Posted on 09/02/2016 6:46:19 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
An American sailor named George Mendonsa spontaneously takes hold of a complete stranger, 21-year-old Austrian-Jewish refugee Greta Zimmer, bends her backward, plants a kiss on her mouth and continues on his way. Unbeknown to either, famed photojournalist Alfred Eisenstaedt has captured the encounter. The resulting image, published soon after in Life magazine, came to symbolize the exuberance of that moment, in a country overflowing with vigor and youth, at a time when anything seemed possible.....In 2012, a London-based blogger who uses the pseudonym Leopard wrote a provocative post on Crates and Ribbons titled “The Kissing Sailor, or ‘The Selective Blindness of Rape Culture,’” arguing that Mendonsa’s actions should not be idealized as romantic. To the writer, the kiss represented nothing short of a sexual assault.
The post highlights a series of comments from Greta Friedman’s 2005 Veterans History Project interview, which addresses the issue of what we would now call consent. “It wasn’t my choice to be kissed,” Friedman said at the time. “The guy just came over and grabbed!” adding, “That man was very strong. I wasn’t kissing him. He was kissing me.” Leopard also cited a CBS News interview in which Friedman said of Mendonsa, “I did not see him approaching, and before I knew it, I was in this vice grip (sic).”
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Damn it.
I would not be here had my Father not courted my Mom.
Heck none of us would.
Words continue to escape me...................
Ever see “equilibrium” ? In that movie everything was plain, white or gray and the windows were covered with wax paper.
They did it to “eliminate emotional response”. But I think our future may look like that only instead of getting rid of emotion it will be to not offend anyone.
Next up - transgender sailors kissing.
Any words of wisdom on the rape culture of islam?
Any why we are importing muslims whose religion tells them it is good to rape?
What he did was physical battery. And arguably sexual battery as well.
She was askin’ for it
No doubt in America’s mind about it
The Giver was all about that.
I thought nobody knew who those people in the photograph were.
Chase girls. The ones who like you will let you know. Ignore the SJW twits, their brainless and most aren’t who you’d want to date.
Look at the way her right leg is lifting. She was clearly enjoying the moment.
Feminist Magazine: Bill Clinton Isn’t Necessarily A Bad Guy If He Raped Juanita Broaddrick
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3460450/posts
... and the public school system is full tilt boogie perpetrating that direction
Good grief. Sooner or later, the SJWs who keep harping on junk like this will be fair game for some battery with a baseball bat.
If he was a Muslim, it would be OK!
More trashing of American history by the America-hating, commie libs. The commie piggies didn’t seem to have a problem 6 or 7 years ago when the Navy had two lesbians smooching at the dock when some ship returned back to port. They celebrated it and the “In Yo Face, America!” picture was vomited all over the news.
In the movie, during the V-J Day celebration, the nurse in Times Square is in the street, very happy, and out of nowhere, The Silhouette appears, grabs the nurse, bends her back and kisses her. The camera flashes, and the two kissing women become immortalized. And just then, an oblivious Sailor saunters on by looking for someone to celebrate with. But no one notices that guy and he just passes on.
I suppose the journalist would not consider this movie scene to be rape. It’s probably a consciousness-raising exercise is semiotic transference of the cultural gestalt between artistic mediums.
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