1. Groping       The always amazing Kate Harding wrote a great
article for Jezebel today that touched on both
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Dominique Strauss-Kahn specifically
their tendency to grope unsuspecting and unconsenting women.
Also the pass they (and many, nay most men) seem to receive from
society as a whole for this type of behavior.       That’s not
to say these things are entirely unrelated, mind you. There are
certainly points of overlap between being a cad and being a
criminal: An overblown sense of entitlement, an apparent lack of
empathy for anyone you might hurt, an erection. But cheating on
your wife is not a gateway drug to sexual assault. They are two
different things, one of them a crime. If you’re a journalist,
please take a moment now to repeat that to yourself a few times.
And then please consider this: A man who’s known for grabbing
women’s breasts and asses without their consent (a crime) is not
just some amusing, slightly pathetic Pepe Le Pew cartoon until
the day someone accuses