of that scrutiny at our so-called president.

Weinstein was fired and will never regain his status, even if he manages to avoid much-deserved prison time;
Bill Cosby will never escape the shadow cast by the dozens of women who've credibly accused him of rape;
Kevin Spacey has already lost jobs and will likely never act again;
Louis CK will be poison for many years thanks to his admitted pattern of ultra-skeevy sexual assaults;
Brett Rattner... Well, he was already known to be an asshole, so we'll see what happens to that shitstain.

Anyway, there Trump sits, still kissing Putin's ass and undermining US credibility at home and abroad, after a decades-long career of sexual predation, and yet he faces no actual consequences?

What the fuck? Seriously, what the actual fuck?

[Irish_Dem]

6. Women understand it. The double standard and lack of consequences for offenders. nt

[LiberalLovinLug]

7. Where are all those 13, or was it 17 accusers?

I can only guess that its a case of not wanting the publicity, not to mention the wrath of the federal government. Or have they been secretly paid off? Have they been threatened?

Damn I'd love to see Trump taken down on not just one issue, you know that traitor thing. But at the same time having to defend himself against his past sexual predication abuse. Because his deplorables will need a ton of malfeasance against him to ever turn on him.

[Orrex]

9. They might very well fear for their lives

Yesterday I saw a video featuring some of Trump's disgusting comments and actions over the years, which in the aggregate paint a rather horrifying portrait of a vile human being.

Part of the video touched on Trump barging into the dressing room of a teen beauty pageant, and the sequence featured one named woman's comment that she was shocked to see a man in there.

Still, I don't fault any woman for choosing not to come forward, because one can easily imagine the Rightwing hate-storm that would crash down on them for daring to challenge the idiot orange idol.

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. apparently raping a country is okay so long as it's a GOPer doing it

Even if he's a fake GOPer.

[Orrex]

10. True, and true.