1. Don't touch anyone who is not very closely related to you unless it is to shake their hand.
2. Don't touch strangers unless it is to shake their hand, don't even put your other hand on their arm while you're doing it Don't hold on past two shakes like that ultimate creep, Trump.
3. Is that hard to understand?
While it's no guarantee that you won't be accused falsely, it would help if you were known as a hands-off type of guy.
Considering what Charlie Rose has admitted doing, and Louis C.K., and what Weinstein and Moore are accused of (I don't know how much Weinstein is contesting anymore), I think playing grab ass is wholly inappropriate and gross, and if that's the worst Al Franken ever did, he needs to be told to grow up.
ReplyDeleteAnd nothing more severe than that. I don't want to argue over what really happened or didn't, because these guys wandering around naked in front of colleagues and basically strangers (not close friends, but I have female friends from elementary school, and yeesh!) and masturbating and shoving hands down....., well, perspective, please.
Some things are immature (then isn't all comedy?); some things are sick. There is a difference.
True, all of it. I'm trying to think of how you could avoid the kind of accusation made during the Minnesota state fair picture taking.
DeleteMaybe it's a cultural thing but when the huggy, kissy stuff started as a supposed reaction to button down uptightness I felt very uncomfortable with it. And as I recall it was promoted through the world of show-biz where so many a hug and kiss was more done for the camera than the person being so used. I was brought up thinking it was a practice of respect to not touch someone else unless it was a medical or safety emergency. Given the potential of a period such as the one we are in, where the tiniest of incidents can turn into this kind of accusation by such as want to get on CNN, it's best to avoid all of that stuff.
I am constantly amazed at how the allegedly educated American public can't distinguish, or pretends to not be able to distinguish, between a consensual stage kiss and the kind of stuff Roy Moore and Harvey Weinstein are accused of. And most of those pretending to not be able to do that would seem to start with the media.
I should add, I still do feel uncomfortable with the huggy, kissy stuff and try to avoid it. It's my experience that the huggy, kissy type don't respect other peoples' feelings on that, having been told on TV that there's something wrong with people who have a sense of personal privacy.
DeleteYour point about the rampant immaturity in the world of show-biz is spot on. The kevlar-vest groping motion photo is a prime example of that. I'm not even aware of any actual accusation that he so much as touched the kevlar.