gregtryin wrote:
Halvard wrote:
It is good to see that a right wing guy like you are really worried about women's rights, harassment and aggressive behavior of men.
Many conservatives should follow your example.
But sadly you will find that women's issues often follow political lines.
It is OK that FoxNews guys are sexist, but not liberal, and the other way around.
I am sure you are not hypocritical like that and that you started a lot of discussions regarding RogerA, BillO and other sexist behavior of any person no matter political view.
You lefties f'ckin amaze me. Do you think you have a monopoly on morality or something? This is the same old arrogant claim to the moral high ground that every damn lib I know jumps up on as soon as possible. As a conservative, I absolutely believe in women's rights, sexual harassment infuriates me, and 'aggressive behavior of men' isn't acceptable either. I also believe in equal rights under the law for ALL citizens whether they are black, brown, or white. Just about every other conservative I know feels the same way. Bill O'Rielly was a scumbag for what he did, but so was Bill Clinton...and Harvey Weinstein...and Bill Cosby. From the looks of things right now, we have an entire multi-billion dollar industry built on sexual harassment and trampling women's rights run by liberals that kick any conservatives out at the first inkling of contrary viewpoints. Do you think Harvey Weinstein is the ONLY guy in Hollywood using his power to take advantage of women? My bet is that it is an institutionalized way of doing business on casting couches all over Hollywood.
I also think we should have control over our borders. Does that make me xenophobic?
I believe in the rule of law and enforcement of those rules. Does that make me racist because all of you people have convinced yourselves black and brown people are unfairly treated by law enforcement?
Get help with your TDS, my friend.
Greg
#1. Politicians are the least self-aware people on the planet. Because this is so, it also makes them totally predictable and, thus, BORING. And I'd rather not waste time on them. Because they're BORING.
#2. Hollywood -- meaning the "artist"-class denizens that populate the place, like to hold themselves out as an elite, nearly god-like, class that's morally superior to all us yokels. I include Harvey Weinstein in this class. Before he morally ejaculated into the potted plants, that is. ;-)
Tinseltown has for many years presumed to criticize and chastise most of us out in the hinterlands (i.e. everyone east of I-5 and west of I-95) for our various and sundry faults, which are innumerable in their eyes. And the folks in that town really and truly believe it's their duty -- they, of course being the elite among us -- to instruct us and guide us. Because, after all, we really need a movie star to provide our moral education and help us learn the difference between right and wrong, amirite or amirite?
What a crock they all -- and I mean ALL -- are.
Meryl "I Had No Idea Harvey Weinstein Was A Creep" Streep? It's obvious she knew. And when it came time to choose between her carefully developed persona of Courageous Woman Who Speaks Truth To Power and her career, she came down squarely on the side of her career. They ALL knew and they ALL chose their career rather than to stand up to the kind of behavior that Weinstein -- just one among a legion of such creeps plying their trade in Hollywood -- believed was part of his birthright as a member of the Do As We Say, Not As We Do elite.
A flood of admissions from stars high and low within the firmament, that they were either aware ol' Harvey was running around Hollywood like a priapic jackanapes, or that they'd personally experienced the nearly fetishistic attentions of Weinstein, et al., attest to this. Jane Fonda says she knew and yet said nothing. Probably because, as she also knows, most of that town was eagerly participating in the exact same behavior, if the latest revelations gushing forth from the place are any indicator.
Like I've said; money, power, fame. They've got a very strong appeal, and most people will do anything to get them.
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