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  1. The problem with this entire hysteria as it plays out is it seems like the consequences for the accused ‘offenders’ is almost always the same no matter the degree of supposed behavior.

    I guess it’s a sign of our times that the freakout would be to the nth degree when in reality most rational people if someone put their hand in a borderline area or made an unwanted pass would put the encounter in their memory banks and think ‘what a jerk’ and then move on but now we need tearful social media posts followed by banishment (unless a ‘D’ politician then, reasons)from acceptable society.

    The line between rude and assault has been blurred to a ridiculous level by some of these people. This was all foreseeable I guess when you think about the college rape trials of the last few years. Pathetic.

  2. My first roommate in college used to randomly pinch girl’s buttocks (those that met his standards). His claimed it was his Italian roots at work.

    Was it an Italian tradiiton? I googled it and this is what I came up with from the blog http://livingwithabroadintuscany.blogspot.com/2012/11/is-bottom-pinching-in-italy-legal.html

    From the post:
    “…I thought I should also comment on the allegations of Italian men pinching women’s bottoms. This practice was rumored to be common some years ago but is said to be pretty much obsolete now. I have not heard of it happening to any women I know. However, while searching for other opinions about Italian men, I read this entry on a blogger website:
    “In 2001, the Italian Supreme Court ruled a man grabbing a woman’s ass was not sexual harassment as long as the act was not premeditated. (Does ‘premeditated’ mean the defense team must prove the man sat at home for three weeks and planned exactly how he was going to pinch the buttocks?)”
    Source: http://www.americangirlsareeasy.com/book/2003/04/italian_men.php

    I wanted to verify if this was true, so I conducted some research to get to, shall we say, the bottom of the matter. Indeed, I found that a court in Rome did rule in January of 2001 that it was not a crime for a man to pinch or touch a woman’s bottom provided it was “a sudden or isolated action.” In this case, a supervisor patted a female co-worker and then threatened to hinder her career if the incident were reported. She sued and won. The boss’s “hands-on” approach initially resulted in an 18-month prison sentence. Yet a higher court ruled in his favor, as the incident occurred “only once and impulsively.” Judges also ruled there was no proof the gesture was sexual.

    But before you rush online to buy your ticket to Italy, I should warn that Italy’s High Court in Rome overturned the ruling in July of 2003. The panel of judges said: “Fondling buttocks unquestionably constitutes a sexual act because the perpetrator commits a substantive and concrete intrusion into the victim’s sexual sphere. Such acts, albeit superficial, amount to assault.”
    Source: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/941804/posts

    In the old days, something like that was likely to get the guys face slapped and that would be the end of it. Here’s wishing for the good old days.

    I’m not advocating for such behavior, but it seems we’ve criminalized nearly everything in response to our attitude that physical responses aren’t acceptable anymore.

    Does a pinch constitute fondling, or does it need to be open handed? And how long does the contact need to be to be considered fondling?

    Hmmm. More research needed.

  3. By the way, another post on the blog, titled “Is Italy a safe and healthy place for young women (and men)?” suggests that while flirting is more common in Italy, Italian men respect women more, based on the rarity of rape in the Italian culture.

    ““The question is, why?” Friedland asks. “It’s not because Roman men don’t look. They are voracious with their eyes, savoring the bodies of women as they pass. After all the time I’ve spent in Rome, I’ve come to think that part of the reason rape is so much rarer in Italy is that Italian men love women more than American men do. Beneath all the sexual jest, the lusty looks and suggestive remarks, Roman men respect women.”

    Friedland’s daughters were subjected to this harassment as they entered their teen years, but they learned to cope along with the Italian girls. He said that Italians accept that flirting is part of human nature but is not a precursor to rape. Girls in Italy are free to “swear at the boys, to berate them, hit them on the heads or in the face, belittling them for their pathetic antics.” His girls didn’t regard the advances as dangerous.”

    http://livingwithabroadintuscany.blogspot.it/2016/11/is-italy-safe-and-healthy-place-for.html

  4. Wow — CBS has suspended Charlie Rose:

    Veteran broadcaster Charlie Rose was suspended by CBS News on Monday following a Washington Post report that he sexually harassed eight women who worked on his PBS talk show .

    Rose, 75, acknowledges and apologizes for the behavior recounted in the Post investigation, which details unwanted sexual advances towards the women, appearing nude in their presence and groping them. The women, aged 21 to 37 at the time, worked at “Charlie Rose” from the 1990s to 2010, the report said.

  5. Did you see the accusations that came out against Russell Simmons yesterday? I was reminded of this, because you said this, “What on earth is this strange passivity on the part of groped women about?”

    The woman who is accusing Simmons said that after he forced her to give him oral sex, she felt dirty and immediately went into the bathroom (in his hotel room), took a shower and he took this an an invitation to continue his advances. Is there no such thing as a flight or fight reaction anymore? I mentioned my skepticism about showering at that moment on Twitter and people kept telling me how the brain doesn’t react how you would expect in such a situation.

    I don’t get it. I don’t doubt the story at all, I just don’t understand her reaction. Don’t we have a natural instinct to flee dangerous situations?

  6. We witness the very natural progression from the 1970s: Title IX, feminism, sexual liberties of all types (gay, bi-, etc), abortion on demand (60 million slaughtered Americans, another Holocaust of sacrificed souls) along with the progressive obscenification of pop music (rap), movies, the erosion of moral bases like Christianity, the phony campus rape epidemic. “Fuck” has become acceptable as a word used by major Democrats immediately linked to “Trump”. The same Dems who told us to respect the Office of the Presidency in the days of Obama.
    Meanwhile, women with their wonderful endowment of tenderness spread their unsupported allegations like Ebola.
    Who will protect them? Who will be their warriors?

    They have brought it all on themselves. I have complained all these charges are unsupported allegations, many remote in time, with obvious political motives (see Roy Moore), but even level heads like Neo find some of these claims “credible”.

    Curiously, sperm counts in the USA have been falling for a generation!
    We will become a feminine nation in a demographic death spiral.

  7. The Leftist alliance is more powerful and regenerative than people wish to believe.

    They have a plan, and even if they are destroyed, they are merely the Deep State’s cannonfodder. There will be more. Just as with Hussein, plenty of tyrants on the Left to replace him.

    There is no permanent solution to their evil. Even killing them is only temporary.

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