I've been widowed once, married twice. Both of my wives told me their stories of harassment. My late wife had her boss repeatedly try to put his hands on her, and pushed her to have sex, despite her being married and her telling him to stop.
I wanted to intervene, but she refused to let me, telling me “that’s just how men act,” meaning that wasn’t the first time she’d had it happen to her. This was 30+ years ago. My second wife was fired from her job as a cook for refusing to have sex with the crew.
They cooked up a vendetta against her and got her fired. The supervisor that fired her told her he knew what was going on, but there was nothing that he could do about it, and he had to fire her. This was also long ago, when harassment suits weren’t common.
When I first saw the Access Hollywood tape, I said to myself, “Trump is going to lose. No self-respecting woman would vote for this pig.” How wrong I was.
It disgusts me that men are still behaving this way, and still getting away with it. huffpost.com/entry/united-w…
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This is an oversimplification, but it serves to frame the discussion.
First, there were the KKK, white supremacists and neo-Nazis. These were so extreme, and (appropriately) elicited such a backlash, that they couldn’t attract members.
So they tried toning it down. They said, now we are just white nationalists. We don’t hate black people, we just think that each race should be with their own. And since America is majority white, that means that should be white country.
A subset of this is neo-Confederates and secessionists, who think that the South should bring back the Confederacy or the red states should form their own white countries.
The public wasn’t buying what they were selling, so they toned it down some more.