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Asherlee10 posted...

Cocytus posted...

Asherlee10 posted...

Cocytus posted...

It wasn't significant enough to go tell someone when it happened? But now that all these "brave" women have come forward AFTER someone high profile got busted, suddenly every women has a sex story about a man in power.

I don't know this to be true, but perhaps some of those women didn't want to be the one to bring down Franken which is what part of this movement represents. A lot of the victims have said things like, "I was told not to ruin so-and-so's career over one stupid mistake he did."

That similar thought could have played a role with these women. Franken was supposed to be fighting for minorities and was admired more than a lot of other politicians.

Asherlee10, I don't know a lot about you, but I know you're a girl. And I respect you as a CEgirl. But lemme ask you please, no offense, seriously, but if someone messed with you the wrong way, would you really not tell someone?

I don't think it's that simple, unfortunately. I've never been a position where I was threatened for exposing the truth about something that happened to me.

I can certainly empathize with those women who were threatened and not sure what to do. I can also understand that it becomes easier to expose the truth if you aren't alone.

Believe it or not I was in a similar situation at work that had to do with an administrator discriminating against me because she wanted me to be Catholic; she thought I was doing a bad job (teaching) and that Catholicism would improve my performance. as long as I listened to her and just nodded my head, my ratings went up. I realized that if I wasn't buying into this Catholic shit then I would be rated accordingly. Well, yeah, I was scared. I knew this was wrong. I knew I was being discriminated against. I never thought it would happen to me. But it was clear, and if I didn't say anything to the higher ups, it would just go on and be miserable. So I told my department head and the principal. Once I told, which took less than a week for me to report, the administrator who was discriminating against me and holding it against me in my performance was no longer allowed to even talk to me. She was assigned other duties. Point is, it was hard, I was scared, but it was the truth, it was happening, and I'd be damned if I wasn't going to tell anyone. So that's been my experience in a similar situation. It was hard and scary to tell, but more than necessary, so I did.

yemmy posted...

TC, how do you feel about Roy Moore and his accusers?

Same way I feel about all these accusers. Yeah, it sounds bad for him. But just because he's Republican doesn't mean it's ok for people to accuse him of something so heinous after a million years has passed and everyone presumes it's true just because it was in the media. He denied it, and no one believes him except his supporters or people that don't care either way.