This makes me livid. Fuck him. All I can say.

I want it to become the default reaction for women to pry away a man’s fingers and scream. I want it to be the safe default reaction because we know we will be believed and people will be aghast at the creep for creeping and not at the young woman for being “disruptive”. I am disgusted. He did this at a funeral. Of…

I’d bet he’s been “too friendly” a few thousand times.

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. 

“I hug all the female artists and the male artists”

That’s what I noticed too. Seemed he was smashing her against his side. 

This is the worst. At a FUNERAL service?? In front of hundreds of people?? For one of the most legendary women of all time?? You gotta be kidding me. So incredibly gross and disrespectful to Ariana and Aretha.

It really pisses me off that of all the pastors who would have been proud to officiate Aretha Franklin’s funeral, this is the one who got that honor. This conduct really spits on her legacy. And I would still feel that way even if I somehow knew that Aretha herself would have excused this.

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.

He was visibly digging in while she kept trying to pull away. He knew.

A few things were being conflated in the reaction to what was frankly sexual harassment here. Saw the clip of Ariana Grande performing first before seeing the grope and thought it was disrespectful to wear a skimpy LBD to a funeral. BUT. It gives Bishop Charles Ellis no right to grope her, sexually and racially harass…

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.

He knew exactly what he was doing.  What an asshole!

That’s the first thing my eye was drawn to. Like wtf that is not a hug how do you have your fingers in a vise grip right by her breast. What a fucking creepy creeperton! If he’s like that on a broadcast god only knows what else he is up to. *shudder*

Racist and a molester. Sounds like a priest alright.

“Maybe I crossed the border” You don’t say! Seriously, this is a bad apology.

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…

Between this and lecherous Bill Clinton staring at her ass, this was definitely this most cringe-worthy part of the entire eight hours.