Having spent four fairly boozy years in college, having been to my share of college parties, and just having a fundamental understanding of that environment, here's what I think happened.
I think he was drunk and he dry humped her for "fun". Stupid, sophomoric, thoughtless, "fun". The mix of booze, testosterone and adrenaline can make a young guy do some pretty stupid shit, and you can DOUBLE that when a buddy is there. He and his buddy laughed about it, and maybe she hid her horror by not acting like she had been attacked. Ask them about it a week later, and they may or may not have remembered it.
Different people (men and women) are sensitive to entirely different things. Clearly this really, profoundly hurt Ford, even though he was clowning around. It wasn't a rape, it wasn't an attempted rape, it was a short, stupid, ignorant act by a drunk kid who was showing off and should have ******* known better. Some women would have laughed it off, some would not, and there is no right or wrong response to it.
Should that disqualify any candidate, three decades later, nominated by a President from either party, for the Supreme Court? Not in my book, but it certainly provides a pretty good excuse for partisans of the opposite party nowadays.
My two cents. Yours?
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He got her into a room on false pretenses and turned up the radio so nobody could hear her. It ain't like he got handsy on the dance floor. Which is bad enough in itself.
Yep. What we really, really need right now is folks belittling the story.
Two "boys" pushed her into a separate room and locked the door. That's a coordinated attack.
In order to silence her, he pressed his hand over her mouth, causing terror he might accidentally kill her. All the while laughing, the "boys" had a good time with a 15-year old screaming for help.
Yeah, I guess, some women would have laughed it off. Sure. Fearing for her life and her bodily integrity, losing control over what happens to her, is a laughing matter. What we do know is, the boys "laughed it off", and some unreconstructed males join them to this day. A 15-year old, for pity's sake.
Does any of you male goofs know what the expression "walk a mile in his / her shoes" even means? Or is the unreconstructed, unencumbered by any shade of doubt, male perspective all you got in your infantile egocentrism? Is that really the entirety, the "two cents", you have to contribute?