Thursday, November 3, 2016

It's not about party, but it's about human rights

For the women whose hands and heads i have held and cradled and for those other women whose have done the same, no man has the right to touch you without your consent, or to continue touching you when you say "stop".
When a man sees a delicious piece of chicken parmigiano on a plate with sauce steaming and cheese melting does he believe that because it looks good and he wants it, he has the right to grab what's not his from the plate that's not his?  Neither does he have the right to brag about, or commit the criminal offense of sexual attack on a woman.  It is a crime.
A man bragging about Walking  into a room full of teenage girls undressing infuriates me. Being the owner of a pageant doesn't give anyone that right.  I'm quite sure their fathers, brothers, uncles, grandparents, mothers and sisters were infuriated, too.  It's disgusting.  No one who leaves a woman feeling helpless and alone by calling her a liar when she summons the courage to complain about being inappropriately touched, deserves a leadership position.  No one who commits the crime of touching a person without their permission deserves to be a leader in this country. NO ONE who brags about humiliating someone's daughter, wife, or mother by unwanted sexual contact should be president of the United States of America. 
I just had to say it on behalf of all the women who have been victims.  It's not funny.  It's not fair.  It's not acceptable. Fathers hold your daughters close.

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