(Why bimbos? Because these are grown-up women who are perfectly capable of saying 'No' to a man. If the guy who parks their car had reached out and kissed them they would have said 'no' in no uncertain terms. Bimbos held off when the man was powerful because there's an implied sexual negotiation happening.
Cuomo has the right to due process - and the rest of us have the right to question these women's motives, actions, morality and twisted power...
“Bimbos held off when the man was powerful because there’s an implied sexual negotiation happening.”
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Okay, this is complex, because I don’t completely disagree with you. There is a lot of research about how women react emotionally to powerful men, and even if most of it is subconscious, it very probably that to some degree, they are going to react differently to an advance by a powerful (in an admirable way) male than they would the slob name Joe parking their car. In fact, as I said in other post on rape and harassment, women will often tacitly agree to advances when their is promise (or hope) of personal social gain, even if the gain is only interpersonal. Once the advance appears to have been a one-off or a superficial event, and they don’t feel they gained anything by it, they feel used (and abused) afterward.
However, that doesn’t exclude two other completely realistic and autonomous emotions/states.
One of them is that mammals have an ingrained neurology for social orders (pecking orders in birds). People freeze when someone in power gets aggressive, even if a fight/flight response is experienced, whereas they will react assertively to an aggressive show by someone they consider equal or below them.
Another one, and this one is most important, is that when you are a subordinate, you fear acting out dissension or disobedience. Unlike the previous two experiences, this one can be mostly conscious and you are very aware in the moment that you believe you are in conflict what is happening. The problem is that acquiescence is a pattern in working relationships, and that part of it can be powerfully subconscious. It sounds easy, in theory, to go from saying ‘yes, I’ll get that for you right way’ all day long to flicking a switch and saying no. Subordinates should NOT be put in that situation when it is outside the constraints of their professional contract.