I don't think he was elected for that reason.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
But he very close to it, and that should scare everyone. We like to say that rape is a horrible crime, but we don't always act like it. Especially when it's a person of interest (athlete, actor, etc...)
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Replying to @HPluckrose
It's not about what crime is taken more seriously - it's that when comparing words to actions, we do not take rape as seriously as we say we do. Roman Polanski got a standing ovation at the oscars. He also raped a child. That's not a culture that takes rape seriously.
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Replying to @naamamarom
I don't think these examples of men succeeding despite credible accusations of sexual assault etc are representative of attitudes towards rape. Even murder is more socially acceptable.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @naamamarom
How could you take rape more seriously? There is already a special register, sentences similar to that for murder, an accusation can sink people utterly, in film it is always the sign of irredeemable evil whilst murder can be cool.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
"an accusation can sink people utterly" - but reality shows it doesn't, like roman polanski, trump, roy moore, r. kelly. They do represent a large part of our society - roy moore was very close to winning, almost half of the people who voted for him thought the accusations were..
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Replying to @naamamarom @HPluckrose
no big deal. How many accusations had trump had against him for sexual assault? He even bragged about it on tape. He still won. A lot of people voted for him - how is that not representative? R.Kelly had sex with 14 yrs old girl and people in the music industry still worked.....
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Replying to @naamamarom
Do you think that people voted for Trump because they were pro-sexual assault? Or could it have been for political reasons?
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I think that if they took sexual assault seriously they wouldn't have voted for him, that's the issue. You can't just say sexual assault is not that horrible because your favorite politican did it.
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I don't think anyone said it's not that horrible, did they? I think they were just willing to pretend it wasn't happening because they thought the individual was better for the country and their own interests than the other one.
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