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Trudeau groping allegations

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wor ... b4957bab0a

Yet another male feminist is actually a sleazy groping sex pest.

Imagine my shock.
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Skids wrote:https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1609155679207319&id=796085293847699
Good video, wrong thread?
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Remember, we must "Believe All Women". Unless, of course, the man is a progressive ally like Trudeau or Bill Clinton. Then the women are lying whores who should just STFU.
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^

I personally prefer the approach that everyone should be considered innocent until proven guilty and that just making allegations against a person and any resulting trial by media shouldn't change that, regardless of the gender of the persons involved.

Unfortunately, people choose to believe innuendo and allegations that suit or fit their personal biases and dismiss those that don't.
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
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David wrote:
Skids wrote:https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1609155679207319&id=796085293847699
Good video, wrong thread?
I guess it is. :D
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thesoretoothsayer wrote:Remember, we must "Believe All Women". Unless, of course, the man is a progressive ally like Trudeau or Bill Clinton. Then the women are lying whores who should just STFU.
Yeah, except that precisely no-one is saying anything like that. Nice straw man.
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David wrote:
thesoretoothsayer wrote:Remember, we must "Believe All Women". Unless, of course, the man is a progressive ally like Trudeau or Bill Clinton. Then the women are lying whores who should just STFU.
Yeah, except that precisely no-one is saying anything like that. Nice straw man.
Sure, not in Trudeau's case (yet). But I'm old enough to remember Gloria Steinem's infamous NYTs opinion piece where she basically excused Clinton's behaviour whilst victim-bashing his accusers. The piece has been scrubbed from the NYT archive (surprise!) but a nice commentary can be found here:
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainme ... es/545729/

On a smaller scale, here's an interesting article (if you can forgive the obvious political bias) where the standard feminist response to sexual assault allegations has been turned on its head because the accused is a feminist professor: https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/45846/
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