Would all the wealthy and powerful men who weren't serial abusers of women please raise your hands?

[Voltaire2]

[Not Ruth]

1. Why just the wealthy and powerful?

While the most newsworthy, the problem certainly is not confined to them.

How about all men.

[HopeAgain]

2. All men?

Really?

[HAB911]

5. I think Not Ruth meant

Why just the wealthy and powerful? (all the not wealthy and powerful too)

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Not what NotRuth meant.

I am sure that the percentage of abusers is about the same in all economic groupings of men, ... and women. Not equal between men and women but equal between economic groupings.

[mythology]

10. Agreed

It's not enough that just men who are wealthy/powerful who need to stop sexually harassing or assaulting women.

[Perseus]

11. Exactly...

This problem is not limited to the powerful, it happens at all levels, it is a mentality, and it is not unique to the USA, it is global.

It is up to American women to take advantage of the current situation to start strengthening their platform to fight this social decease and be an example to women all over the World, and for white women to stop voting against their interests as they did during the last election, if 53% of white women vote for a groper, do those women have the moral authority to complain if they are groped?

[Irish_Dem]

12. Many women report experiencing some sort of unwanted advances.

So you are asking the right question Not Ruth!

[Voltaire2]

18. if You think somehow Ive limited abusive behavior

to wealthy and powerful men, please think again.

[appleannie1943]

3. This is something that has been overlooked for years. I quit two jobs because of it and neither

boss was wealthy or powerful. Their only power was in the ability to fire their female employees. I took that power away from both of them simply by quitting, in the middle of a workday, when it occurred. Unfortunately not all women have that luxury.

[Irish_Dem]

14. I have experienced this too.

I feel really bad for the women who cannot quit their job for one reason or another.

[tavernier]

4. There are many

who respect and value women. Please don’t broad brush. It doesn’t help.

[rainlillie]

8. I agree.

[Irish_Dem]

15. The good guys are not the problem. It is all the others who make life

difficult and painful.

[Voltaire2]

19. They should raise their hands.

[rainlillie]

7. I'm happy to hear women speaking out.

I wish some of the women in the Weinstein scandal would have refused to sign the nondisclosure agreements... That way they could have warned other women about him.

[malaise]

9. Across the planet

and not just in the USA

[Irish_Dem]

13. Yes, it is a problem for women, no matter where they live.

[Cicada]

16. Maybe immigration should bar all males entering the US

If a bag of skittles has 3 which are poisoned do you permit the sale of that bag? Terrorists, rapists, Sexual harrassers, Republicans are usually men. Maybe we should replace Trump’s travel ban with a ban against men. Maybe we should encourage all boys to play football.

It will not surprise me if in the future women decide to use science to eliminate me and my fellow Penis-Americans.

Just as evolution made a big mistake deciding humans should stand upright - we don’t really need to see saber tooth tigers way off in the grass anymore yet 80 % of us will suffer back problems trying to deal with this dumb stand-on-two-feet thing - so too maybe the two-sex-procreation experiment was a mistake.

[appleannie1943]

17. Or how about we just tell men to keep their damn hands to themselves?

When two men are in a room together you don't see one of them patting the other one on the butt or snatching at his crotch. They don't have to touch each other to talk or stand close enough that the other can feel their erection. If a man can talk to another man without doing any of those things, why can't some of them talk to a women without doing it?

[Mediumsizedhand]

20. Lol, That might be simpler.