When they start stacking up you know something is up, and credible hard evidence shouldn't be necessary. Does anyone think we screwed up as a society by not sending Josh Powell to prison before he killed his own children as well? Circumstantial evidence in the Powell [non]case & testimony from a combination of people a man has had documented contact with should be enough for the public to indict them.
When they start stacking up you know something is up, and credible hard evidence shouldn't be necessary. Does anyone think we screwed up as a society by not sending Josh Powell to prison before he killed his own children as well? Circumstantial evidence in the Powell [non]case & testimony from a combination of people a man has had documented contact with should be enough for the public to indict them.
There has to be some degree of credible substantiation. Multiple similar accounts is a form of substantiation, imo. Non-accusers confirming the reasonable possibility of the accuser's account is a form of substantiation. Enough, at least, for someone to be removed from a workplace if the alleged abuse is happening there.
Red
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All of it is probably true. Why would someone come forward when there are others coming forward? Why even come forward unless it's true? Unless you think they are paid operatives. And why pay someone and risk being found out when others are already coming out?
Spinoza
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It scares me that people actually think this way. As if the act of somebody making a claim about something implies that it's true. There could be political motivations, desire for attention, potential monetary awards in the form of civil suits, desire for revenge, psychosis, impaired memory... the list could go on. For example, I think most of Al Franken's accusers are greatly exaggerating or flat out lying. I could be wrong, but I wouldn't be surprised if I was right.
Stats show that many, many women deal with sexual abuse in some form, and almost all with sexual harassment. What is reported is a drop in an ocean. Yet people still believe that men are innocent and women have ulterior motives, or even if men are guilty it wasn't that big of a deal. Why is that? It makes me sick to see how many men, on here and everywhere, who want to discredit and blame women still. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? It's time to check your stupid male privilege. There will always be people that lie, but the assumption that men are typically not lying and that women most likely are is so frustrating. Do the math!
How many women's lives have improved by reporting sexual abuse? Some received well-deserved monetary settlements because it has typically been the only form of justice they would be able to receive, but if you think money makes the horror and pain go away, you are mistaken. If you think the attention they get is positive, you are sadly in error. Ask Monica Lewinsky and Kobe's rape victim and Elizabeth Smart and Anita Hill and a million other women how much better their lives got at the time.
Thanks to the men on here who seem to understand. It is finally time for women to be heard, and it makes me angry that so many men want to keep the status quo where men get to do whatever they want and women have to shut up and take it.
The idea that women are lying in Roy Moore's case is an example of not understanding this situation at all. No woman reports all of the abuse and harassment incidents they experience. We suffer in silence because no one listens. Why do women come forward many years later? Usually because something happens that compels them to do so (like your abuser running for the Senate) or because the climate becomes a little more friendly to do so.
I have experienced many situations from co-workers that now would get them fired, but at the time it occurred there were not the procedures in place to do anything about it. I have no intention of hunting these men down and trying to ruin their lives now, but if any of them ran for government office, you bet I'd want to join my voice with others who experienced pain, trauma and humiliation at their hands. If they did it to me, they did it to others.
How many women's lives have improved by reporting sexual abuse? Some received well-deserved monetary settlements because it has typically been the only form of justice they would be able to receive, but if you think money makes the horror and pain go away, you are mistaken. If you think the attention they get is positive, you are sadly in error. Ask Monica Lewinsky and Kobe's rape victim and Elizabeth Smart and Anita Hill and a million other women how much better their lives got at the time.
Thanks to the men on here who seem to understand. It is finally time for women to be heard, and it makes me angry that so many men want to keep the status quo where men get to do whatever they want and women have to shut up and take it.
The idea that women are lying in Roy Moore's case is an example of not understanding this situation at all. No woman reports all of the abuse and harassment incidents they experience. We suffer in silence because no one listens. Why do women come forward many years later? Usually because something happens that compels them to do so (like your abuser running for the Senate) or because the climate becomes a little more friendly to do so.
I have experienced many situations from co-workers that now would get them fired, but at the time it occurred there were not the procedures in place to do anything about it. I have no intention of hunting these men down and trying to ruin their lives now, but if any of them ran for government office, you bet I'd want to join my voice with others who experienced pain, trauma and humiliation at their hands. If they did it to me, they did it to others.
Joe Bagadonuts
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Just like people who are not guilty of murder have no need to be concerned, right? After all, innocents never get imprisoned or even accused.
♪alt13
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"sexual misconduct" hate it
Pretty sure he was accused of statutory rape. Having sex with a child. That ain't misconduct. Having sex with an employee or cheating on your spouse is sexual misconduct. Rape is not. I think using these kind of euphemisms is counterproductive.
I wasn't talking about any specific person in my post. That's why I used a general term like that.
True, there's a lot of psycho bitches out there. And psycho dudes.
D
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I stopped reading when you called Jeff Flake a RHINO.
The mere fact that many on the right have the opinion that politicians like Flake, Romney, and Jeb Bush are RHINOs just goes to show how far to the right their party has shifted...
And why it resembles more of a sick cult than a political party.
Yeah, I mean they don't even have a horn, and if there's one thing I know about rhinos, it's that they have horns.