"Honestly, after a lot of years of research into how memory works, it's is genuinely possible they don't remember, because they didn't care or consider it a problem at the time.
Their brain never wrote the incidents to long term memory because they did not register it as important information.
It's actually pretty common with incidents of sexual abuse and harassment. The person on the receiving end tends to remember even seemingly irrelevant details, like what music was playing or what kind of pen was on the desk, because the brain went into trauma mode and just counted *everything* as critically important detail (or in some cases blanked it all out equally).
But the assailants? They aren't going to remember the details any more than they will remember what they had for lunch 3 years ago.
It's just not important to them. They don't care about their victims any more than they care about the stranger they bumped into on the sidewalk that morning. They know they did it, but that's about it.
Not the case for all instances of course. Often a person knows what they are doing is assault and remembers every detail. But some of these guys are so entitled they do this all the time and it's mundane."
~A FACEBOOK COMMENT
ON SEXUAL BLACKMAIL & LEVELS OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT
Al Franken is certainly no Donald Trump or Roy Moore, but he may be a Casey Affleck and he's definitely a Ben Affleck or worse.
Franken's fellow congressmen drove him out of his job over Level 1, Level 2 or Level 4 sexual harassment. And that may not be fair as Level 10-ers and above (rapists) have yet to be called to answer for their crimes. But I am certain that part of the reason congressmen did so is because they were not sure that some level 10 accusers would come forward in the future.
And they couldn't be sure because the memory of the oppressor functions as described at the top. Furthermore, somebody took responsibility for Level 2 or 3 sexual harassment one time because there's a picture can't actually be trusted when if he should say during the ethics investigation,
"No more women are going to come out of the woodwork and accuse me of sexual harassment."
I'm disappointed that Franken, Donald Trump's most outspoken critic, is gone. But I'm glad Franken the serial sexual harasser is gone.
When a is man capable of saying eight different damn women are "mis-rememebering" when there's no way he'd say that "mis-remembering" crap about 8 men, we all oughta be glad he's gone.
And by the way, one woman wrote about him groping her buttocks on her facebook page in 2010. Did her "mis-remembering" take place 10 seconds after the butt grab happened or after she told her husband or what?The sexism in men that aren't trying to recover themselves is galling. The unacknowledged sexism in men that are trying to be allies and advocates for women is maddening.
And some of the male journalists that are about 10 seconds from calling the Sexual Harassment Firings and Resignations "a witch hunt" deserved to be assaulted in face by an open palm.
All of this makes me wonder what Franken thinks of Alabama voters dismissing the eight or nine women accusing Roy Moore because those women might be "mis-remembering" too.
To be honest, I'm actually surprised that Franken didn't use Trump's words "witch hunt" by the end of his 11 minute resignation speech.
Another link to the videohttp://www.cnn.com/2017/12/07/politics/al-franken-resigns-analysis/index.html
Franken offered no apology in his resignation speech after over-apologizing multiple times a day after his first accuser came forward.
Hmmm?
A suspicious person, such as myself, might wonder if FRANKEN KNEW there were half a dozen or so more women out there --that he knew he'd sexually harassed at level 1 or level 2 or level 3-- that he needed to beg IN CODE to not come forward and embarrass him out of a job.
But they did anyway. Too bad, so sad for Al.
At one point, I was wondering if he could have stayed on after apologizing and an ethics investigation for low level sexual harassment.
But he put his hands on a woman which falls in MY definition of sexual assault, even though it's low level. And if he truly can't remember when he put hands on women without permission, then there are too many things in the gray zone
...that he thinks of as "nothing."
And if he put "hands on" a woman knowing there would be no repercussions even if she complained, then he was tacitly doing the sexual blackmail thing.
If a congressman remembers and knows for sure his harassment and/or assault never went past words etc, then he can stick out an ethics investigation no matter how upset his colleagues get and get back to the business of getting an unqualified president out of office.
But if he doesn't remember....
And if he's put his hands on women and still doesn't remember...
Um...
Buh-Bye Al
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