Posted on 09/02/2016 6:46:19 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Yet another iconic image that has to be tarnished by PC.
I see there are >60 comments already.
My question is -
Have her complaints through the years been ignored by everybody, or has she changed her ‘man-handled, groping, roughly kissed’ complaints (relatively) recently?
OK, now I go read the whole discussion.
——has she changed -—
More than likely, she’s dead
Libs wouldn’t complain if it were a statue of two male sailors kissing. I’m sure one is in the works.
You're kidding, right? Maybe nowadays with all this PC crap forced on society by the Marxist Left. But back then it was just a guy and a girl kissing. No big deal. An innocent incident.
He didn't "rape" her. He didn't assault her. He didn't take her clothes off. He didn't beat her up or rob her. He didn't even physically harm her. He just frickin' kissed her. And then moved on.
To reach back 70 years ago to a momentary incident of enthusiasm and exuberance on the part of the sailor, is really scrapping the bottom of the barrel for this blogger. And to attempt to rewrite history and calling this rape, tells us two things. The guy is liberal. And the guy has some identity issues of his own.
That is what is wrong with the political correctness that has been forced down this society's throat. It makes even innocent events crimes, where before there was none. Innocent interaction between people is now considered criminal instead of just socializing. Everybody seems to be offended about anything and everything today. Bullsh*t to that idea. Get a life.
BFD! It was 1945, the war was over, the boys were coming home. 10,000,000+ boys after 4 years of hell were entitled to let off a little steam. In the 40’s we had new years eve parties where everyone went around kissing each other. It was normal at the time, it was part of being the greatest generation and compared to today they were freer than we are. There wasn’t as much crime or rape in those days, if there were street murders, it was usually the mob cleaning up their own. If it was a rape, it made the front page of the daily newspaper. Most women of the time would have appreciated the attention from a serviceman, and would not really mind since it was in celebration of the war’s end. I was in my pajamas at home and only had a noise maker from new years to celebrate, no pretty girls were there to kiss me, just a bunch of mom’s waiting for their boy’s return from Europe and the Pacific. There was a lot of activity outside on the street and all around the borough when the news broke at around 4 a.m..
If she'd been terrified or offended she'd have kicked him in the shins and with those solid shoes, he'd have felt it!
I wouldn’t mind being kissed like that.
I think you have a law suit here! If the kisser is dead, we can always dig him up and hang him. They used to do that in England. If he’s alive at 105, we can throw him in the brig. Go for it!
I’ll bet you’d also be surprised to know that the sailor’s ship was the USS The Sullivans. Not that this was his ship, but that the author of the article went right to Wiki to find out The Sullivans was a “missile destroyer.” Did you know the Japs had missiles? Me, neither.
Of course, the missile-destroying ship is not the first incarnation of the name The Sullivans. That was the 1945 destroyer, sans missiles, and the home ship of the sailor.
Some dumbass anti-art freepers are buying into this, too! It’s a beautiful, celebratory photo that still gives me chills when I look at it. But then, my mom’s first husband died in Germany 2 weeks before this photo was taken and my father had just finished a grueling run in the Pacific. Context is everything.
> the sailor’s ship was the USS The Sullivans.
I served 11 months on DD537, USS The Sullivans in the 60s. That ship is now docked in Buffalo, NY as part of a naval museum.
Comment of the day!
That’s not courtship.
That photo has always bothered me.
Yes. “Let’s ruin it for everyone” seems to be the sentiment of too many nutcases these days.
That sailor would become a national security adviser after the war. I mean, he’s kissing ‘er, right?
“That’s not courtship.”
No it isn’t but it does reflect the unbounded joy felt by all at the end of the war.
The young man over reacted—no harm was done.
The picture never bothered me but we are all different.
Were they friends/more/married, I’d get it.
I know it was a fantastic moment in history and people were ecstatic.
But imagine a strange man walking up and doing that to your wife or daughter or granddaughter or mom.
The thought of a stranger doing that to me makes me physically ill. Sorry. I know it looks happy.
Well, if your daughter ever has a complete stranger put her neck in a hammer lock and wrenches her backwards while executing a forceful osculation....I’m not sure you will consider than an “innocent event.”
And by the way, I’m not making this shtt up, either.
“Battery is concerned with the right to have one’s body left alone by others.
“Battery is both a tort and a crime. Its essential element, harmful or offensive contact, is the same in both areas of the law. The main distinction between the two categories lies in the penalty imposed. A defendant sued for a tort is civilly liable to the plaintiff for damages. The punishment for criminal battery is a fine, imprisonment, or both. Usually battery is prosecuted as a crime only in cases involving serious harm to the victim.”
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Battery
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