The imagery and cultural politics of it, I mean. A friend writes:
It’s pretty weird that a white woman is accusing a black man of putting his hand up her skirt and trying to force her head into his lap, while her left-leaning lawyer suggests her client is credible because the client’s a Republican.
Strange days, indeed.
Charles Cosimano says: It is getting weirder by the day, but the way things are going, no one can tell what is going to come next. Romney may develop a personality.
JonF says: What I don’t understand is a certain sort of man who apparently assumes that all women want him. There are signals sent out about that sort of thing. Are these guys brain-damaged so they can’t receive them so they just try their luck with everyobne?
“a black man…putting his hand up her skirt and trying to force her head into his lap”
Just when we had him pegged as a passable summer-stock Othello, turns out all the while he was already working on what those of us fond of the Bawdy Bard might call his Reverse Hamlet.*
*Ophelia pain, Dear Reader; Ophelia, any time for that matter, if you’ll let me. Prior to consent, though, I’m more into sensual harassment than that of the sexual kind – the only cleanup you need to do with me afterward involves removing the box of chocolates, the sachet of potpourri and tub of bath salts, and Sarah McLachlan, Enya and Kate Bush CDs I leave, non-actionably enough, atop your desk each morning. I suggest Herman Cain, however retroactively, observe and learn.
Dmitri Aleksandrovich says: One thing is for sure. If this was Barrack Obama being accused of these advances toward white women many of the GOP cheerleaders on talk radio would be having a field day. However since Herman Cain is a Republican who’s willing to tow the GOP line they’re defending him and even calling the accusers “racist”.
I hate American politics.
I find it weirder that you and your friend are concerned about the races of the individuals involved. If the races were reversed, or you didn’t know what races they were, what would you and your friend be thinking about the incident?