There are very few women who haven’t suffered sexual assault in differing magnitude. This is an epidemic that used to be accepted as “boys will be boys” and the women were responsible to keep them in line. It’s time for it to end.
I have little faith it will be fully stopped. I am 73 and just last week had to leave a restaurant because a young man wouldn’t leave me alone. There are no boundaries.
A day before the Swalwell accusations hit, an Oklahoma state legislator (John Waldron, Democrat) from the Tulsa area had a less intrusive but equally debilitating report. The state legislator had met with a woman (described as young) who wanted help in running for public office. This happened last October. Selfies were taken and nothing, apparently, happened. Except this state legislator manipulated those selfies to show the two kissing. He sent the photos to the woman, accidentally he now says. He resigned from the state Democratic leadership saying he wanted to spend more time with his family and stayed on as state legislator. The Democrats in the state house are calling for Waldron to resign and remove his name for re-election this fall. He has not done that yet. He admits he did send the AI generated photos but that there are darker political motives to remove him from office.
The saying power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Thank you for your commentary, very appropriate,
Thank you for speaking out, for all of us survivors in the world.
There are very few women who haven’t suffered sexual assault in differing magnitude. This is an epidemic that used to be accepted as “boys will be boys” and the women were responsible to keep them in line. It’s time for it to end.
I have little faith it will be fully stopped. I am 73 and just last week had to leave a restaurant because a young man wouldn’t leave me alone. There are no boundaries.
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A day before the Swalwell accusations hit, an Oklahoma state legislator (John Waldron, Democrat) from the Tulsa area had a less intrusive but equally debilitating report. The state legislator had met with a woman (described as young) who wanted help in running for public office. This happened last October. Selfies were taken and nothing, apparently, happened. Except this state legislator manipulated those selfies to show the two kissing. He sent the photos to the woman, accidentally he now says. He resigned from the state Democratic leadership saying he wanted to spend more time with his family and stayed on as state legislator. The Democrats in the state house are calling for Waldron to resign and remove his name for re-election this fall. He has not done that yet. He admits he did send the AI generated photos but that there are darker political motives to remove him from office.
The saying power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Excellent. 👏👏👏