the statue has sexual assault written all over it.
Posted on 10/07/2014 7:34:53 AM PDT by beaversmom
The 25ft statue which weighs 13 tonnes was placed close to Pegasus Bridge to mark the 70th anniversary of D-Day. Whilst the Caen Memorial Museum have described it as an “iconic work” French feminist group Osez Le Féminisme have started a petition to have it removed.
They maintain the women in the original photo did not consent to being kissed and it was therefore a sexual assault. Alfred Eisenstaedt who took the original photo has confirmed the sailor in the photo was kissing any woman who came close to him. He is said to have had little regard for whether they were young or old, attractive or not.
The group told The Times: “The sailor could have laughed with these women, hugged them, asked them if he could kiss them with joy... No, he chose to grab them with a firm hand to kiss them. It was an assault.”
They claim the woman in the photo backs up their allegation, although there is some despute over her identity. Museum director Stéphane Grimaldi says the woman is Edith Shain, a nurse who maintained she had not been assaulted in any way. The feminists say she is Greta Zimmer Friedman, an Austrian whose parents died in the concentration camps.
Friedman has publicly stated that she did not ask to be kissed, she was quoted as saying: “I wasn’t kissing him. He was kissing me”. However, she never made a complaint against the sailor, and in fact remained friends with him afterwards. The two met up on several occasions.
The name of the statue is a reference to the demand by Allied Forces that Axis Powers surrender without any conditions. This was achieved in 1945 after heavy casualties were inflicted on both sides. One of the bloodiest days of the conflict was...
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Thats still being pushed. There was a recent article thread here about how all penetration is a violent act and therefore assault/rape.
Well we don’t know the pressure they put that woman under to stage it, do we? I hope the sailor and all the people involved in this crime are still alive and it’s not to late to prosecute.
No, what the Germans did when they marched through Russia was “sexual assault”.
And that’s what that sailor risked his life to keep American women from experiencing.
They have a Hobby, it’s hating men.
Boo Hoo butchie, to the victor go the spoils! : )
Agree! No statute of limitations for crimes this serious!
Heterophobes, every one....
According to Michigan university, denying someone sexual contact is a sexual assault, so who knows what is going on anymore,
It’ll be interesting to see if the French are as submissive to the demands of passing idiots Americans are. I’d like to see the Frogs tell the hairy-legged nags to shove it in that ample, cellulite-packed aft region where the sun don’t shine.
Sexual Assault isn’t Rape. Rape is easy to define, sexual assault is ambuguous and open at points to interpretation. But the lines between the two are increasingly being blurred (deliberately distorted to make them indistinguishable from one another) to advance the agenda.
I pointed that out to my wife a while back when she was amazed at the high % of women they say will be sexually assaulted in their lifetimes. I reached over, patted her on the butt and said “Youre now a sexual assault victim too.”
She didn’t believe me when I insisted that, yes, that really IS where the definition of sexual assault extends.
Remember, the issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.
I wish these dykes would STFU
Violence against "little girls":
Crying Woman Interrupts Restaurant Customers...
When everything becomes sexual assault, nothing is sexual assault. In other words, the term sexual assault will loose it’s meaning. Just as the left is doing with marriage, civil rights, gender identification, etc. They are doing just what their communist mentors have instructed, blurring the lines of right and wrong so that most can no longer tell the difference. How else could you get a country to murder 50 million humans via abortion willingly.
Get a life!
My psychic abilities are like that, too. :( Can’t direct them. ;)
What is boils down to is that the feminists are generally extreme Socialists and love big government. The Nazis were one of the prime examples of big government.
The Nazis were in agreement with Islam during WWII.
Therefore the Leftists are offended when anyone says anything against the muslims since they were closely aligned with their good friends in the German SOCIALIST Workers Party.
In this case, let's call it a statue of limitations. :)
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