Bang on. I Believe there will be a trend where the vast majority of these cases will come out as true with some degree of corroborating evidence or admissions from the accused, but we are at a stage where every single person is being painted with the same brush not only to their guilt, but to the degree of their crimes/behaviour. You've accusations of rape and sexual abuse, or multiple systemic incidences of sexual harassment over decades, bundled in with people accused of touching someones bum once, or being fired from parliament for touching someones knee. It's not the right way of going about it, its lynch mob territory. is it fine for every 10 people who are genuinely guilty being punished/ousted that 1 potentially innocent person has their life/career ruined by the court of public opinion?
More serious cases don't excuse less serious cases.
Weinstein - Accused by 80 different women of sexual harrassment, sexual assault and rape.
Franken - Accused by one woman (who just happens to be a hard right conservative with a book coming out) of pretending to grope her tits (without actually touching her) and sticking his tongue in her mouth during a rehearsal kiss. He says he doesn't remember events this way, and has called for an ethics investigation.
I see why you put them together, as they're clearly exactly the same..
The really dodgy part is forcing a woman to perform the kiss during rehearsal. That's dodgy as feck, actors do run lines together, but things like kissing or groping aren't done until on stage.
Link please.
Oh, was that before or after she performed the routine onstage in front of an audience?
The picture shows him leaning over her posing for a photo. It also shows her wearing body armour and apparently asleep. THat is the photographic evidence, and trying to insinuate that something further could have happened is fairly disgusting. They were in a room with numerous other people (not least the photographer) and Franken posed for a dumb, frat boy photo. Stupid? Sure, but let's put it in the context of the actual trip.
Here's a shot of Ms Tweeden during the same USo show sexually assaulting the guitar player:
Is that sexual assault? Or maybe, just maybe is the USO show a deliberately sexualized performance designed to play up to sex-starved GI's away from home, and which Ms Tweeden was not only fully aware of but willingly took part in?
Of course none of this means that if Franken did grab her and forcibly kiss her against her will that he wouldn't have commited sexual assault. He most certainly would have. The problem however is that there are no other witnesses to the alleged assault, and some early signs that make it seem potentially dubious, not least the photographic evidence showing her enthusiastically participating in the kiss routine on stage that she now claims she refused to perform even in rehearsal.
Why don't you just be honest, and admit you put them together because its a cheap way to smear a liberal?
Because it's weird. They also don't use tongues, as Franken allegedly did.
