Only the Rapes that Matter

 

It was Elise Stefanik who let me know how Republican women were going to wear their shame this year: gossamer, barely there, nearly naked--shame like a second skin, all-surrounding, she announced that E. Jean Carroll was a liar and the media was just fluffing her up. Was the determination of his guilt actually made by a jury? So what? Juries can be misled. Peerless leader may have dozens of women who accuse him, but the reality is, he has had, nonetheless, dozens of women. Because he is who and what he is. And the GOP has made peace with that. He's their sex pest. Their letch. 

It's hard for me to think they haven't granted him droit de seigneur over the new brides honeymooning at Mar-a Lago or Bedminster.  After all, we knew about the TMZ tape and dozens of claims of sexual assault back in 2016. And he somehow won, with the support of the religious right. People like Katie Britt, who gave the SOTU rebuttal, support Trump, even while she decries the horrific sex trafficking that has, supposedly, something to do with lax border control right now, while she speaks of things that happened 20 years ago, and not in the US at all. 

Does she just not know that Trump goes way back with traffickers like Jeffery Epstein? Are we just going to ignore who Trump's associates have been? 

I just don't think the sleaze-puddle that is Trump's modeling business and beauty contest associations have been really explored. There's reason to think the whole Q/Pizzagate sex dungeon mole-children shit is just weirdo projection to distract from ""billionaire"" Trump's constant penising around female people, whether they invited it or not. 

Which brings us to Nancy Mace, who got very offended that she was being shamed, as a rape victim, for supporting Trump, a rapist. 

Now no one, not ever, should be shaming Nancy Mace for having been raped--that is appalling. She sure does support a fucking rapist, though. His violation of a woman, any woman, regardless of how she goes on to speak about it, is a fucking problem. E. Jean Carroll is not problematic for surviving with her sense of humor intact. If she can joke about her situation, that is her mode of survival, and I won't fault her for that. Trump is problematic for still defaming her because he believes women exist to either please him or be bullied. 

But when Nancy Mace is called out for the ambitious negotiation with her own soul that she has made, she lashes out--How dare you! And what about some consensual sex act Bill Clinton had 25 years ago? The loud screech of the subject being changed because Republican women would rather not address whatever Trump did, that they have given a "forever pass" for. 

I would never shame these women for anything to do with their sexuality. But shame them for supporting Trump? All day every day. Because it is shameful--even if we set aside his national security threat, his incompetence, his emotional immaturity, his love of tyranny, and so on and so on....

He violates women. What does that tell you about what he thinks about human rights and everything else?