No doubt there are some men who will be gleeful about this assault. There are still quite a few men insecure enough to think “well even if I could never achieve being President of Mexico, at least I can exert some kind of physical domination over an unconsenting woman! Go me!”
However, I think most people everywhere will be more disgusted than impressed.
My sister said President Scheinbaum should get some self-defense gadgets. My sister has this little noisemaker on her all the time. The idea is that you see some dangerous nut coming toward you so you pull out this battery-powered noisemaker. You pull on the inserted pin on the noisemaker and it blares at about 120 decibels. It rings so loudly that any assailant’s ears ring just horribly. The pin is reinsertable so my sister pulled it out and then pushed it back in afterwards. It was just deafening. I can’t quite yet find the brand but think it’s maybe a Robocopp Sound Grenade or something like that.
If you ignore what they said, what they said was reprehensible!
Why, Thx. Mr. Fish feet. You’re a prince. Or a frog? I forget which.
From what I understand, it’s not nearly as spicy as the women’s locker room. Men just don’t talk about sex as much as people seem to think.
I mean, given that she is the president, it would probably be more practical and logical to just beef up the number of bodyguards around her. If things have gotten to the point where a groper (in the future) starts groping the president and she needs to pull the pin on the noisemaker to alert her bodyguards or else the guards won’t intervene, then we have a massive failure of VIP security itself.
I’m not a drinker, but I’ve always been under the impression that drunkenness reduces inhibitions, it doesn’t give you urges you don’t already have. So logically I assume that groping random women is something he is normally inclined to do, and his drunkenness just reduced his judgement enough that he did it in public to an “actually important” woman.
I strongly doubt this is the first woman he’s groped.
And while making a public appearance, on live television no less.
You would know you’d creep your way into this thread.
I’ve been in rooms with lots of women yakking. I’m quiet and listen. It was mostly about kids, periods, recipes, money, periods and cramping. Their SOs, usually talking them up. Menopause and hot flashes. Oh, yeah and periods.
If that’s spicy…well you’re just weird.
He may have absolutely known she was the President. He may have been thinking, “I just grabbed the ass of the Queen Bitch of Mexico! I’M DA MAN!!!”
Because that’s how these assholes think. “Hey bitch, you slept your way to the top! Come suck MY dick!”
She did handle it with quiet grace. However, some poster above said she couldn’t punch an attacker on television. Actually, I think if she had decked the guy, her poll numbers would’ve skyrocketed.
Maybe this should go in a different thread, but I don’t get the “locker room talk” thing. I am in a men’s locker room a few times a week and this has been the case for 30’ish years. I don’t recall any sort of sexual talk during my locker room visits. Is the “locker room talk” something that happens in private country club locker rooms? A certain sport locker room (golf, tennis, soccer)?
My locker room visits are at rec centers and private gyms where you pay for membership. I’ve been going to my current gym for many years so I do know many of the guys in my area of the locker room and we do chit-chat, but it’s about bike riding, vacations, sports injuries, upcoming events we are training for, etc. No talk about women.
Curious to hear from other men about this phenomenon.
I think its more likely he was thinking was how macho it would be to boast to his friends that he groped the president. Asshole.
Well, if so, that was poor judgment, because I doubt he’s going to be hanging out at la cantina for quite a while. He can brag to his fellow prisoners, I guess.
@wguy123, your post gives me hope that men have cleaned up some of their nasty banter, at least in your area.
I’m not sure it’s commonplace, tho’.
I haven’t heard rude locker room talk since High School (1979).
In fact, I don’t hear much talk at all in locker rooms.
Even outside of locker rooms, I don’t think I’ve heard gross sexist stuff from any man in decades in real life.
I would like to point out that no one including the women did anything as it was happening. I assume the one person who did step in was security. Hell, one woman walked right behind him like, “Excuse me, trying to get through here.”
I’m so glad you haven’t heard it, in decades.
But…just today, like 20 minutes ago, we stopped for gas. Two guys on the opposite side, acting boisterous. As Ivy walked by one of the smacked their lips real loud.
Now, Ivy is a skinny, shortish 64 yo woman with Teacher/head nurse vibe. Dresses dumpy, don’t care style. Not the cat call type. At. All.
These things happen “everyday” to every women.
It’s not rape or assault but it’s still sexist and rude.
Mike Cooley, Drive-By Truckers
I believe you. And I agree it’s sexist and rude. Very rude. [well, I will quibble with “every day to every woman.” But I won’t dispute that it happens frequently]
I also think Beck hangs out in a particularly backward and ill-educated part of the country. She sees the worst of the worst of the backward-thinkers.
It’s a lot better where most of the population lives; the big cities and burbs. Still far short of the ideal of no random harassment, but decades beyond what happens at small town rural gas stations.