Blah blah blah — you’re just another guy who didn’t read or understand the article or what every woman has had to explain to men about not being comfortable with speaking out to authorities at the time.

Both of these women told other people about the incidents soon after they occurred. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/al-franken-two-more-women-groping_us_5a15a455e4b09650540ec295?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

Both women told other people about the incidents soon after they occurred. Both women are liberal. read the HuffPo story.

I was wincing at the monologue as well, but because it wasn’t funny.

I don’t know if you are a woman, or if you read jez often, but it has been communicated numerous times that women have been socialized to put up with shit that makes them extremely uncomfortable or upset or even injured. She was at the fucking USO, she was there to entertain the troops. How do you think she would have…

You should read her account. I know that she accepted his apology. I wrote elsewhere that people don’t get how fucked up what he did was. In short, my concern is that this incident will get dismissed as merely “tasteless,” deterring others from coming forward. FWIW I’m a liberal and Franken supporter.

There can be nuance, but I think that people are really downplaying the fucked up psychology of the person who committed these acts (which I seriously doubt was a one-off). As a liberal and Franken fan, I am concerned with being a hypocrite. I want him investigated, and I want any woman of any political party who has…

55 year old men who do that are not neophytes. That pose spoke to his worldview, and you bet your ass it was a power trip. That photo was meant to humiliate her. Did you not read the original article and her account?

Hi statement was mostly his reminding everyone how much they admired him.

Haha, exactly. Notice how he sobered up real quick and left the scene once one of the woman reminded him that he was married?

He never apologized, though. He never said “I’m sorry.”

That is what pisses me off, second to the damage he caused to these women.

Clearly there is an alcohol problem, but he’s a coward to use that as the reason.

So, he’s blaming this on alcoholism? Jeezus.

I think that your relationship makes the “85%” cut.

I don’t get it either (I’m white). I would never try to touch someone’s hair, other than my SO’s or maybe braid my niece’s hair.

I’m not demanding that they date me. There is a shortage of available men. The dating pool shrinks to a tiny puddle.

It’s just something that I noticed. Calm the F down.

I never wanted babies, for medical and other reasons.