To normal people, yes
Trump says it’s such a ridiculous, made-up story. Just ridiculous!
Donald Trump called a writer’s claims that he raped her at a Manhattan department store “the most ridiculous, disgusting story,” testifying in a deposition shown in court Wednesday that the allegations were “made up” and that the assault never happened.
Lawyers for accuser E. Jean Carroll played about 30 minutes of excerpts from the former president’s deposition, including his emphatic denial of the longtime advice columnist’s accusation that he attacked her in the mid-1990s in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room.
It does seem like an odd story, for sure. And yet…
…we’ve all heard him saying “You can grab them by the pussy.”
He said it. He said it voluntarily, chatting with some tv flunkies he felt like impressing. He said “You can grab them by the pussy,” which implies that he knows this because he’s done it. If it’s such a “ridiculous” story why did he tell it about himself, unprompted?
I’m not at all sure it does sound like a ridiculous or odd story. Sure, it’s not how people picture rapes as happening, but I recall a few years ago a man found guilty in two rape trials. In the first, it was alleged he visited a friends house. When told by the friends wife that the guy was out for a couple of hours he proceeded to say something along the lines of “I’ve always fancied you” and raped her. When she made a complaint another female acquaintance came forward with a very similar account. In a recent rape trial in Christchurch a man has been found guilty of 15 rapes and sexual assaults on women. In many of those he simply followed them into the toilets at the bar he worked in and raped them (alcohol certainly involved and in some cases he had roofied them). point is, a lot of men feel really really entitled to get sexual gratification with any women that appeals and where and whenever they think they’ll get away with it.
[I tried to use your Contact button to ask this, but it isn’t working for me]
Would you mind if, on one of your future posts, I submit a comment with an excerpt from an essay I plan to have published later this summer? It’s about the limits of tolerance and intolerance, with a section about how I try to navigate the trans issue.
I wouldn’t mind at all!