You Don’t Need A Daughter To Know Trump Bragging About Sexual Assault Is Vile

[sheshe2]

Humans don’t deserve to be assaulted. The end.

It’s heartening to see men like Ryan, Romney and Bush finally taking Trump to task for his long-standing record of blatant misogyny. But by refusing to simply condemn Trump’s horror, and instead framing it as an insult only to women or to “our daughters and wives,” these men are treating women as objects. Kind of like how Trump treats women as objects ― calling them pigs, rating their looks, etc.

There seems to be this idea out there that men can only understand sexism, rape or harassment if they think about the victim as a daughter or wife. Why would that be? It’s about thinking of women as possessions. Imagine if Trump was bragging about stealing a piano. And you had to tell someone, “Imagine if I stole your guitar you really love,” in order for them to understand that stealing was wrong.

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And you don’t need to be a woman or the parent of someone with a vagina to understand that it is not OK for someone to “grab ‘em by the pussy.”

When you only conceive of women’s humanity in relation to the men in their lives, that becomes the only way to explain the horror of sexual assault. What if it were your daughter? What if it were your granddaughter? (”It” is how Trump refers to women in the tape).

In these men’s estimations, women are only people when they are connected in some way to other men.

Please understand that’s absurd. Women are people all of the time.

Read More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/you-dont-need-a-daughter-to-know-trumps-comments-on-sexual-assault-are-vile_us_57f85be0e4b0e655eab483af?

[regnaD kciN]

1. Apparently not for Drumpf…

…who has no problem with other guys calling his daughter "a piece of ass."

http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/08/politics/trump-on-howard-stern/index.html

[Frank Cannon]

2. I've engaged in my share of "locker room" talk.

I've never heard anything of the likes Trump said. Any of my associates would stay far, far away from anyone who talks like that and would warn every woman who comes near him to do the same. We wouldn't care how much money the asshole thinks he has.