So Trump’s been caught on video bragging about grabbing unsuspecting women “by the p***y.”
Watch the video in this tweet and throw up in your mouth a little:
Women have the power to stop Trump.https://t.co/tTgeqy51PUhttps://t.co/VH3woeAf9Q pic.twitter.com/NjvbkPsjPR
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 7, 2016
Yes, this is horrible Trump revelation number two billion and seven, but this one looks like this could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back, and Republicans are scrambling to condemn his comments and distance themselves from their nominee.
I don’t have much to add here but I think some of you probably do.
Watching John Oliver right now and he summed up this election perfectly. “We’ve sunk so low we’ve hit the earth’s crust begging for the sweet relief of boiling magma”. Also fuck Billy Bush for giggling like a schoolgirl while Trump bragged about groping women.
Hello.
> Ohlmann
Hmm, no, women kiss on the cheek if there is enough comfort between the two persons (except for abusive bosses or colleagues, but in this case, this is harassment). Yes, some times ago, there was no handshaking for women, but women were greeting just by speaking, even with other women, at least outside their circle of friends and relatives. But i agree with you that, inside the said circle, women are more expected to kiss than men, because women kiss both when men only kiss women (except maybe for relatives ? Well, we do that in family and to very close friends).
From my point of view (which may be biased), it is evolving : since i have been in the working world, i regularly see women handshaking other persons. In my current job, i always had women as boss, and handshaking is the norm. I do not say that greeting by kiss do not happen after some years, if the two parties feel comfortable with it, but, at least in my workplace, it is no more the standard.
Have a nice day.
@ ohlmann & occasional reader
In the UK we tend to associate kissing as a greeting with continental Europe. But in Elizabethan times the various foreign ambassadors commented about the weird, to them, British habit at court of men and women kissing indiscriminately in greeting.
I also found out, to my surprise, that M-M mouth kissing in greeting is common in some Arab cultures.
Alan Robertshaw,
Your note about the Elizabethans reminds me of a book I read recently, The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt, which is about the 15th century rediscovery of Lucretius’s De Rerum Natura, a materialistic poem from the 1st century. The rediscoverer, Poggio Bracciolini, was a book collector who visited Germany from his native Italy, and contrasted sober, hard-working Italians with frivolous, fun-loving Germans! Quite a contrast at least to current British stereotypes of those nationalities.
@A.Noyd As much as I hate to defend Romney, he has been consistent in his despising of Trump.
On the small town/big city thing, I just moved back to a small town after living in Indianapolis for 8 years. It’s way, way more prejudiced in the little town than it was in Indy.
Hail and well met! I come from the future to give disheartening news: This hasn’t effected Trump that much, and he still has a chance to be president.
Take that as you will.
I don’t know if this is supposed to be gloating or what, but there are many more recent election related threads.
@Unlucky
The polls say otherwise, as do the large number of prominent Republicans who dropped support immediately following this news.