tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841841084671666214.post790422909022971049..comments2024-03-11T02:26:38.210-05:00Comments on Always Drunk: If I Said What I MeantChuck Baudelairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07856142744531037691noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841841084671666214.post-2395417768701326132017-12-09T11:45:38.970-06:002017-12-09T11:45:38.970-06:00To be honest, I never heard of Al Franken before e...To be honest, I never heard of Al Franken before everybody started talking about him all of a sudden.Bill the Butcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08436195659154078021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841841084671666214.post-72331016918385977482017-12-09T00:15:07.156-06:002017-12-09T00:15:07.156-06:00As an old (getting very close to my 70th birthday)...As an old (getting very close to my 70th birthday) white (sort of) male, I think you have every right to tell this coworker to take his crap and shove it where the sun don't shine. Yes, I was a US Marine and did my time in that vile Vietnam war, but I was taught by Dad to respect all other people, women in particular. I was brought up to NOT ever be mean to women, not to hit them, not to demean them. Now, if you pick a fight with me, all best are off. <br />My late wife of 24 years had her opinions and I may have disagreed with her at times, but I always respected her right to think for herself. Not all of us males who are of European decent are sex crazed animals. Some of actually DO respect women for their brains and ideas/opinions. The old saying about a few bad apples spoiling the barrel applies.<br />By the way, I never thought Franken was funny and in my opinion SNL is/was never as food as many said it is/was. I saw them as having a good idea for a 3 minute skit and trying to drag it out for 5 plus minutes. After the second, or third season, if I am being over generous, that show went down the toilet and stayed there. Franken is a fraud, I never saw him as being a real leftist. But then I am an old sarcastic SOB.Kronkats Kornerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15356981317059108859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1841841084671666214.post-24688459969600662882017-12-08T09:00:52.772-06:002017-12-08T09:00:52.772-06:00Would he have listened?
I'm pretty sure my ex...Would he have listened? <br />I'm pretty sure my experience is only the tip of the iceberg, but all too often I hear men like me say, "Why are we only hearing about this now?" <br />And, speaking from my experience, my answer is, we're not. My entire life I've known women who were assaulted. Some of them didn't speak up, but others did. And all too often the ones who did were dismissed, ignored, or told to be quiet. <br />If we--and by "we" I mean white males like me--think we're only just hearing about this now it's because we haven't been listening. <br />Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10320886074658710855noreply@blogger.com