DU Men, please enlighten us. What makes men like Donald Trump treat women with such

[smirkymonkey]

contempt and disrespect?

I know most of you aren't like this, but I thought maybe you might have known someone who was or might have some insight. For the life of me, I can't understand what would make a person be so hateful and cruel toward half the people on the planet. I'm not trying to get into a gender war, I would just like to know your opinion on what would make someone behave this way. It's really hurtful and very frightening that so many people seem to think that this kind of behavior is acceptable.

[hlthe2b]

1. It has always been a question for me... Though most of these cretins purport to adore their mothers.

How to explain it? But, yeah, like many women, I've known absolute creeps like this.

[cagefreesoylentgreen]

7. One-up manship

My experience has been that some men (and a few women I've known) always have to get in the last word, even if that last word is trying to top someone else's boast. Trump has always struck me as being that sort of guy.

[smirkymonkey]

14. Yes, he has to "Win" against men, and degrade women.

For some reason he thinks that is what makes him a man. It's funny because in the world I live in, the most respected men are gracious and kind toward both men and women and they are not only not looked at as weak, they are admired and respected.

[poli-junkie]

2. Trump's got some mommy issues

How come we never hear about Der Gropin-feurer's mother?

[smirkymonkey]

15. That would be interesting. Anyone read a biography?

I would be curious.

[canetoad]

63. I tried tracking down some info a while back

Wondering exactly the same thing. Couldn't find much on the web, no wikipedia entry.

[smirkymonkey]

66. Now there is a hole in the market. I would think that is a book that would sell very

well. Any takers?

[Jim Beard]

80. I heard Frontline had a very in-depth

series with Trumph and Hillary. @ hours each.

[smirkymonkey]

86. I would love to see that if you have a link.

How someone could become so twisted, so egomaniaical is just fascinating to me.

[justiceischeap]

93. Linky

[smirkymonkey]

95. Thanky!

Just getting into this, but it's fascinating. "Freddy just wasn't a killer". That says it all. What a sick family. I will continue to watch, but I am already kind of disgusted by the Trump family. Thank you for posting! Everyone should watch this!

[justiceischeap]

96. It's really eye opening. nt

[smirkymonkey]

104. Holy crap!

I cannot believe this guy, I really can't. Thanks again for the link. I hope other people watch this.

[justiceischeap]

106. You're welcome.

The thing is, I thought it was pretty even-handed so when you see the bad stuff about him, you just know that it's worse than they're portraying.

[smirkymonkey]

102. Donald told Ivana "He can't be sexually attracted to a woman who has had children"

He is so disgusting, watching this is like watching a train wreck. Sickening, but you can't take your eyes off it.

[Skittles]

3. tell us about locker room talks

do they typically include boasts about ASSAULTING women?

[smirkymonkey]

17. I don't know, I have never really been in one. I am sure they are filled with

this kind of stuff, but I suppose most males grow out of it by a certain age. Particularly if they are running for the highest office in the land.

[bluesbassman]

52. Been in a lot of locker rooms over the years, never heard one guy brag about assaulting a women.

Trump is a low life scum who couldn't get laid in a morgue if it wasn't for his money.

[MicaelS]

67. Yes, a former supervisor used to brag...

About when he was in high school, he would take girls out into the rural areas, and tell them they could either walk home or "give it up".

This was late 70s and, by then he was in his 30s, and thought it was funny. So yes, some men do boast about assaulting women.

I was appalled, but to my regret I said nothing.

[lindysalsagal]

4. Really small hands???

[smirkymonkey]

19. You know what they say....

Small hands, small ....

[lpbk2713]

5. He's always had a privileged life.

And that makes it easy for him to regard most people as inferior to him. Especially women.

[smirkymonkey]

20. Only weak people need to see other people as inferior to make themselves feel better.

This is a clear indication of an inferior character.

[The Genealogist]

6. He is a cruel, spoiled rotten ass who thinks he is entitled to anything he wants

Money, property, acclaim, women (no doubt he thinks of women as property), he thinks it is just his for the taking. He is an awful, rotten, terrible, depraved person who has likely never had any real boundaries in his life, and the result is an utter, shameful lack of morals or ethics.

[smirkymonkey]

12. I suppose so, he treats everyone with contempt.

But he seems to reserve his especially hateful speech for women. He seems to rejoice in degrading them.

[The Genealogist]

18. Like I say, he undoubtedly thinks of women as just more property

Men like him think women are just here for the pleasure of men, to cook them meals, clean their houses, look pretty on their arms and function as repositories for their foul semen. Misogyny is an ugly, ugly thing, and Donald Trump is the poster child.

[smirkymonkey]

8. I have know men with privileged lives who have been perfectly lovely. Something else must be going

on in that deranged little mind of his. A lot of privileged men are total dicks, I know, because they have never been taught to consider the feelings of others, but I don't think that privilege is the only reason. This guy is beyond anything I have ever seen. I wonder if it is because he really ISN'T privileged. He is rich, but he was never part of the true elite and maybe was always rejected by the truly privileged.

This is his revenge. The elite women rejected him and now he is taking his revenge upon all women. I don't know, it's just a theory. All I know is that this guy is seriously psychologically fucked UP.

[volstork]

81. Medically speaking,

I truly think he is a sociopath, in addition to all that Genealogist enumerated. The cruelty is the most telling trait; it speaks to a lack of empathy and, therefore, a sick, sick mind.

[smirkymonkey]

85. I agree. I don't know what the DSM diagnosis is, but I am sure there is a label for him.

Sociopath, Narcissist, Borderline Personality Disorder - all three. Whatever, the guy is clearly mentally ill.

[volstork]

91. If you draw a Venn diagram

with those diagnoses, Trump is in the overlapping center.

[dembotoz]

9. Because he can

Money and power seems to be way sexy

Perhaps u should ask women

[smirkymonkey]

21. No, just like some men are contemptible, so are some women.

Most women I know aren't golddiggers. Most men I know aren't pigs. What i want to know is what makes men like Trump so cruel and hateful.

[vlyons]

43. From a Buddhist perspective -

It's just plain ol' selfishness. The greatest of all mental errors is ignorance that sees the "self" as real solid thing. Self as first and foremost. Everything else, people, possessions, beliefs are in service to said self. There's no room for compassion, but plenty of room for anger, when selfish desires are not met. The antidote to such selfishness is compassion for others and working for the benefit of others before one's self. When has Donald Trump ever sacrificed himself and his wants and desires for the benefit of others?

I know that I'll probably get dumped on by DUers for saying this, but - yes even people like Trump need our compassion. Trump is mired deeply in selfish ignorance. Someone so angry and selfish cannot be a happy person. Let Trump be a reminder that the people you met on the way up, and how you treat them on the way up, are the same people that you meet on the way back down. And they remember how they were treated. They remember if they were treated with disdain and contempt, or if they were treated graciously with compassion and friendliness.

[smirkymonkey]

73. I think you are right in saying that he is a truly unhappy, miserable person.

Happy people do not act this way. They just don't. It takes a really strong person, however to have compassion for someone like this. It's hard, because he is so destructive. I don't know what the answer is. Sometimes I think if we treat people like this with compassion they will just destroy us all. I just don't know. He is probably suffering, but we can't allow him to make the rest of us suffer along with him.

[vlyons]

109. We begin by calmly and clearly seeing that the problem is selfishness and that

he suffers greatly. His suffering is the result of his own thoughts, words, and deeds. A real, authentic Buddhist teacher could find the right words to get through to him. I'm not such a person. The best that I can do is to see how such negative karma bears fruit in such disasterous and unhappy outcomes. The path to becoming more enlightened is painful. We have to become very embarrassed and ashamed of the various selfish and hurtful things that we have said and done in the past, and truly repent them and make a serious commitment to not make those mistakes again.

I would argue that the way to not let him make us suffer is to have compassion for him. He is an excellent object lesson to all our young men and boys about how disrespecting women and girls is not funny and creates lots of trouble and problems for guys that engage in it. Trump is an object lesson in the virtues of practicing the golden rule. There's also the object lesson that money can't buy you happiness. Only following a moral code of integrity and holding good will and compassion in our hearts can being us peace of mind and happiness.

Too bad Trump can't spend some time with Jimmy and Roselyn Carter. Jimmy is a gentle man and a giant of a man, when it comes to character, compassion, and personal integrity. my 2 cents ...

[Major Nikon]

10. It's not unique to men, it just manifests itself in different ways

Some people just never grow out of the behavior that was encouraged by their peers in grammar school. Virtually all men are exposed to reinforcement of that type of behavior at a very young age. Most develop the maturity to understand why it's wrong. Trump's bad behavior is not just limited to misogyny. He exhibits all sorts of other bad behaviors that were undoubtedly reinforced at a very young age and he lacked either the self discipline or mentorship, or both that could have corrected it.

[smirkymonkey]

22. You are right, he has always been enabled and nobody has ever challenged him.

I still think there is a deeper psychological reason. He is too old to be carrying on this way though. Most men would have mellowed out by the age of 70, but he is still acting like an 18 year old frat boy. I just can't understand how someone could not have matured at all after more than 50 plus years.

[Major Nikon]

56. Change only happens when you really want it

You don't have to be rich not to grow out of childhood bad behavior, but being born into money meant there were few consequences for Trump to have to deal with. So it's not as if his bad behavior is going to cost him any relationships that he can't simply replace with other people who stand to benefit by associating with him.

[smirkymonkey]

69. Well, that might change. As long as he stays in NYC.

He doesn't have a lot of friends there. And the more that comes out about the way he treats the people that he employs and does business with, sooner or later it's going to come back and bite him in the ass. Trust me, he has some very powerful, rich enemies in that city. Once this is all over, he is toast in that town.

[Major Nikon]

100. I don't think he has any friends

As far as I can tell he only has cronies who associate with him because it benefits them financially or in some other way. I think his own family only associates with him on the condition that the checks keep coming. Deep down inside I think he knows that.

[MH1]

27. That's the thing, too. If this was something that happened when he was 22 or so,

it would be one thing. But, correct me if I'm wrong - this tape is from 2005??? 20-somethings are still growing up and some take a while to grow out of the b.s. they learned in grammar school, as you pointed out. And I guess I know that some men really don't grow out of it. But I don't expect the President of the US - or a nominee from a major party - to be drawn from that pool.

[justiceischeap]

94. His father got sick of his bullying and sent him to military school

this is talked about in Frontline's The Choice. One of his classmates was interviewed and said they learned about women and sex from other boys and Playboy. The classmate said the other boys outgrew that attitude but Donald embraced it.

[Major Nikon]

99. Back then people often sent their male children to military school to avoid reform school

...which was essentially prison for boys. I don't know if that's the case with Trump, but it wouldn't surprise me. Many people including Trump's father alluded to him being a rotten kid and Trump himself even seems to acknowledge it. He has always struck me as a spoiled rich kid that never grew out of being rotten to the core. I suspect his father was exactly the same way, but he simply masked his behavior by immersing himself in his work.

[PSPS]

11. Many women seem to go for that sort of thing

I wish I had a nickel for every wonderful woman I've met over the years who was hooked up with someone like this.

[smirkymonkey]

24. Most women grow out of it at a young age.

Unless they have been extremely abused or are mentally ill in some way. The question really is, what is wrong with men that take advantage of the vulnerable?

[gollygee]

30. It is not women's fault if men are abusive.

!!!!!

[deathrind]

88. Yea,

It is not a one way street. Trumps attitude I think is despicable and wrong on all levels towards women. But that does not diminish the fact that it is a candle that burns at both ends.

[Jim Beard]

111. I have see it too in the adult singles market at bars.

[MicaelS]

13. Because they see women as...

Purely an object for their visual and sexual gratification. They don't see women as people with their own feelings, thoughts and needs. They look at women as trophies. Literally. Trump is wealthy enough that he doesn't think he has to take no for an answer.

And much of it is immaturity. They never grew out of adolescence, when the only thing that matters to many young males is "getting lots of p....&quot pardon the vulgarity). And boasting about their sexual activity as if it were a scoreboard. Not caring anything about the girls. It starts young, too. I remember one guy back in 7th grade (age 12-13). All he could talk about was that "he was not getting enough p....". He would say this in front of his "girlfriend".

[DLevine]

25. Yup. Spot on. nt

[smirkymonkey]

29. Ugh! I guess that's it.

Not seeing women as human. I suppose that is partly how they are raised and partly cultural. But some men rise above that.

[MicaelS]

51. Sure they do.

How can a man love a women and treat her like that? I could not and would not.

[imanamerican63]

16. My job takes me all around the country!

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I drive a truck for a living and hear some of most egregious language from men and women. I guess you need to fit in with those around you. I look at it this way, I don't need to fit with these people. I rather stay to myself and then I feel better about myself. Trump was trying to show that he is big deal, which makes him a idiot my eyes!

[smirkymonkey]

32. I guess he thinks it makes him look like more of a man, but it really does the opposite.

It makes him look weak and pathetic.

[imanamerican63]

44. I missed a word!

[dlwickham]

39. this is going to sound very classist

I'm poor white trash and I'm used to people in my socioeconomic class using words like this but he's a fricking billionaire

I thought they were supposed to show some class and not use words like this

trash is trash no matter how much one is worth?

[imanamerican63]

45. Very true!

[11 Bravo]

23. I'm a man, but I can't help you. I can't even begin ...

to wrap my head around that kind of misogyny and generally all-around shittiness.

[smirkymonkey]

31. I'm glad! Thank you!

[Agnosticsherbet]

26. Male Privaledge.

[JDC]

28. Because he is an insecure asshole

Eom

[smirkymonkey]

33. Bottom line, yes.

That's it.

[GaYellowDawg]

34. Base issue is insecurity.

He's a privileged asshole who likes to violate peoples' boundaries to demonstrate his wealth and power. And that comes across as objectification and harassment when it comes to women. Where the insecurity comes into it is, for some people, their wealth and power is enough. They don't have to constantly push it on other people. For someone like Trump, having the wealth and power isn't enough. He has to constantly remind people of it and has to constantly have people confirm it back to him. That's exactly what he was doing in the conversation.

[smirkymonkey]

46. I suppose what it really comes down to is power.

Most men would kick the shit out of him if he treated him that way, but he knows that he can get away with it with women because they are too afraid of what he will do to them if they push back. He is such a bully and a coward. It is only further proof of his cowardice and insecurity.

[Donkees]

35. Narcissists can only feel gradiosity or humiliation

[smirkymonkey]

49. If he's not humiliating someone, he fears he will be humiliated by them.

It's a total defense mechanism. He fears women will laugh at him. The thing is, they do.

[dlwickham]

36. small penises?

[smirkymonkey]

47. Well, some people say....

[The_Casual_Observer]

37. He has a 12 year olds obsession with the playboy magazine

Vibe of the early 1960s, never grew out of it, and was able because of his wealth and power to indulge this fantasy without restraint his whole life.

This was covered nicely in the Frontline documentary last week.

[smirkymonkey]

50. But he's 70 years old, for god's sake?

He should be a wise old man by now. Yet he acts like a 12 year old pre-pubescent boy. It's just creepy!

[dhol82]

59. Ummmmmm..........yup

[The_Casual_Observer]

61. A wise man would know not to ever try a run like this .

His supporter mistake his insanity for some kind of half ass visionary.

[Trust Buster]

38. A burning desire to compensate for his mother's dominance over him during his childhood.

[smirkymonkey]

53. Some people get psychiatric help, some people run for president to prove

that they are the most YUUUGELY powerful man in the world. God, he needs some serious effing help.

[jamese777]

40. On FreeRepublic.com

they are praising their candidate for being an "alpha male." Trump's behavior is primate dominance establishing.
Alpha (ethology): "In studies of social animals, the highest ranking individual is sometimes designated as the alpha. Males, females, or both, can be alphas, depending on the species. Where one male and one female fulfill this role together, they are sometimes referred to as the alpha pair. Other animals in the same social group may exhibit deference or other species-specific subordinate behaviours towards the alpha or alphas.

Alpha animals usually gain preferential access to food and other desirable items or activities, though the extent of this varies widely between species. Male or female alphas may gain preferential access to sex or mates; in some species, only alphas or an alpha pair reproduce."

[smirkymonkey]

55. He is anything but an alpha male. First of all, the concept of alpha and beta males is so

incredibly stupid I can't even express my contempt for it. Secondly, even if such a thing existed, Trump is so far from Alpha it's not funny. Compare him to a brave soldier who faces danger every day of his life. Trump would shit his pants after 5 minutes of combat. Everything was handed to him, he had to work for nothing. And everything that was handed to him, he squandered. He is the very definition of a loser. There is nothing manly, brave or superior about him. I have met homeless people with more character and fortitude than he has.

I could go on forever, but Trump is NO alpha male.

[GaYellowDawg]

60. YES.

First of all, the concept of alpha and beta males is so incredibly stupid I can't even express my contempt for it.

YES. A thousand times YES. And the rest of your post is spot on, as well.

[gwheezie]

98. Animal leaders

Who live long don't provoke fights with the rest of the group. There's no such thing as an alpha. I've studied herd behavior for decades, leaders change, roles change, these dopey guys have no idea what they're talking about.

[nolabear]

58. Good God. They sound like Tom Cruise's character in Magnolia.

Or the audience he railed to. I started to put up the YouTube video of Cruz's rant but I was so skeeved out already that I couldn't take it.

[Mc Mike]

41. I can't claim to understand it.

I've been a construction worker for decades. It's a very rare occurence that I've heard guys talking like that on the sites.

There have been a few boy-men who have occasionally sunk to that level of disgusting, hatefilled swinishness, but it isn't standard practice. This is antecdotal, based only on my personal experience, but I've worked on more than a hundred job sites since '85.

Someone up thread said something that reminded me of what all commercial and industrial union electrician apprentices are taught, in classes about sexual harassment: "Would you say it if your mother, wife, daughter, or sister was around? Would you want someone to say it to your mother, wife, daughter, or sister?"

[smirkymonkey]

62. I'm glad to hear that. I didn't think all men behaved that way.

It's nice to know that they don't.

[Mc Mike]

77. I think mob pornographers do. Maybe some sleaze bag frats or athletic teams.

I can think of about 5 instances where someone was talking around me in this base, bottom of the evolutionary scale, vile, disgusting manner, over the years. When there were no women around.

And nobody ever said or did anything like that around our women co workers, in my presence, ever.
If they did, guaranteed I would tell them "I'll testify to exactly what you said, when the hearing occurs. I'll be happy to rat you out, scumbag."

[malaise]

42. How about socialization

It is how they saw and see men around them treating women

[awake]

48. Question would you ask DU woman to explain Paris Hilton?

I think any one here on this site knows this type of sexual abuse has to do with power and control of others. I do find it sexist to think that "men" on DU would have a special knowledge of Trump because of their shared gender.

[smirkymonkey]

64. Does Paris Hilton abuse men?

I don't claim to know what Paris Hilton thinks, but she is a rich spoiled brat. However it has been reported that even SHE has changed her ways and she is half of Donald's age. Some people are able to mature out of their bad behavior and learn. Some aren't Donald has never grown and learned.

[awake]

70. My point has nothing to do with Paris or any other woman or man

It was the part of the op that a ask DU men to explain the acts of Trump as if being a man gave them some special insight into Trumps actions. I used Paris Hilton as a example on how sexiest it is to assume ones gender would give anyone insight into the actions of someone else who shared the same gender.

[smirkymonkey]

72. Not really. Most women don't really have it out for men. There isn't this underlying contempt

for men. There is a hatred for sexism, but that is a reaction. However, there seems to be something in the male psyche that is violently opposed to all things feminine. I am not saying that all men are like that, but I think that some men might just be able to offer some insight if they really think about it, that's all.

[awake]

76. Do you realize how sexiest this sounds

"there seems to be something in the male psyche that is violently opposed to all things feminine"
Is as sexiest as someone saying "there seems to be something in the female psyche that is violently opposed to all things massqulain" or if one instead one said "there seems to be something in the white psyche that is violently opposed to all people who are not white" would be clearly raciest. I am not trying to atack you just trying to point how sexiest some of all of us can be heard even if we did not intend to.

[Skittles]

79. the word is SEXIST, not SEXIEST

[awake]

84. Thank you I am dyslexic and that is what my spellchecker came up with

No offense intended.

[Skittles]

87. aw no problem

it reminded me of Spinal Tap

[smirkymonkey]

83. Try a little expiriment for me. Go to any major new publication and read an article or

opinion piece written by a woman. Or a person of color. Or a gay person. Or a trans person, etc. And then read the comment section. And then observe the incredibly HATEFUL comments below. Ad hominem attacks. Not about what the person has written, but attacks against the person themselves. And then come back and tell me that there is not a problem.

White men write article and while people may disagree with what they might say, they are not attacked for who they are, they are attacked for what they have said. They are not objects of hatred. That is the difference. Obviously you are a man, or else you would see the difference. I obviously will never get through to you because you will never see it. You don't want to.

[awake]

89. In no way have my posts intended as a personal atack on you

I am trying to point out how assuming men should have some insight into Trumps mind is miss placed I would think than anyone one this site could add insight into Trumps actions. I live in Canada and resent when I as an American am ask to explain Trump I can only assume that men on DU would also feel the same being asked to explain Trump.

[allan01]

54. if i were to utter such filth as a yungster,

id hear from the depths of the house ,,,,"allan egleston,,, im going to wash your mouth out with soap". ( my late mom) ( shed do it too .) very dispciable . note : a jerk is a jerk.

[davidn3600]

57. He's got a high school jock/bully personality that he's never grown out of

They are guys who have very large egos. And yeah, like Trump himself said it's "locker room banter." They think this type of talk makes them look cool and more powerful in the eyes of other men. It's a pecking order type of thing in their mind.

But our society encourages this. These type of guys you find are treated like gods. Society views them as the winners. They are extremely popular in their social circles and they always have a girl on their shoulder. They feel as if they can get anything they want. No one talks down to them. Society also encourages men to have as much sex as possible.

[smirkymonkey]

65. I suppose all men go through this at a certain age, but don't you think by the age of 70 one should

have grown out of it? I mean, this is just gross. It's creepy. Not only that, but if you aspire to the role of a statesman, you need to behave in a certain manner and this is NOT it. He is socially clueless. I don't care how sexually active you are, but at some point in your life and at some point in your professional career, you learn to be discreet. He has never learned that. He is just a disgusting pig, that is all there is to it.

[Maine-i-acs]

68. A lifetime of Entitlement -

Constantly surrounded by people who swear that he s**ts ice cream.

People who say, pretend, or even believe that he is the greatest thing ever. Many of whom are paid well to say, pretend and believe it. Makes him feel like he actually is.

These suckups satisfy Trump's every perverse desire in order to step into the stench of his phony fame.

[Warren DeMontague]

71. He's a raging narcissist who inherited something like 100 million dollars.

I mean, I don't think most of us can even come close to comprehending the warping of reality that grows out of being that ridiculously rich. He's NEVER had anyone around him, at least not since adulthood, who wasn't paid well enough to smoochy-smooch his ass all day and night long.

So he already thinks he's fucking awesomer than Batman, and he's surrounded by people who have a vested financial interest in adoring the shit of him and pretending like every booger that comes out of the dude's nose is a pure golden ingot.

You take someone who was probably basically decent to begin with but with some underlying mental and/or emotional issues, and run their life through that kind of scenario, and you come out with Michael Jackson.

Put a selfish egomaniac into that bizarro reality, and you get Trump.

[smirkymonkey]

75. Well, I think he's in for a big surprise!

Politics is a completely different ballgame than business. Nobody is going to kiss his flabby ass anymore, even if he does win. He won't be able to stand the heat, especially in the international arena. He might have scores of yes men on his campaign, but if he makes it, those days are over forever. He will never be able to endure the pressure. We will see exactly what he is made of.

[Warren DeMontague]

90. I don't want to chick any countens

but I don't think he's gonna win.

[UTUSN]

74. Note to O.P. - uh, YEA, don't ask *US*/DUers this question. n/t

[regnaD kciN]

78. I remember a line from "Less Than Zero"…

…about a rich kid who drugged, tortured, and raped an underage girl. When asked why he, who had everything, would do something like that, his reply was that "I have everything…except something to lose." I think there's a certain mindset among the ultra-rich that they aren't really privileged unless they can flout the most basic standards of human civility, and demonstrate to themselves that they can get away with it.

[DBoon]

82. Social Dominance

Being the alpha primate gives you reproductive rights to all females, as well as the license to humiliate all your subordinate male rivals.

A very brutal and subhuman sense of social hierarchy in other words

[ohnoyoudidnt]

92. He thinks all women are beneath him.

Probably even a well educated and successful woman is beneath any male
in his mind. IMHO

[YoungDemCA]

97. An insanely privileged and entitled psychopathic narcissist in a shallow, misogynistic culture.

That's about the best I can come up with for an explanation for Donald J. Trump.

There are a disturbingly large number of men like him out there, too (though by no means, anywhere close to a majority of men). He's just an extremely prominent example of one.

I will say this, though as a young man myself, I've heard some of my peers say things that, while not as extremely disgusting, offensive, or frankly, horrifying as what Trump said/says and does, still disturb me. While comments as shockingly vulgar and sociopathic as Trump's are rightfully condemned, there is still a hell of a lot of room between Trump's language and behavior and treating women with the basic respect that they are entitled to not merely as women, but as human beings - with all of their strengths and weaknesses, positive traits and negative traits, and other quirks and imperfections - and perhaps most importantly, as individual human beings, differentiated from each other in many ways, yet still sharing the same basic human nature. And I'm afraid that far too many of us men are not doing the latter, even those of us whom loath Trump as much as anyone. Lotta work to do.

[Doodley]

101. Emotional retardation

[Glitterati]

103. So, anyone have a date on this little escapade? He was a NEWLYWED in 2005

He married Melania in January 2005.

So, he's a newlywed and trying to "bed" another woman?

Imagine being Melania Trump right now...........

[TonyPDX]

105. I've known so many like him, and they're all cowards.

[Matrosov]

107. I tried to explain it yesterday

but my post was hidden for being overly graphic. All I did was try to explain how men like Trump view women, as inanimate sex objects, nothing more.

[smirkymonkey]

108. Thanks everyone for your input, I appreciate it!

Sorry if I didn't reply to you personally, I am tired and am going to sleep, but it has been an interesting conversation. Please watch the video that justiceischeap has posted. It is very eye opening. Thanks again for your comments!

[awoke_in_2003]

110. I think at a primitive caveman level...

women are thought of as a means of reproduction- survival of the species. A lot of men have never evolved past that point. Some people are nothing but pure Neanderthals.

[roamer65]

112. Inherited sociopathy.

It's a genetic flaw in his family.