Posted on 11/18/2017 5:04:39 AM PST by McGruff
thanks. that is a great PSA
Just Not as disgusting, is that as the citizens of Minnesota, who elected him to represent their state.
Has Franken threatened to punch her lights out yet?
He’s a two fisted kind of guy, you know.
He repeated that actors really need to rehearse everything and that we must practice the kiss. I said ‘OK’ so he would stop badgering me. We did the line leading up to the kiss and then he came at me, put his hand on the back of my head, mashed his lips against mine and aggressively stuck his tongue in my mouth.
I immediately pushed him away with both of my hands against his chest and told him if he ever did that to me again I wouldn’t be so nice about it the next time.
I walked away. All I could think about was getting to a bathroom as fast as possible to rinse the taste of him out of my mouth.
I felt disgusted and violated.
Tweeden wrote that she chose not to alert her supervisors of the incident, so as not to “cause trouble” while in the middle of a war zone, and ignored Franken for the remainder of the tour. It wasn’t until she returned home to L.A., she wrote, that she saw the photo, taken during the 36-hour flight from Afghanistan to L.A. “I felt violated all over again. Embarrassed. Belittled. Humiliated,” she wrote.
Every time I hear his voice or see his face, I am angry. I am angry that I did his stupid skit for the rest of that tour. I am angry that I didn’t call him out in front of everyone when I had the microphone in my hand every night after that. I wanted to. But I didn’t want to rock the boat. I was there to entertain the troops and make sure they forgot about where they were for a few hours. Someday, I thought to myself, I would tell my story.
Franken has already responded. Suffice it to say, this won’t cut it.
https://newrepublic.com/minutes/145859/al-franken-big-trouble
My wife of 42 years tells me she has been sexually harassed several times in her work career. She'd never said anything to me about this until I asked her about it recently when all these women started making allegations and accusations against men. She said it was just one of those things most women deal with in life but she never made a big deal about it.
It happened once in the Air Force hospital where she worked and we first met. I knew the officer involved and he was known as a cad around the hospital. And twice in a large university health center setting. The men all made sexual advances towards her and touched or groped her inappropriately. I'll leave it at that and won't go into any more details....she is my wife after all.
But when I asked what she did in response, in two of the cases she said she did what her mother taught her to do. She slapped their faces and said loudly "Stop it!" or "Don't you dare try that again!" The third man, she kicked in the shin real hard and gave a similar warning. Seems to have worked for her because none of the men in question ever tried it a second time she said.
My wife is a feisty tobacco farm girl from the South, all 103 lbs and 5' 4" of her. She was brought up to not put up with that crap from men she didn't give permission to. Workplace or not, she knows how to handle herself. She just is the kind of gal who says, "No way Jose and keep your damn hands off of me", in no uncertain terms. She is no shrinking violet.
I think many of these women in the news lately probably could have done the same thing to discourage or ward off unwanted advances. But many are physically afraid or afraid for their careers or both. A tough rock and hard place to be between for sure.
I'm just a guy so I don't pretend to know the answers for what women should do in these cases. But my wife seems to have discovered that taking control of her own destiny with her bad experiences, dealing with them strongly and then moving on, has worked for her. She does not consider herself a victim. Just someone who learned from her experiences and lived on.
So her advice to gals who experience unwanted advances from men in their lives: Give them a good swift smack and tell them to stop it.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/11/the-week-in-pictures-more-cowbell-edition.php
Bonus Franken Addition
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/11/the-week-in-pictures-special-al-franken-edition.php
IF anyone did that to me, I would BITE DOWN as hard as I could. They would never forget my reaction. Maybe they would have to have the tongue surgically reattached!!
I was going to say, where was this photo in 2007-08?
That makes a ton of sense to me. I’m afraid that lines are getting blurred between harassment and assault. Being teased, bullied, all terrible things, but I think we are moving everything we don’t like to criminal and that’s very scary.
He won by something like 200 votes - fraudulent, I think.
I remember O’Reilly (whatever one thinks of him) saying he was assaulted by Franken (an obvious lunatic). I agree with you that until the American people start demanding better candidates, we’re gonna be stuck with freaks and monsters.
Back in my day, if someone got into trouble at school, they went to the vice-principal's office for a dressing down or to receive the dreaded swat(s) with a wooden paddle. If it was bad enough, the parents were called in on it and they took care of the wayward child misbehavior themselves at home. Sometimes the kids was suspended for a few days.
But today, the school's just call the cops and everything is considered a criminal offense.
I hear your wife. We had a guy at work who was way too “touchy feely” to the girls on the line. He grabbed me once and I whirled around, made a fist, got ready to throw it and said, “If you do that again I will deck you. Don’t think I won’t.”
In front of God and half of Georgia in the break room. I was known as a goody-two shoes church lady so it was a shock.
Well ... later on he was seriously injured and I had to pray for him. We ended up being friends but he stays at a safe, polite distance.
Valerie nailed it with her comments, what if this was your mom, spouse, sister or daughter?
Thanks, these jpgs give us a reality look of Al Frankenstein.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/11/the-week-in-pictures-special-al-franken-edition.php
Al Frankenstein sexually assaulted her while she was asleep.
Then to make matters worse, he had his assault photoed.
After doing it for sixty years the `rats and their MSM have projection down to an art form and article of faith.
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