Well, I'm also not implying that you're a water carrying stooge for a self proclaimed (we do have that one video) sexual harrasser who backed an alleged (with lots of consistent allegations) child molester, but you know, I'll let everyone else make their own opinion. That's how it works right? Since I totally didn't say it directly, it's cool.
Also, I know I'm relatively new to this forum, but there are several people in this claiming to hate having to defend the trumpster fire, yet they are pretty consistent about it. Kinda makes it seem like you don't hate it so much as you hate having to admit that you still support such a horrible human being, but you don't want to say that part out loud....
I truly detest Trump. He's given me and the world plenty of reasons. He implied that Gillibrand is the sort of person who would do anything to get what she wants. I can see why some people would think that he was implying a willingness on her part to perform sex acts. I see even bigger reasons why many are crying that he attacked her honor and called her a whore.
Those are not the same thing. I don't think he called her a whore. I think it is politically expedient for Gillibrand and her supporters to claim he did, that it is obviously what he meant. I think it's pretty cynical, false outrage being used to stir what Gillibrand hopes is her base. I think Trump is laughing his head off on his golden toilet. Who honestly doesn't think if he meant to say that she was a (literal) whore, he would have used even clearer language. As far as her being a political whore? I think he has a great point. As far as I can see, that's exactly what she is.
I realize he sits in the oval office but honestly, why give him that much attention?
Surely there are better things to be concerned about.
These statements don't happen in a vacuum. In our society, saying certain things about a woman carries certain implications.
A man like Trump with Trump's attitudes about women is not going to be unaware of that. He knew damn well what he was implying, and Trump's defenders know damn well what they are denying.
Oh, I totally agree that Trump is not beyond implying that a woman offered sexual favors in return for compensation. But I believe that he would be much more direct than he was. He lacks the mental capacity to use anything approaching subtlety.
Even if someone else wrote the tweet (which is not impossible and given that he didn't outright call her a whore, there's a greater than 5% chance someone else wrote or edited it), don't you think the real point of that tweet was to manufacture outrage and to distract the population from the real horrors that are being committed right now, every single minute since that Jabba the Hut creature stepped into office?
I also think that there are more than one kind of whore. I don't think that Gillibrand is the kind that would exchange sexual favors for compensation of any kind from Trump. But I do think she's a kind of whore. Just not the sex kind.
Also, if we women are going to be women and not dainty little girls who need to be protected, the correct response of a person innocent of any of the implications in Trump's tweet about Gillibrand would be derisive laughter and a long, hard stare. If she cannot command herself well enough to convey such, she does not deserve her office.
Seriously, women cannot simultaneously assert their equal status with men and also claim special status that 'every one knows that Trump meant sex because that's what it means when we talk about women doing 'anything.' I don't mean that and frankly, no one I know means that, even some pretty awful people I am acquainted with.
The way to assert your equality is to behave as though you are equal, not like you must be protected from every inferred insult tossed your direction. FFS, she's in politics. On the national level! I mean, if she called Trump a cocksucker in return, no one would think she meant he actually performed the act of fellatio on Putin. We all know he does metaphorically and don't need to say it out loud.
Would twitter shut down an account if someone called Trump a cocksucker? Would they get a special visit from the Secret Service?
Asking for a friend....
