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In reply to the discussion: A woman called CNN and said Franken touched her butt [View all]InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,134 posts)70. I don't care what party a woman is registered to or who they voted for...
Last edited Tue Nov 21, 2017, 10:23 AM - Edit history (1)
there's no excuse for grabbing a woman's ass. You can demean them in other ways, obviously, but improper, unwanted sexualized contact is WAYY THE FUCK out of bounds!!
Joking about grabbing women's butts is also clearly over the line. Sorry, but that's just me.
Again, this is irrespective of what Franken may or may not have done in this particular instance, or what you think the punishment, if any, should be if he did do it.
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It is a photo...and please tell me you don't believe that Franken played grab ass with this silly
Demsrule86
Nov 2017
#244
No worries Demsrule... ironically, my comments were written precisely with women like you in mind...
InAbLuEsTaTe
Nov 2017
#249
It sounds like she is super-conservative because one of the comments she got on that photo
LisaL
Nov 2017
#32
Possible, but the fact that she contemporaneously documented in 2010 is interesting.
VermontKevin
Nov 2017
#39
Sounds like she expected Al to do the same thing as the republican she took the photo with did,
LisaL
Nov 2017
#54
I note that the Facebook interaction with her sister in 2010 where she describes the incident
VermontKevin
Nov 2017
#57
There are private investiation companies that specialize in social media and sexual assult
hexola
Nov 2017
#56
She told her mother, father, husband at the time, and wrote about it on Facebook too.
VermontKevin
Nov 2017
#68
She got a reaction from the photo that they were too close to each other, not two bibles apart.
LisaL
Nov 2017
#85
From what I understand, she posted the pix in '10 but said nothing about any groping
brush
Nov 2017
#87
Hope she or someone has a screen grab of that comment from 2010 or it just a he said/she said.
brush
Nov 2017
#91
I got that, but a screen grab of what's only visible to her facebook friends with some kind of...
brush
Nov 2017
#93
Me too. It seems clearly sarcastic to me. It isn't a serious claim that she posted on Facebook -- it
anneboleyn
Nov 2017
#149
Yes, a cropped photo. Where is the rest of it and what does it show? Trump STILL not being
anneboleyn
Nov 2017
#165
I do not believe Franken played grab ass with that woman at a fair with her husband there...she is a
Demsrule86
Nov 2017
#122
Look, I'm not making a judgment until more facts come out, but what is irrefutable at this
VermontKevin
Nov 2017
#156
Her alleged "totally molested" statement that she posted in 2010 proves she's full of shit
Hassin Bin Sober
Nov 2017
#204
Making silly jokes, like the ones here, about grabbing a woman's ass are SO not funny!!
InAbLuEsTaTe
Nov 2017
#55
Gee, let's just see... goin' down the list... ahhh, the very 1st post in response...
InAbLuEsTaTe
Nov 2017
#78
No one should play grab ass with anyone, male or female, if they don't want it to come back on them.
Hassin Bin Sober
Nov 2017
#148
Um, nobody is joking about "playing grab ass." We also obviously respect women on DU. But continuing
anneboleyn
Nov 2017
#151
There is an allegation along with hyperbolic banter. NOTHING proven. When this woman says "I was
LBM20
Nov 2017
#238
Exactly. Thank you. We are eating our own. Trump is still skating by w/out ANY serious media
anneboleyn
Nov 2017
#159
First person Lindsay Menz tweeted is Liz Wheeler of TrumpTV (OANN) on the 16th.
octoberlib
Nov 2017
#119
It's like mass hysteria, with multiple abuse allegations flying around about multiple people,
LisaL
Nov 2017
#30
document what they were standing close she decided he was a 'molester' ...you want to believe that
Demsrule86
Nov 2017
#125
There were rumors on Twitter a couple of days ago about a second woman coming forward.
femmocrat
Nov 2017
#71
The Republicans are trivalize a serious issue and some Democrats are acting so extreme that
Jim Beard
Nov 2017
#167
The rule that I follow is that I don't touch a person unless they invite me to.
Blue_true
Nov 2017
#183
My response is that people shouldn't grab people's rear ends without their permission
oberliner
Nov 2017
#154
"Menz posted the photo with Franken on Facebook at the time, on August 27, 2010."
Justice
Nov 2017
#77
There is a thread going, where OP is suggesting that's it is too risky to nominate a man,
LisaL
Nov 2017
#84
She can't possibly be the only woman who took a picture with him at the state fair . Wonder
lunasun
Nov 2017
#142
Franken seems to have some kind of odd predilection for future Trump supporters.
octoberlib
Nov 2017
#194
I could call CNN with a copycat story and it would be on the air within the hour.
Vinca
Nov 2017
#100
Thank you! When Franken is banned from public establishments we can start equating.
kcr
Nov 2017
#126
It's not that the accuser is wrong. It's that the accusation is trivial, given...
LAS14
Nov 2017
#250
Baloney...it was a picture at a fair...you stand close together ...that is ridiculous...another
Demsrule86
Nov 2017
#152
Your BS antenna do go up on the first one with Roger Stone though? Thx in advance
uponit7771
Nov 2017
#161
With her husband standing right in front of them ?! OK, waiting for Franken's reply
uponit7771
Nov 2017
#158
Yes, and "touch" is not what she's describing she's saying he "grabbed" her ass and groped her.
uponit7771
Nov 2017
#208
Yeah, if it was a squeeze and not just a touch or someone putting their hands in the wrong
uponit7771
Nov 2017
#222
I will have to go back to folding my arms in elevators and not holding a door open for women....
Jim Beard
Nov 2017
#173
Well good for you but I was referring to the 1980's where there was a surge of radical fe
Jim Beard
Nov 2017
#216
Radical anything is typically prone to excess, that is the idea of radical. nt
Blue_true
Nov 2017
#221
I wish DU didnt have people who instantly believe people with rightwing ties and
Eliot Rosewater
Nov 2017
#176
I just look at it this way-I would have never voted for Moore with or without accusations.
LisaL
Nov 2017
#210
While I think this could be a hit job, I am holding my judgement until all evidence is in
geardaddy
Nov 2017
#199
You can tell by the expression on her face she really shocked and appalled by it nt
doc03
Nov 2017
#219
you would think decades of tv and radio working with women lots would come forward now
mucifer
Nov 2017
#251
Well it sure is convenient that a guy who moves in liberal circles for decades
Kentonio
Nov 2017
#240