Feministing.com - "I didn't know about Chappaquiddick and rape case until yesterday"

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In 1990, GQ magazine ran a devastating profile of Kennedy. Two 16-year-old girls near the Capitol startled by a limo rolling up, the door opening, Ted sitting in the back with a bottle of wine, asking one, then the other, to join. A former aide who acted as Ted's "pimp." His penchant for dating women so young that one did not know he was the subject of many books. Kennedy, at a swank DC restaurant with his drinking buddy Chris Dodd, throwing a petite waitress on his dinner table with such force that glass and flatware shatters and goes flying. Then Ted throws her on to Dodd's lap and grinds against her. He is interrupted by other waitstaff. He is later caught in the same restaurant, in a semi-private area, having sex on the floor with a lobbyist.
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"I didn't know about Chappaquiddick and the rape case until yesterday," says Miriam Perez, a 25-year-old editor at Feministing.com. She admires Kennedy's accomplishments, but is perplexed. "Like every person, he's human and there are lots of flaws involved," she says. "But a big feminist tenet is: The personal is political. So I don't feel it's fair to fully ignore it in this case."
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It may be 2009, but the bulk of the talking heads who covered this funeral were older white males, and among the few women -- eminent historian Doris Kearns Goodwin among them -- it's still shocking to hear them, nearly to a one, reduce Kennedy's bad behavior to rakish abandon or poor judgement. Why shouldn't we hold our elected male officials -- especially those who so assiduously court the female vote -- to a standard of personal decency in their treatment of women? Why do we still assume that this is an either/or proposition?

"It's a great question," says Gloria Feldt, former president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Feldt worked with Kennedy and is an admirer, still. "He worked with women's groups in a very respectful way, in a way that few other senators do," she says. "But I don't know that you can reconcile it -- when it's in a group's best interest that said person stays in that chair, how do you weigh that moral equation? I wish it were simpler than that."
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KENNEDY'S FREE PASS WITH WOMEN - New York Post
 
He got off easy. Never went to jail. He used his name like a whore to entice and influence people to avoid the embarrassement and the spotlight which is why many do not even know about his past with thanks to liberal-friendly MSM.

I thought you knew.

Go ahead and idolize the guy. It's a free country.
 
Men routinely get off easy in the patriarchy. Why not work to do something about that?
 
You cannot really if you have people in power (and money) and have connections to high places. The Kennedy clan is a prime example. They can get away with it whenever and wherever possible.
 
Are you forgetting that girls do want their power and wealth by seducing men of power and wealth?

While it is true that if you have connections to high places, you'll likely to have more lenient treatment than if you didn't have connections, that's ALWAYS been like that since humankind.

But sex? You're upset about the fact that he could get women and have sex? When is sex a crime?

And you're on feminist's side? Please get real.
 
So, according to you Netrox that raping of women or girls is ok, even for men in power and they have the right to avoid any justice or punishment by law?

Read...c..a..r..e..f..u..l..l..y the title of my thread. "I didn't know..."

I'd say the majority of people do not even know about Kennedy past crimes.
 
netrox said:
Are you forgetting that girls do want their power and wealth by seducing men of power and wealth?
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And men of power and wealth don't know how to repel seductive girls? That's pretty lame.


But sex? You're upset about the fact that he could get women and have sex? When is sex a crime?
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Does that include married men plying underage girls with liquor and using physical force on the serving staff? Is that acceptable behavior?
 
Thanks, Reba. Exactly what I've been alluding to.
 
Reba said:
And men of power and wealth don't know how to repel seductive girls? That's pretty lame.
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Um, a lot of MEN like that... and they want them to be all over them!

Does that include married men plying underage girls with liquor and using physical force on the serving staff? Is that acceptable behavior?
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Not acceptable but the whole incident is questionable.
 
Including Barney Frank, only it's not the girls?
 
kokonut said:
Including Barney Frank, only it's not the girls?
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Right, why should he be different? He's not married so your point is?

I have grown to actually admire Barney Frank because he takes no BS from people like you and when he insulted a woman who cried of "nazi policies" by asking her, "what planet are you from?" - he got my respect!
 
Actually, it is HE who creates the BS, including the policies he makes as well as running away from any damages he created a la the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac debacle by not acknowledging his mistakes. But that's another thread.
 
kokonut said:
Actually, it is HE who creates the BS, including the policies he makes as well as running away from any damages he created a la the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac debacle by not acknowledging his mistakes. But that's another thread.
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when will you start that one?
 
Wow, I didn't know people suddenly favor a man who is powerful and wealthy.. I thought people were against that.
 
Well, they like to use terms like "fat cats" while purposely obvlivious to the fact that it is those "fat cats" who shovel out their money in support of the Democrat party.

George Soros anyone?

Kennedy clan total worth anyone?

Caroline Kennedy will feel right at home in the Millionaires' Club known as the U.S. Senate: The Camelot heiress' net worth easily tops $100 million, a Daily News review found.

The former First Daughter is refusing to release financial information as she seeks to become New York's next senator, maintaining her family dynasty's longstanding practice of keeping its fortune tightly under wraps
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Read more: Caroline Kennedy: The $100M Woman


I...I....didn't know!!

Caroline Kennedy: The $100M Woman
 
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