In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 4 May 2020 11:59:09 -0700 (PDT),
I'm not surprised.
I did try to find online the allegation that she wasn't' wearing panties
but I got nowhere. Did the poster here just make that up or quote some
worthless site?
People who talk about men who rape or otherwise abuse women say that, If
they've done it once, they've probably done it many times", yet when
there is someone with only one accuser, they never bring up the
converse, which is pretty much, If he's only accused of doing it once,
he probably didn't do it all.
Maybe that logic only works in one direction, when trying to blame men.
Others act like women never make false accusations.
And even about his playing with women's hair, I never hear anyone raise
the point that apparently that not a single one of them complained at
the time. If even one had, he'd have stopped with her and maybe with
the other.
The answer by some women is that he was the 2nd most powerful man in the
world and the women involved were afraid. a) IIUC most of the time
involved he was only a senator, not VP, b) Where did they get the silly
idea that the VP is the 2nd most powerful man in the world? "The VP
isn't worth a bucket of warm spit." Biden had more assignments than
John Nance Garner, but they could all be taken a way in an instant. But
even if his job was worth more than warm spit, he had less power than
100's of others in DC. And what would he do if a woman said, Please
leave my hair alone? Get her fired? Ridiculous. He would have left
her hair alone and concentrated on other women. It really says more
about women than about Biden. That some women are scared to stand up
for themselves. I know a woman with a Ph.D. in some science, and
because I only have a B.S, I'm impressed. I still am, but I thought
she'd have some self-confidence. Yet I saw bureaucracy run over her
without its even trying. Her passport was stolen iirc and she just
assumed she couldn't get another in time for a weekend trip she wanted
to take. She just assume she had to go in person to get her visa, when
in fact I, who as on vacation, didn't have work responsibilities like
she did, got it in less than 90 minutes. Maybe another reason I
thought this woman was tough than she is is that she is always doing the
reverse version of man-splaining. No matter what the topic is, even if
it's my personal reaction to things, things I know more about than she
does, she has an explanation for it. But I digress.
I"d like to know more about the various women who complained years later
that he played with their hair. Are they really as shy as they now say?
Are they really unassertive? Have they ever complained about some
other guy who did more to them or less to them than Biden? Is the worse
(sexual) thing that ever happened to them that Biden played with their
hair? If so, they got off pretty easy and if not, what happened the
other times?
On the People's Court, the guy in the hall puts his hand on every single
litigant. I don't know why no one complains, especially in this day and
age. If it were spontaneous, I'd not complain, but it's ever single
one. He seems to be showilng t hem where to stand, but why don't they
just put some footprints stickers on the floor and say to stand there?
And then there is the practice in the 30's and 40's moviews, and maybe
later, when the woman gets to go first but the man sort of pushes her
along, with his hand on her back at or just above her waist, as if she
stuck in the snow and can't get started without a push. I've never
understood that. And it's not because I don't think a man should touch
a woman, it's just this particular touching that seems, my favorite
word, stupid.
I remember now that my friend with the PhD was accosted, molested to
some degree, she didn't go into detail, at a park near her home when she
was 10 or 12 or 14. I don't think she gave me the age either. I'm sure
that had some effect, but how it would make her vulnerable to
bureaucracies I don't know. I think it more likely she'd been
intimidated by actual bureaucracies.