Red Mosquito

Bi_3 wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:"Read my lips....yeah, read my lips...just like that..."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/art ... 1e2bd7c38d

I get the impression that no one is freaking out about this because everyone's grandparents say or do inexplicably bad things as they start the final decline.

Or maybe putting your hand on someone's waist and telling them a "dirty" joke isn't most people's definition of sexual assault.

Bi_3 wrote:He changed his story to admit groping. Ugh.

"Do you want to know who my favorite magician is? David Cop-a-Feel!"

tragabigzanda wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:Is this a generational thing? It's kinda blowing my mind that people (in public positions no less) think that touching or even harassment of this nature is in any way acceptable.

Again, I just think that many people are familiar with elderly loved ones who go a little batty towards the end of their lives. I don't think for a second that HW was an outward misogynist in his younger days (his stance on abortion is another matter...). Seems to me that in a political climate that doesn't seem to value civility, it's somehow refreshing that the implied understanding is "Jesus christ, the guy is old and going to die soon, he probably doesn't even recognize what he's doing, let's just let him go peacefully."

My maternal grandparents never displayed any outward signs of bigotry in most of the years I knew them, but some pretty wild stuff would come out of their mouths in their last couple years. I didn't hold it against them; thoughts are like butterflies, just floating around. I can't fault them for letting a racial epithet slip out a few times before they died, and I wouldn't try to shame an elderly decrepit man who touched some woman's butt and and made a poor attempt at humor. Have we really become so overly sensitive that this feels threatening to people?