Posted on 10/12/2003 3:24:41 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
What a world. Voters have elected a serial groper to be governor of California.
And women helped put him there.
According to exit polls, 44 percent of Arnold Schwarzenegger's voters were women.
Whatever were they thinking?
That the devil made him do it? That all men are dogs and can't help themselves?
Or that the women who pointed the finger at Schwarzenegger were lying or acting as pawns of the Democrats?
It wasn't just a few women. It began with two women putting their names out there in public and ended up, in less than a week, with about a dozen charging that, between 1975 and 2000, Schwarzenegger grabbed, groped and humiliated them.
I talked to three of the women last week.
Jan Prinzmetal, a fitness expert, said Schwarzenegger grabbed her under her skirt and shoved his hand inside her pantyhose as she was leaving a gym.
Joy Browne, a psychologist and syndicated radio talk show host, remembered him running his hands along her legs while she conducted an hourlong, live interview with him early in her career. He later tried to lure her to his hotel room, she said.
Colette Brooks, who runs an advertising agency, has never forgotten the moment when, as a young CNN intern, she led Schwarzenegger up a stairwell to a network interview. Going up the steps behind her, he remarked, "Nice a--," and grabbed her backside.
The women all said these incidents happened in the 1980s.
Now it looks as though the women came forward for nothing.
Not even the Los Angeles Times, the supposedly liberal paper that published their allegations, took note in its postelection, get-down-to-business editorial that Schwarzenegger takes office with these clouds still over his head. It was as though the breadth of his victory nullified the claims of his accusers.
"I just wanted voters to know for whom they've voted, but sadly, I don't think they care," Prinzmetal said.
Women, too?
"If he looked like Yasser Arafat, no one would have voted for him," Prinzmetal said.
So what? Schwarzenegger did well among women because he's a hottie?
That's no goofier than seeing him as a miracle man, a radical agent of change in a state desperate for it.
"Many people confuse the power of his celebrity on the big screen . . . with what he could potentially do in real life," Brooks said.
Of course. Whatever he doesn't like in state government, Schwarzenegger will just blow up.
Surely women were as prone as men to believe that those who stepped forward to speak up about Schwarzenegger's conduct were put up to it by the Democrats. Surely that contributed to the vote results last week. But the women I talked to said they came forward on their own, angered by Schwarzenegger's denials.
As the campaign ended, we heard Schwarzenegger compared to the illustrious and sexually industrious Bill Clinton. You know what followed. If Clinton could be forgiven, why not Schwarzenegger?
There was a difference, if not in their conduct than in their choices. Clinton's women wanted him. The women I talked to about Schwarzenegger did not. But that didn't stop him. This was harassment.
This was abuse, and it wasn't just about sex, Browne said: "He was trying to show me who was boss."
I will wonder for a long time why more women didn't believe Schwarzenegger's accusers and side with them. Maybe, when you are desperate for work - and in California, people are desperate for work - you tolerate the boss' bad manners because at least you have a job.
Schwarzenegger is a lucky man. The campaign was short. There was hardly time for the allegations against him to sink in. Women did what women so often do with their men.
They forgave him.
Apparently not this woman. A real woman might have slapped him or told him off but she continued on for an hour more doing nothing??? She didn't even need to slap ---- she could have given him a cold look and said "this interview is over". I have a feeling she liked it at the time, it was only later --- like last week she decided to be offended.
They had a feminist try to change Al Gore's look into an alpha male look, even retouching his photos appropriately. Did they already forget that wimpy men don't appeal too much to voters?
Women like Juanita and Paula? Right...
Just for the record, ol' Ahnold wasn't out there pawing at Cruz Bigbreast's daughters. This was the Hollywood scene. Anyone remember Hollywood (pre-election)? Yeah, THAT Hollywood - land of tabloid orgies and the casting couch; land where everyone knows that the only way to the top for women is to climb the stairway of male crotch. It's also the same for the cute guy - a well placed bj on a connected dude does wonders for the career.
Maybe, then, a lot of women fugured out that groping in Hollyweird was not much to get excited about; sex sells in tinsel town and the rest of the electronic media.
Yet, the neocommunist Times, pretendeds that, of 15 women, all were only felt or fondled and NONE ever did him. BOGUS!!! The voters might have assumed that Arnold was a fairy and that's why there were no actual scores. But, Arnold's wife and 4 children prevented that discussion. So, female voters KNEW that the claims were so faint that Arnold was almost being praised. The Times is so far removed from the real world that it didn't see it.
How can you distinguish between Clinton and Schwarzenegger on the grounds that "Clinton's women wanted him"?
Both men found some women responsive to their advances and other women offended by them. You would have credibility if you condemned Schwarzenegger AND Clinton; by drawing this phony distinction, you reveal yourself to be either a hypocrite or an idiot.
In the right context, it's no crime.
Most women like heterosexual men (RAT staffers and LA Times writers excepted). Most men understand (metrosexuals excepted).
That's all there is to it.
They elected Arnold for the same reason they elected and re-elected Clinton, they didn't care about the groping even if it were true, which most of them probably believed to be so.
If Trent Lott would have been in Arnold's shoes they would have made him pay. Ditto for Newt, ditto for Nixon, ditto for Cheney, etc., etc. Bush would get away with it too, just flash a photo of him in his landing gear.
The only way to explain it is that women don't mind a groper, or a 'give me a little in the Oval Office, please' punk if they are aesthetically (sp?) pleasing to them.
It's an unfortunate side effect of the 19th.
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I wish Arnold would publicly state how many women have grabbed and groped him over the years. I wouldn't be surprised if the number of women who couldn't keep their hands off Arnold, the body builder and movie star, added up into the hundreds.
Guess this bimbette never heard of Juanita Broaddrick or Kathleen Willey (to name two).
No, no, no... those don't count to liberals, remember? Nuts and sluts is the name of the Kool-aid they all drank. It distorts their view of history and helps them pretend they're not hypocrites.
As a somewhat expert at getting in pantyhose, I can attest it ain't easy.
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