Posted on 11/16/2017 10:28:57 AM PST by ifinnegan
Yes, it’s true. I was stalked and harassed by Al Franken. I will have details @MediaEqualizer shortly.
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Above is tweet from Melanie Morgan.
I goofed in my earlier post. I meant to say that I would not be surprised if these ladies were indeed paid off by Allred.
Listen asswipe - I was sexually assaulted by my uncle as a child and was scared into secrecy. When I finally told my mother she didn’t believe me at first and that was like being molested all over again. I never told another living soul again until I was in my late 50s. It totally had a negative effect on my life until I “got my voice” and was able to discuss it and be believed about it. Unless it’s happened to you, you don’t have a clue.
I just listened to an interview with the woman Franken groped. Franken did that on the plane on the way back? After she had told him to knock it off? Seems to me that Franken wasn’t being funny with that grope. He was getting even, ridiculing, the woman who told him off...
I’ve read before of some of your tragic life events. I am truly sorry for what happened to you. And now as you explain how and why you kept silent - I understand. I really do.
And perhaps some of these “me too” stories - especially the ones making claims against Judge Roy Moore are as painfully honest as your story.
But I doubt it.
I hope and pray that you find some contentment - some peace with what you’ve suffered. Just as I hope those who have sided against the truth with Gloria Allred will get what they deserve.
Keep in mind....when Billybooboo got lewinskied, his own wife....the ambitious feminist Hillary..... put on a full court press defense.
Lewinsky was tarred as a stalker.
Hillary said it never happened....it was the VRWC’s fault.
Her political ambitions came first.....Hillary inveigled her right hand man George Stephanopoulos into the Bimbo Eruption Team.
George has never been confronted to explain his anti-woman actions as a ranking member of Hillary’s Bimbo Eruptions team.
Maybe you will take the word of another freeper. I am past retirement age. When I was in my 20s, 30s and 40s, "passes" were very common and there was literally nothing a woman could do about it through the civil authoriites back in the day before the development of sexual harrassment lawsuits (which are expensive and harrowing, by the way). Either you had a famiily member have a "talk" with the person, or if you had no such support system, you had to leave the job, the church or the rental property where these assaults took place. For instance, when I was 27, my landlady's husband let himself into my apartment with her pass-key, grabbed me, and forced his tongue into my mouth. I screamed and threatened to tell his wife, who lived downstairs. Fortunately, he left.
The same thing happened when I owned my own home and my husband worked long hours—a neighbor came over to "borrow a cup of sugar for his wife" and grabbed me and forced a tongue kiss and copped a feel. He outweighed me by 150 lbs and was an active member of the mafia. Luckily, he was afraid of my telling his wife, and he also left. Who was I going to call, knowing he could have me or my dog killed, my car trashed, my windows broken, my house robbed? So he spread rumors around the neighborhood that I was a lesbian, and all his little punk nieces used to yell that at me on the street in front of my child, in an otherwise wonderful Italian Catholic city parish with the huge church on the corner.
These are just two of the multiple, multiple incidents that happended at least once a year without warning from employers, neighbors, a pastor, or friends/relatives of close friends or of my husband—people you just never expected would take advantage. My husband's boss. My boss. My boss's important client. The husbands of other couples while getting you alone for a moment in the kitchen practically right in front of everyone else at a dinner party. Yes, I was good looking, but dressed modestly and, during many of these episodes over the years, was also married. It didn't seem to matter.
In many cases, the woman is blamed, no matter how unsolicited the groping had been. Even women's own parents from the former generations would not defend their daughters against authority figures like Dad's boss, a pastor, a teacher or a coach. They simply went into denial and blamed their daughter—or son—for causing them an uncomfortable thought. There are some men who are so spineless, they become jealous and punitive of their wives if the wife received unwanted passes from their husband's boss, relatives or friends.
Why women are coming out with a spate of complaints now is that finally, there is twitter and the pressure of social media, and the takedown of some powerful men. So there is a temporary feeling of strength in numbers that didn't exist before.
Remember that women are often punished at work, in socializing and in the the family for being too pushy, too unfeminine, too serious. As a result, many women are raised not to know that they have an option to respond forcefully to a disgusting unsolicited grope or sloppy unwanted tongue kiss. For some respectable, married professional men whom you would never suspect, the idea of forcing his hands or tongue on a stiffly resistant woman is a turn-on that they presumably take home to their wives later on, even if they never push it as far as a rape of their employee's wife or their wife's close friend. Other serial cheaters are just sampling around to see who will give in and sneak around with them.
I was one of the lucky ones who did not get raped or beaten when I rejected someone; but only because I am an assertive person and was raised with a father and brothers. Many women are not, and are terrified by an assault by someone bigger and stronger than themselves. And yes, someone putting his hands on one's breasts, butt, inner thigh, waist, lower back, neck, face, ears, head or hair is very intrusive and if unwanted, it is an assault.
This is the best way to soften the penis of a sexually aggressive male....keep this in your reference file.
When the guy comes onto you, simply say, “What makes you think you’ve got what it takes.”
I’m sorry the pain you went through as a child has blinded you to the meaning and intent of my very reasonable comment and has left you with nothing but a bitter insult.
Please. Continue on with your therapy. I hope you someday find the help you need. In the meantime - avoid embarrassing yourself as you did.
I agree with you both but I think this ‘cry rape’ thing needs to go full blown in order for it to become neutralized.
Thank you for that and your continual kindness.
I only wrote that as a *possible* explanation for some of the women.
I hate to say it, but I put *nothing* beneath the Dems, as far as “strategies” to destroy Trump, any one who supports him and inevitably, all of us.
However, I wish upon anyone who would *lie* about such things, a horrible and swift judgement.
Just now read your post. Read mine at #83. Same as your’s - an uncle and was totally afraid to say anything. Lived with it for years...grrr
A hard slap across the face or, if that does not work, a knee to the groin is far more effective.
Thank you for your testimony, Salamander. Many “handsy”, entitled men do not realize that sexual harassment is a crime of opportunity and abuse of power that is more titillating to the abuser than the actual sexual contact. It is at base a cowardly betrayal and a theft.
I suspect that's where the smear campaign against Moore originates.
Please see my post 85. I offer you my same regrets and am sorry for what you went through.
Please. Please understand my comments in post 2 are not applicable to true victims. Especially victims who were children when that abuse happened.
I posted comment # 2 as a kneejerk reaction to the many women making “me too” claims. The women with an agenda, the women hiring Gloria Allred, the women chasing that hundred dollar bill down the trailer park.
I know and understand how and why women will not or can not report these abuses when it happened. But my caustic comment in post 2 was not directed at them.
I wish I could hug you!
I didn’t ‘find my voice’ until I came here.
FReepers know more about my life than 99% of my blood relatives.
You are all more a family to me than they are.
Until I joined FR, only my HS boyfriend and my husband knew the details of this, since they had to deal with the collateral damage it did to me.
You all know how much I love my dogs...and my dogs were the threat he used against me.
Back then, before I got the Dobermann who put an end to his reign of terror, I only had a little Poodle who followed me everywhere.
I lived right across the field from my gramma’s house, where a lot of the abuse occurred and she always went to gramma’s with me.
*Sometimes*, she’d take off on her own and cross the field to visit gramma, alone.
He knew that and I lived in terror that he’d kill her...so I shut up for a whole year, until I told my mom, for all the good that did.
But when the Dobermann showed up when I was 15, it all ended.
He was terrified of that dog and that is why I’ve had them, ever since.
They were, and are my dark guardian angels.
Nah he wasn’t coming on to me. I know that because we disliked each other. He was just trying to be ‘cool’ but instead was stupid. I said......did you seriously just say that to me?! How stupid can you be? And I turned around and walked out.
Not being believed is not unusual......a TV segment aired a woman beating herself up b/c she did not believe her own child.
Seems she remarried after a bitter divorce....the new guy was so attentive to her children.....she loved that about him.
Later her young daughter told her he came into her bedroom at night to molest her.
The mother laughed it off....b/c her new husband was sooooo loving and kind....he would NEVER do that.
Lesson learned here is that these pedos are very charming and cnvincing .......they’ll wine and dine a woman with an eye on her youngsters,....boys and girls.
Because serial sexual abusers pick targets and situations the same way child abusers do -- they look for someone vulnerable, like the wife of their new employee, their own employee, their daughter-in-law with a new baby who would rather die than break up the family, etc. Melanie Morgan, in telling her story now, is giving support to the woman who told her story and was photographed being groped by Franken.
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