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Post by dualstow » Mon Nov 06, 2017 7:23 am

I believe everyone was standing on a very crowded bus. This was in China, btw, where they're used to being crammed in like sardines. They even have a saying (that has nothing to do with lechery): "If you're lonely and you want a hug, take the metro or the bus."

Sorry for the ambiguity and and derailing. To wrap it up, he tried to do a little grinding with his hips. Middle-aged man.
I've had a similar experience (not on a bus)
I'm very sorry to hear it!
You know, before all this Weinstein stuff went down, I gave out pepper spray to some female neighbors. It was because of violent crime, not casual perversion. But now, I think they have another reason to carry.
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Post by WiseOne » Mon Nov 06, 2017 7:37 am

Chinese buses, NYC subways....what's a woman to do? Sometimes you just have to go with this sentiment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE4mqbNo0R4
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Re: Trump and sexual harassment and the media

Post by Kriegsspiel » Mon Nov 06, 2017 12:31 pm

WiseOne wrote:Chinese buses, NYC subways....what's a woman to do? Sometimes you just have to go with this sentiment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE4mqbNo0R4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfOQ7VVontE

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Re: Trump and sexual harassment and the media

Post by Michellebell » Mon Nov 06, 2017 4:37 pm

I am actually a bit curious right now as to why this stuff hasn't happened to me at all. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad. But at the same time I find it odd that it doesn't happen to me. I am getting the sense that most people expect most women to experience this kind of thing in today's society. I don't know if I'm just lucky or if it's something about the way I look or behave. I really have a hard time imagining that kind of thing ever happening to me.

Growing up, my father was definitely concerned that a boy would try to take advantage of me so he signed up me for self-defense classes and got me books about it and stuff. I learned some useful tips but luckily have never had to do any of it before, knock on wood.

If a guy tried to pull that kind of thing on me though, I'd call him out on it in front of all those people. At the very least, I'd probably gasp in shock and glare at him. Seriously, men do NOT treat me that way. And they have no right to treat any women that way at all. Most of the strangers I meet, especially in Ohio more so than in NJ, are very polite, hold open doors and stuff.

Trump's treatment toward women doesn't seem bad to me though. I know some of you must think I sound nuts, but really I don't think I'd be uncomfortable working for him. I think it's because he's so boldly honest. I feel like people who have a real problem with that kind of stuff would be much more secretive about it and be too afraid to joke about things like that. Plus the interviews I've seen from female employees have been positive.
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Re: Trump and sexual harassment and the media

Post by Michellebell » Mon Nov 06, 2017 5:58 pm

Libertarian666 wrote:
Michellebell wrote:I am actually a bit curious right now as to why this stuff hasn't happened to me at all. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad. But at the same time I find it odd that it doesn't happen to me. I am getting the sense that most people expect most women to experience this kind of thing in today's society. I don't know if I'm just lucky or if it's something about the way I look or behave. I really have a hard time imagining that kind of thing ever happening to me.

Growing up, my father was definitely concerned that a boy would try to take advantage of me so he signed up me for self-defense classes and got me books about it and stuff. I learned some useful tips but luckily have never had to do any of it before, knock on wood.

If a guy tried to pull that kind of thing on me though, I'd call him out on it in front of all those people. At the very least, I'd probably gasp in shock and glare at him. Seriously, men do NOT treat me that way. And they have no right to treat any women that way at all. Most of the strangers I meet, especially in Ohio more so than in NJ, are very polite, hold open doors and stuff.
There is the secret. Don't live in NJ.
Michellebell wrote: Trump's treatment toward women doesn't seem bad to me though. I know some of you must think I sound nuts, but really I don't think I'd be uncomfortable working for him. I think it's because he's so boldly honest. I feel like people who have a real problem with that kind of stuff would be much more secretive about it and be too afraid to joke about things like that. Plus the interviews I've seen from female employees have been positive.
People who aren't from the Northeast (Phila, NY, NJ) often have a negative opinion of people from those areas, who tend to be blunt and outspoken.

Then add the 24/7 barrage of negatively slanted "news" about Trump from the "mainstream media" and it's fairly easy to see why he would be considered a monster by a lot of people. Obviously I'm not one of those people.

On the other hand, I would be very uncomfortable working for Hillary. A lot of her former employees and acquaintances have had terrible suicides.

And apparently Donna Brazile was concerned about the same problem for some reason: "Rich appears elsewhere in Brazile’s book, as the Post reported earlier in the weekend. She wrote that Rich’s murder haunted her and that she'd installed surveillance cameras at her home and would keep the blinds in her office window closed so she could not be seen by snipers, according to the Post." (http://www.newsweek.com/donna-brazile-b ... yptr=yahoo)

I can't figure out why would she be worried about a "botched robbery". Isn't that the official explanation of his death?
Ha, well I grew up in NJ and moved to upstate NY during college, then moved to Ohio when I was 21. I'm not sure if NJ is prone to more sexual assault or just has higher amounts of plain-old a-hole behavior, but I do find that Ohioans are much more polite and many are more religious. And yeah, I would be pretty afraid to work for the Clintons too. Really it's pretty amazing to me that Donna Brazile's story is making it out to the public right now.
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