RUDE PUNDIT: "A Man's Life" Counts More Than a Woman's Trauma

[kpete]

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Seriously, this was like a pathetic audition for Hell's community theatre production of Fatal Attraction, The Musical.

It was also of a piece with what Trump said earlier in the day. "My whole life I've heard, 'you're innocent until proven guilty,' but now you're guilty until proven innocent. That's a very, very difficult standard," he told reporters. "It's a very scary time for young men in America when you can be guilty of something that you may not be guilty of." First off, studies show that, at most, 10% of all rape allegations turn out to be false after investigation (and that means there was no conviction, so no one is "guilty" of rape). And other studies say that perhaps 65% of all sexual assaults are never reported. So for every University of Virginia-like falsehood, there are a whole bunch of unreported rapes and other attacks.

Plus, you know what I never did as a young man or as a not-young one now? I never fucking walked down the street wondering if I was going to be raped. I never fucking walked into a park wondering if I was going to get raped. I never fucking looked for my car in a parking lot wondering if I was going to get raped. I never fucking had trouble opening my front door with groceries in my hands while wondering if I was going to get raped. I never fucking went to an empty building on the weekend at my school wondering if I was going to get raped. I never fucking rode an elevator or walked down a stairway wondering if I was going to get raped. I never fucking went to a party or a bar wondering if I was going to get raped. I never fucking hung out with my friends and acquaintances wondering if one of them was going to rape me. I never fucking took a drink from someone wondering if it was going to knock me out so they could rape me. I never fucking got up in the morning and had a 100 times during the day where I wondered if I was going to be raped.

So I know very clearly who is and who isn't living in a scary time, and it sure as fuck ain't young men.

Perhaps even more gut-churning than Trump's own bullying of a sexual assault victim was the idiot horde's reactions to it. Again, it's shocking that, really, it's not that shocking. When Trump started his "I don't know" riff, so many in the crowd at the 8400 seat arena in Southaven, Mississippi, were on his side, and a whole lot of the credulous rubes started hee-hawing in delight, their yahoo yawps and grunts urging him on, their pounded clapping serving as his tribal rhythm, making him dance more enthusiastically for their adoration. What a bunch of goddamned animals, hooting their approval of the denigration of a woman who Trump himself said was credible. At this point, Trump has gone so low, so depraved, that he could select a MAGA hat-wearing child to finger his asshole through every rally speech and families would be tearing each other to shreds for their little ones to be chosen for the honor.

Of course, mostly, this was about Trump himself, as he gave away a moment later at the rally: "I've had many false accusations. I've had it all. I've had so many. And when I say it didn't happen nobody believes me." Well, the problem is that too many people believe him. Not enough people believe the women whose traumas he feels so free to knock down.


the rest:
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2018/10/a-mans-life-counts-more-than-womans.html

[hlthe2b]

1. Not a man's "life"... a man's PROMOTION, a man's ADVANCEMENT, a man's DESIRES

Something HAS to change and fast.

[2naSalit]

2. Not just her trauma

her entire life as well. She has to live with the preliminary fear her entire life, then after being assaulted, at whatever age, she then must live with that and a heightened trauma of being told it doesn't matter while trashing her reputation assaulted yet again not to mention anonymous threats on her life and family thereafter.

No, there's no comparing what the victim endures with what a sniveling affluenza boy suffers in any way. And her location on the social ladder is insignificant because rape is rape.

[Ilsa]

3. Not his life. His career advancement, his bragging rights,

his "entitled" self promotion.

[smirkymonkey]

4. K&R

[pdsimdars]

5. GOP drama queens

[struggle4progress]

6. When I was on trial, Trump didn't care that I might be innocent

BY YUSEF SALAAM
The Washington Post
August 21, 2017 08:48 PM
Updated August 22, 2017 01:28 PM

In 1990, my co-defendants and I were wrongfully convicted and imprisoned after being charged for the brutal and tragic beating and rape of 28-year-old Trisha Meili, known then as the Central Park Jogger, in 1989.

As I wrote last year: “When we were arrested, the police deprived us of food, drink, and sleep for more than 24 hours.” Under duress, false confessions were made. “Though we were innocent, we spent our formative years in prison, branded as rapists. During our trial, it seemed like every New Yorker had an opinion. But no one took it further than Trump. He called for blood in the most public way possible. Trump used his money to take out full-page ads in all of the city’s major newspapers, urging the reinstatement of the death penalty in New York.”

We spent, respectively, between seven and 13 years in prison, until exculpatory DNA evidence emerged and another man, Matias Reyes, confessed to committing that terrible crime, and our convictions were overturned. We sued the city of New York for police and prosecutorial misconduct and settled the case in 2014. In the years since, I’ve done my best to move on.

But last week, when I heard Trump adamantly, almost angrily, scold reporters with, “You still don’t know all the facts,” I could hardly believe his hypocrisy. Even for someone as fact-challenged as Trump, this was too much. When we were on trial for our freedom, as children, trying desperately to clear our names, he — a private citizen at the time — took it upon himself to poison public opinion, demanding the harshest punishment possible, even though he didn’t know, and couldn’t have known, the facts ...

https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article168539182.html

[tblue37]

7. K&R. nt

[OhNo-Really]

8. More important than ALL victims. Millions relived their assaults this past week

Trump dumped on all of us.

[Grasswire2]

11. yes

The massive triggering.

[PatrickforO]

9. This reminds me of that Mormon mother of six and her rant on

how to really reduce the number of abortions.

The biggest point she made about unwanted pregnancy? It is caused 100% by irresponsible male ejaculation.

And then something else struck home that really helped me understand how women are looked at as being less valuable in this culture. Birth control pills. They have horrible side effects. Nausea, breast tenderness, mood swings and so on.

Then, the lady asks, did you know they once developed birth control products for men. They had basically the same side effects, except menstrual spotting, of course, but were taken off the market because of concern over these side effects. Her conclusion? Men's comfort is more important than a woman's life.

I looked it up, because it is well worth reading. The woman's name is Gabrielle Blair.

Link to tweet

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[Scurrilous]

10. K&R