10-13-2016, 11:29 PM
(10-13-2016, 03:44 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: Difference between Trump and me ...
I did some locker room talk .... 35 - 40 years ago. I reached a point in life where at most, among male-only company, we still might talk a bit dirty but using euphemisms and definitely not describing ogre-like behavior. Most men leave that behind as part of the maturation process.
Trump is stuck in adolescence. I can understand why one might think he did a deal with The Devil - most people would have suffered many consequences for behaving like this as not only a grown man, but a friggin' 70 year old man!
You understate your difference from an elderly 'juvenile delinquent' who never grew out of his delinquency.
Donald Trump all but endorses a "rape culture" that offends liberals who recognize a woman's right to say no to unwelcome sexual approaches, but probably also Christian conservatives who wish to protect their wives, girlfriends, mothers, daughters, sisters, nieces, granddaughters, and grandmothers from sexual assault of any kind. Calling it "locker-room talk" is to exaggerate the exaggerated, immature machismo characteristic of rapists. Having been in locker rooms as a K-12 student and as a substitute school teacher as an adult, I have rarely heard "rape talk". I have heard plenty of denunciations of the 'sissy' qualities of some men, including me, but I have also heard disgust registered at any boys who discuss thinly-disguised rape as expressions of personal sexuality.
I can ensure anyone: foul language about male sexuality directed at women turns off women who have any self esteem.
OK, I am a sissy male... but I can't imagine any place less sexy than a male locker room.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.