Last year, when it was publicly revealed that film producer Harvey Weinstein has sexually harassed and even sexually assaulted some famous actresses, it was a major turning point in gender relations!
It was like Waterloo, Midway, Stalingrad all in one! The tides have turned and the once powerful were about to get pounded big time!
It was only a year earlier that revelations that Donald Trump not only bragged about grabbing women's privates, but that he also walked around women's dressing rooms at a teen pageant, forcibly kissed women alone in his rooms, raped his ex-wife out of anger, and raped a 13-year old victim of sex trafficking. None of those allegations stopped him from winning presidency. It didn't help that his main opponent, Hillary Clinton, who presents herself as a feminist hero, also continued to be married to longtime husband Bill Clinton who not only had affairs, but also had multiple groping and even rape allegations against him.
With Trump's victory, there was a women led protest the day after his inauguration. It was a reaction against a nation voting for a sexual predator.
However, while it was easy for liberals to loudly denounce Republican sexual predators, there was still much silence about Democrat sexual predators.
That is, until the story about longtime Democrat donor (and guest to Clinton and Obama fundraisers) Harvey Weinstein became public.
At that point, liberal had to look themselves in the mirror and say "NO MORE" to enabling sexual predators in their midst.
It made it so much for that to happen when the Democrats were out of power, as noted in the Medium article by Charlie Peach
Charlie Peach, “The Big Thank You that Hollywood, Liberals and Feminists Owe Trump…,” Medium, December 17, 2017
https://medium.com/@CharliePeach/the-big-thank-you-that-hollywood-liberals-and-feminists-owe-trump-75268b6303f9.
Liberals and Feminists should be thanking Trump for his election because we all know that had Hillary won, they would all be gleefully partying right now in the White House with Harvey Weinstein, Matt Lauer, Charlie Rose, Kevin Spacey, Larry King, Russell Simmons, Dustin Hoffman, Brett Ratner, Louis C.K, George Takai, Al Franken etc.,….all of these men would be on the Clinton White House Celebrity guest list, and all of the women and feminists in Hollywood would be adorned with their most expensive couture gowns for the evening, with Anna Wintour writing how In Vogue and unprecedented it was and Huma Abedin prancing and posing, while trying her best not to be accused of being inappropriate and uncouth as they did to Desiree Rogers, during the Obama Administration. Harvey Weinstein would have carte blanche from all in attendance, everyone from Hillary down to the maids would know of his ilk, yet all would pretend otherwise.
We know that Bill Clinton and Harvey Weinstein, would have already picked out the hottest blondes to take back to the Lincoln bedroom for the night. All of Hollywood & Wall Street execs, would’ve paid for their night of sexual bliss and male chest pumping in one of the many bedrooms that the Clinton’s had no shame in selling before. If it were not for Trump, white women in Hollywood would still be silent counting their money and Hollywood success, while white men like Weinstein would continue to victimize any woman who dared seek his attention or support.
One of the listed names, Al Franken, was once thought to be good opponent against Donald Trump for the 2020 elections. He was seen as someone who isn't afraid to tell Donald Trump to "f--- off" and not back down when Trump yells out his usual insults.
However, like Donald Trump, Al Franken has his own trail of sexual harassment allegations. However, there is physical evidence, with a photo of him groping a sleeping Leann Tweeden while on a ride back from their USO Tours!
Even with that, Democrats were reluctant to demand Al Franken resign!
The Hawaii representatives in US Congress (all Democrats who call themselves "progressives') were all reluctant to demand Al Franken resign, as noted in this meme that was posted on Hawaii Republican Action - HIRA facebook page on 11/17/2017
Hawaii Republican Action - HIRA facebook page
11/17/2017
But this wasn't the only sexual predator that Hawaii Democrats have been protecting.
All those listed on the memes (Mazie Hirono, Colleen Hanabusa, Tulsi Gabbard and Brian Schatz) have been SILENT about the sexually predatory actions of Dan Inouye.
Dan Inouye, a longtime Democrat senator, is seen as a "saint" by many, due to his inspiring story of overcoming anti-Japanese racism after the Pearl Harbor attacks, losing his arm on the battlefield during World War 2, and coming back to start a long political career in which he rose to the ranks as a US Senator with the seniority to bring federal funds to Hawaii.
This addiction to federal funds have keep people voting for Dan Inouye who remained in office until his death in 2012!
This addiction to federal funds has also kept many people from criticizing his very public sexual predatory allegations surrounding Dan Inouye and the hairdresser Lenore Kwock!
Denby Fawcett, “Denby Fawcett: Would Dan Inouye Have Survived 1992 Sex Allegations Today?,” Civil Beat, November 28, 2017
http://www.civilbeat.org/2017/11/denby-fawcett-would-dan-inouye-have-survived-1992-sex-allegations-today/.
In 1992, Inouyeʻs hairdresser, Lenore Kwock, alleged that the senator forced her to have sex with him and that he groped her in a hair salon after that. Inouye denied the allegations, as well as unsubstantiated claims that he had abused nine other women.After a brief flurry of news reports, Inouye won re-election and emerged from the scandal largely unscathed.In an interview Monday, Kwock said she thinks people might be more understanding today of what happened to her because many women now are are telling similar stories of sexual harassment by powerful men.“Back in those days, it was how some men treated women,” she said. “It was purely selfish on their part without concern for the woman’s feelings.”
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Kwockʻs claim that Inouye sexually abused her came in October 1992, when he was running for re-election to a sixth term in office. In a news conference, Kwock told reporters the senator had coerced her to have sexual intercourse with him in his Waikiki apartment 17 years earlier when she was 22 and starting her career as a hairdresser.
She said her boss at the hair salon at the Ilikai Hotel where she worked sent her to Inouyeʻs apartment on an errand. Kwock said as soon as she walked through the door, “he grabbed me and proceeded his advances on me.”
She remembers today, “Even though he had only one arm, he had strength. I tried pushing him but I didn’t get anywhere.”
“I was very young, inexperienced and scared,” Kwock said then. “I felt overpowered by him and the fact that he was Daniel Inouye. He removed my clothing and Iʻm just thinking, ‘This is going to happen.’”
She said back then she didn’t consider it rape because although she tried to push him back, she gave in to him. She said she was too afraid to to do anything else.
She was quoted at the time in The Honolulu Advertiser saying, “I told Inouye ʻNo I donʻt want to get pregnant’ … and he opened up the drawer and got out contraceptive foam, which I had never seen and I donʻt know how to use it so he did everything.”
Kwock said that after the incident, when Inouye came in for a haircut, as she was shampooing his hair in a partially partitioned room he reached his hand up her dress. She says he tried to do the same thing in other hair appointments, but that she was able to evade him by moving over to the right side of the basin, the side of his missing arm, so he could not reach out to grab at her.
She said sometimes he made lewd remarks, reminding her about the sexual encounter in his apartment. He repeatedly asked her to go out to dinner with him at expensive restaurants, but she says she always refused.
Look at what was highlighted in red!
These details have long been public!
Yet our Congressional delegation (Mazie Hirono, Colleen Hanabusa, Tulsi Gabbard and Brian Schatz) who all love to present themselves as "progressives" have been SILENT about these sickening and predatory actions by Dan Inouye!
So-called progressive feminists Mazie Hirono, Colleen Hanabusa, Tulsi Gabbard and Brian Schatz have been silent about Dan Inouye forcing a powerless, passive women to have sex against her will!
So-called progressive feminists Mazie Hirono, Colleen Hanabusa, Tulsi Gabbard and Brian Schatz have been silent about Dan Inouye gaslighting and taunting the same women after his sexual assault!
So-called progressive feminists Mazie Hirono, Colleen Hanabusa, Tulsi Gabbard and Brian Schatz are all phonies when it comes to advocating for sexual abuse victims!
So-called progressive feminists Mazie Hirono, Colleen Hanabusa, Tulsi Gabbard and Brian Schatz are all phonies when it comes to standing up to powerful men who prey on vulnerable women!
original photo by Anthony Quitano of Civil Beat
captions added by Pablo Wegesend courtesy of Paint
Former state legislator Anelle Amaral (who was a former cop who taught rape prevention) was willing to publicly criticize Dan Inouye at the time, but she didn't get much support from other female politicians
Amaral was even more dismayed when women lawmakers rejected her suggestion that they get involved in the issue.“The same women who had run to the microphone at every possible opportunity to support Anita Hill in her battle against (U.S. Supreme Court nominee) Clarence Thomas all stood back and didn’t say a word about this poor, powerless hairdresser. It just stunned me,” she said.Amaral said nine other women called her office to say they had received similar unwanted sexual attention from Inouye, but they declined to come forward publicly.
Fast forward to this decade! Dan Inouye is so viewed as a saint that they are naming schools, buildings, telescopes and even Honolulu's airport after him.
The University of Hawaii was ready to build an unofficial shrine (it was to be a new building named in his honor that was intended to be building dedicated to the social sciences) but only backed off due to the university's maintenance backlog and a more urgent need to build a new life sciences building.
original photo by Brian Tseng of Civil Beat
captions added by Pablo Wegesend, courtesy of Paint
Dan Inouye is lucky to be dead by 2012. This protects him from the new round of outrage against him that would've been inspired by the #metoo movement!
I mean, look, Al Franken (plus John Conyers) were later pressured to resign when it looked like Republican sexual predator Roy Moore was about to win a US Senate seat in a mostly Republican state of Alabama! Democrats needed to present a "high ground" to show that they were truly serious about going after sexual assault allegations against Roy Moore! They wouldn't have been able to do it had Al Franken, John Conyers and Dan Inouye remained in office! It was only because Inouye was dead, and that Franken & Conyers resigned that gave the Democrats the credibility they needed to defeat Roy Moore.
Dan Inouye would've resigned in disgrace and be seen as a joke had he lived long enough to experience the #metoo movement. Who knows, maybe a local comedian would've finally had the guts to taunt Dan Inouye in a viral comedy routine the same way Hannibal Burress taunted Bill Cosby!
Mazie Hirono, Colleen Hanabusa, Tulsi Gabbard and Brian Schatz were serious about the issue of sexual predatory behavior, they would demand his name be scrubbed off the places named after him. Or at least scrub his name off the airport, and rename it Honolulu International Airport again!
Meanwhile, Dan Inouye, just like John Conyers, was also protected by the fact that people were scared of being called "Uncle Toms" or "race traitors"
Kwock says after she told her story she got phone calls from people threatening her. Some of her Japanese-American clients seemed especially dismayed.“They said to me, ‘Don’t take him down.’ Dan Inouye was their hero,” she said.And people who came forward to support Kwock faced accusations of disloyalty.
In other words, racial tribal loyalty was more important to some people than actually judging people based on the content of their character!
As for the common male fear of false accusations, there was this
Political columnist Neal Milner, interviewed by The New York Times in 1992 when the Inouye allegations were leveled, said then that Democrats in Hawaii “don’t have to worry about defending themselves. All Inouye has to say is, ‘No I didn’t,’ and that’s enough to protect him.”That was despite the fact a pre-election poll showed 42 percent of the likely voters believed Kwock and only 20 percent believed Inouye. And Kwock passed a lie detector test when Inouye refused to take one.
All I know is that if someone made a false allegation against me, I would definitely take a lie detector test. I would multiple lie detectors conducted by multiple different testers just to make sure there's credibility on my side!
But Dan Inouye didn't! Why? Because he's Dan Inouye, the rules don't apply to him!
Well, since Dan Inouye claimed to be a Christian, he's sure being held accountable in the afterlife!
