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Showing Original Post only (View all)Cuomo is 63 years old. I am 75 years old. [View all]
I still find young women attractive, because they are attractive. However, I don't expect that they find me attractive, because that almost never happens.
I don't flirt with young women. I don't touch them, unless they are related to me or otherwise connected with me and offer an old man a hug. I don't try to kiss them. I might smile at them, but that's it.
It doesn't matter that I think they are attractive. That's irrelevant. I'm an old man who behaves himself.
Andrew Cuomo, perhaps, has not learned that lesson yet. He may still think he is attractive to younger women. Now, he's being accused of sexually harassing some younger women. I've read the accounts. I've seen the photos. None of those accounts appear to me to be sexual harassment. They involve flirtatious behavior that was not appreciated by the women accusing him. He shouldn't do that sort of thing.
There is nothing there that is illegal, actually. It's just poor decisions, based on incorrect assumptions on Cuomo's part. He didn't kiss the young woman. He asked if he could kiss her. He did not attempt to have sex with the other women. He just brought the subject up and it was rejected by those women.
Is he a dirty old man? Perhaps. Is he guilty of some sort of crime? No, not really. He's not that old, really. Not yet. However, he still has lessons to learn.
I cannot see any reason for him to resign from his office, though. I see reasons for him to reevaluate his behavior and stop doing that sort of thing. I suspect he will do exactly that, going forward.
Does unwanted flirtation by some old fart make some women feel uncomfortable? Yes, it can, but doesn't always. Old farts, though, should leave young women alone, regardless of their attractiveness. Flirting with them is a losing proposition, so just don't do it, Andrew. Grow up. Accept your age. Stop being creepy.