Posted on 12/04/2017 1:02:38 PM PST by conservative98
Government watchdog group Common Cause has rescinded an award scheduled to be presented tonight to Arnold Schwarzenegger following an outcry over past sexual harassment allegations made against him.
The group was scheduled to honor the former California governor with the “We the People Award” for his work on gerrymandering reform at the awards dinner at LA’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
In a statement, the organization said “former Governor Schwarzenegger does not want to be a distraction to the ongoing important democracy work of Common Cause,” adding he would not be attending tonight’s event and the organization would not be giving him the award.
Activists organized a MoveOn.org petition urging Common Cause to rescind the honor, describing Schwarzenegger as a “serial harasser.” The petition read in part, “By honoring Arnold Common Cause is enabling harassers and silencing victims. Common Cause should instead help shed light on the widespread problem of sexual harassment.”
In 2003, shortly before he was elected California governor, six women told the Los Angeles Times Schwarzenegger had groped and humiliated on film sets, in studio offices and elsewhere since the 1970s. Schwarzeneger denied the reports, but said he had sometimes “behaved badly” on film sets.
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But of course...
And I don’t know about you, but I was White, entitled, and racially guilty from birth.
Ah-nold, you dirty ba$tard, I read your BOOK!
Harrassment...Mr. Muscle muscled the maid and she’s got his kid. And wife is stupid enough to stay with the creep.
Daddy was a Nazi...is that right?
I kissed a girl and I liked it
The taste of her cherry chap stick
I kissed a girl just to try it
...following an outcry over past sexual harassment allegations made against him... was scheduled to honor the former California governor... for his work on gerrymandering reform...And since California is more gerrymandered than ever before, to the point that it's a single party state, we know it isn't just about his purported party affiliation, or the one he's really in.
Funny. I was groped by females I was not dating/married to etc any number of times. I never felt the need to complain. Just smile.
But I know there is a difference. And that should be acknowledged. The left refuses to acknowledge the difference. We are all eunuchs to them. Barbies and Kens below the belt.
“Go ahead, Bennet. Put the knife in me. Look into my eyes and see what’s going on in there when you torn it.” —Commando
We would not be where we are today if Tom McClintock had become governor when Gray Davis was kicked out.
Lol. I hate to admit that I liked that song. Now I hate that witch
You and I will always be respectful of women but the younger generation is being taught that there is no difference.
And you are right. I am 49 and in no shape for anyone to run up and touch me LOL. But in my twenties a lot more than one girl initiated activities. I guess the times were already changing.
Excuse me now while I go sob thinking about the old days :)
Because of all the clatter about “shady history,” I am going to search for the girl that talked me into exposing myself when I was 5 years old. She played the old trick on me, “I’ll show you mine if you show me yours!”
I have, sort of, been troubled ever since./S
I was in the 6th grade when the hottest, most sought after blond in the neighborhood grabbed me and kissed me, telling me “you’re gonna have to get used to that”...I’ll never forget what’s her name.
went to boarding school 1-7th grades. Had study hall every day before dinner. Mary Lou Diamond came up and kissed me full on the mouth when I was 7. I had to write, I will Not Disrupt[t Study hall, 1,000 times in two days or not go home for the weekend. Now that’s sexual harassment.
When he ran, Premiere magazine, I think a movie industry publication, ran a story in which three women described his behavior toward women on the set, grabbing and making comments etc. We in our infinite wisdom elected him.
I know, right? Me too. Let's keep that between us.
I hate her too but I kinda like her boobs. Me and Ellen Degenerate got that in common.
“To duh peepul of dis organization, I only want to say, dat I have given up a long time ago duh sleeping with duh house keepuhs and all of dose tings...”
I risked my FR account at a time when pro-Ahnold support ran high back in 2003 in warning against supporting him (instead of McClintock). I said he was a sleazeball creep and an unrepentant Socialist who would destroy the CA GOP. He was even worse than I thought.
I don’t think it’s as bad for men as you guys think. None of these sexual assaults by famous people were hugs, kisses, or light touching or compliments. They were full on rapes and forced masturbation in front of the woman.
While sexual harrassment as a workplace term famously includes even dirty jokes or hitting on someone verbally, that wasn’t what brought these scandals forward. It was only about powerful people controlling and humiliating women with their sex acts upon them.
It’s not about a schoolboy stealing a kiss.
Tell that to the maid who had her face in the flour pan.
And the love child who apparently made it through third grade at last!
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