Posted on 09/03/2018 8:08:13 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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Singer Ariana Grande took the stage to sing "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman," a funeral fit for a queen also served as a reminder that there isn't a single place in this country where a woman can feel safe from sexual assault and harassment.
Following Grande's performance, Pastor Charles H. Ellis III wrapped his right arm around Grande, pulled her close to him and touched her breast. He did this on stage, in a church, during a funeral -- in front of thousands of attendees. Visibly uncomfortable and tense, Grande forced her way through awkward laughs as to not make a scene at the Queen of Soul's eight-hour funeral.
Ellis later apologized to Grande and her fans, telling the Associated Press, "I don't know; I guess I put my arm around her. Maybe I crossed the border, maybe I was too friendly or familiar, but again, I apologize."
The majority of us have felt what Grande undoubtedly felt on that stage: the undeniable fear that accompanies a violation; the need to keep everyone around you happy while you're internally screaming; the cultural expectation to keep smiling while your bodily autonomy is wholly dismissed. To watch it play out at a funeral is not to be shocked by what you've witnessed, but to be reminded that women -- no matter how powerful or famous -- are not granted the same public safety as men.
But Grande is not the first woman to have been sexually assaulted at a funeral. Sophie Saint Thomas, a freelance writer, was groped while attending her grandmother's funeral this year. "My grandmother died of colon cancer earlier this summer." Thomas told me. "Her death was a massive loss for me, and I was very deep in mourning when I traveled to the funeral."
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Really??? So men are basically animals, compelled by their predator instincts to fondle a woman on stage at a church in the middle of a funeral, and we should accept that.
Do you think your mother would agree with your assessment?
I found it sickening and some of the comments on this post make me doubt the future of the human race.
Nobody said anything about “we should accept that”. Those on the stage and in the audience at the service ACCEPTED that for the most part.
If I were a girl and a man of the cloth did that to me, he’d be meeting Jesus in person, ASAP.
If someone did that to my daughter, the poor bastard would be in the hospital. The only contention would be which one of us, me, my son (who went after a guy who hit his sister and scared the shit out of him), or my daughter would put him there.
I’m not a fan of Ariana regarding her personality. But that’s just wrong. Just looking at the picture makes me want to scream get your hand of my breast ass——. Trust me gentlemen if I woman you didn’t know put her arm around your waist and was touching you on your package right after a public presentation, you’d be like WTF?
Not a fan of her personality and actions. But this was out of line.
he sure was looking to find out.
Maybe because they try to handcuff the real men who would be front and center in protecting them....
Go to Malmo Sweden, Molenbeek Belgium, Somalia and report back to me about sex assault.
What of Mollie? They’d never say that about her.
No safe place around d’rats, conmen, rapists, clintons, dirtbags, feelers, felons, gropers, grifters, jackson, jackasses, liars, lookers, scumbags, sharpton, morons, misogynists, etc., etc.
“Watch the video. He repeatedly wiggles his finger on the edge of her breast, and she turns to look at his hand doing it. He knew what he was doing, and so did she. She did a very good job of not letting her face show it.”
Looks like he won his 20 dollar bet from Clinton. “OK Rev, I bet you 20 bucks you can’t grab a feel, make a stupid excuse and get away with it.”
If you watch the video at half speed you’ll probably change your mind. At one point, his fingers get pretty close to the nipple. No way he wouldn’t have noticed.
Well around the left/liberals/hollywood types is certainly not a safe space. Doesn’t she pay attention to the news?
Intentional.
I have single women friends I don’t get that Handsy with.
Arianna Grande is an America-hating whore!
He was feeling her up...
Lots of video that shows clearly he was coping a feel...
The Fugs, I haven’t thought about that band in almost 50 years.
I saw Grande on the talk show circuit... she seemed nice. Remember the donut licking incident?
If Grande is worried about safe spaces, being center stage and dressed for painting the town... and with Klintoon lusting and the preacher clutching her like a chicken leg at a Sunday picnic... (Whining-stine was unavailable for attendance)...
A tasteless evening for the iconic Queen of soul.
Perhaps Grande ought to consider at least a smidgen of situational awareness.
I can only reckon that Grande is yet another sheltered fool, without a clue...
I’m guessing Willie Jeff was there cuz he likes to blow his sax and add a bit o’ foghorn to the soul records he spins.
The weirdest (lefty) memorial “service” I’ve ever viewed, bar-none.
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