Yeah...
Yeah.
But we can't stop holding our guys to a certain standard just because their guys have no standards.
That said Franken deserved better, and it's pointless to claim the higher ground here because they've made it clear that they don't have a bottom. They can always go lower. They have no shame. Like... pathologically. They are incapable of experiencing shame as a normal person understands it.
I mean, Beetlejuice 2 is coming out soon, so this might all be some brilliant viral ad performance piece.
Al Franken resigned for way less.
Are you talking about "Mafia!", the 1998 Lloyd Bridges and Jay Mohr mob movie spoof?
Less fake...
People who abuse others only to hide behind fame and religion do not need us to be better. They need to be made an example of.
Don't be glib. If it came out that my oldest friend wqs not only a rapist, but also used his fame and religion to silence the victims and avoid prosecution... AND I was involved with an organization with the express purpose of stopping sex abuse... I'd absolutely tell that friend to pound sand.
There were multiple times when I learned that friends of mine were sexually assaulted, some of those times were by people I considered friends. There's zero chance that I'd do anything to "put in a good word" for the rapists I once called friends, because their actions in my company have ZERO baring on how they acted in private.
Tl;Dr: If you're vouching for the upstanding nature of a convicted rapist based on your interactions when he wasn't being a duplicitous rapist... that says more about your ignorance to how terrible that person can be as opposed to the good works you saw from the rapist when they weren't raping. You're also a victim.
We know, we just don't care.
Back in late 2000, my girlfriend and I broke up. She moved out of our apartment and back to her hometown. I was feeling kinda down and one of my friends invited me to a rave the next night. I didn't really have any interest, it never seemed like my kind of scene. But I didn't have anything else going on, so I went with him. He ended up buying ecstasy, which I had never done before either.
That's literally the night that changed the entire trajectory of my life. I spent the next decade traveling all over America, going to parties, hanging out with people I met on a message board. I ended up shacking up with a girl I met on the board for a few years. I made friends that I still have today.
My 20's were a blur of parties and substances, but I can trace a direct line from what happened that night to where I am today.
Load up another bong of weed, eh?
You don't say!
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