I’m happy that you reached that place. It would be my default, too - today. I’m 38. As with many, #MeToo brought back a lot of “WTF?!” memories. For example, when I was sixteen, my high school class went to see a play. During intermission, one of the girls told the (female) teacher that the man next to her (in his…

Hell, if my HUSBAND groped me like that in public we’d be having words. That’s inappropriate, dominating behavior no matter who’s doing it.

Every single woman alive watching that had a flashback to their dad’s friend/boss/teacher/supervisor doing that exact same move.

I got no guilt for slurring the creeper with his hand on an unconsenting woman’s breast. Purple is the traditional color for celebratory vestments, but this turd went with red (to celebrate himself) and the chain is as extra as the super sized cuffs on the shirt. I think his style choices and groping are gross.

It also ignores the fact that there was no need for ANY hug!

I was “that woman” who loudly called out that guy in the middle of our workplace for doing that exact same move, after I had told him in a low voice to get his hands off and away. Guess whose female coworkers shamed them for making a scene? I only wish he had gotten fired - which he did, for harrassing phone…

That was my first thought. Just uncomfortable and like...angry and full of secondhand embarrassment. Because most of us have been there and know how it feels to be groped like that and feel like you shouldn’t make a scene. 

I, and probably just about every woman I know, have all received a "hug" like that at some point, and I'll say once more for the folks in the back: That's not a hug, my dude.

Watching that clip lastnight made me ENRAGED. All women have been there. We've all experienced groping in a public place. We've all tried to ignore it because we didn't want to be "that woman" who called out the dude in front of everybody, ruining the vibe. We have all been there. He's a piece of shit. 

He is probably used to getting away with behaving like that because of his role within his church. People probably don’t DARE question his behavior. She is young and attractive, and much smaller than he is physically - he thought he had a right to put hands on her.

Come on, telling someone their name sounds like a menu item is NEVER acceptable; specifying “a Taco Bell menu item” is racist af whether you’re referring to someone who is latinx or not.

Fuck this guy. Fuck him, fuck him, fuck him. He knew exactly what he was doing. I get hugged all the time and somehow women’s hands never end up on my breasts(or buttocks), even “accidentally”

I don’t know much about this bishop but I do know a lot about churches and my husband and I concluded that this is probably how he acts all the time, both the questionable ‘jokes’ and overly touchy/gropy in his own church (which Wikipedia tells me is a megachurch and that he basically inherited his position there from…

You can literally see her pulling against his hand the whole time, clearly trying to create some separation between the two of them. I’m pretty sure he didn’t have any of his male guests in that kind of iron grip.

I was once thanking a Pastor for conducting a funeral service at my funeral home and as I shook his hand, he pulled my arm and gave me a fucking gross, wet kiss on my cheek very near my lips. I couldn’t tell him off because we were standing next to the family of the deceased but holy fuck did I feel tricked. Men of ‘hi…

You can practically see his intellectual hand-tenting in that quote.

“...where the women are strong, mainly from fighting off unwanted sexual advances.”

If only he had a platform to tell his side of the story, perhaps in a wispy nostalgic tone, while taking loud breaths into a microphone.

“It’s been a gropey week here in Lake Wobegon...”

“a story that I think is more interesting and more complicated than the version MPR heard.”