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Is it really that hard to refrain from SAing someone? Or at bare minimum, not running for office if you have? The audacity of these candidates is mind-blowing.
Charismatic people are good at running for office and good at avoiding responsibility for things throughout their lives. We select for a trait that let's people get away with stuff.
It's a perfect example of the type of rape culture we have in the US.
When we take into account the fact that 1 in 4 women in the US have been sexually assaulted and 1 in every 6 women have been raped, then yes, it really appears to be hard to refrain from sexually assaulting people.
It would've been great if we hadn't rug swept this guy's past so hard.
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I think the disturbing reality is just that rape and SA is much more common than people think it is
It's really really infuriating that it seems to be an almost universal law that if someone is running for office they are exactly the wrong kind of person and should never be allowed to hold office.
Douglas Adams puts it in a more humorous way:
Yeah it's frustrating as fuck.
At the same time, there were so many massive red flags. And I was excoriated here for mentioning them.
Yes.
Is it easy to accuse someone? Yes. Does that mean the person did it? No. Does it mean they didn't? No.
Here I thought not SAing was easy. Huh?