George H.W. Bush Acknowledges Groping Multiple Women
Source: NPR
Former President George H.W. Bush has acknowledged touching multiple women inappropriately in what his spokesman called "patt[ing] women's rears in what he intended to be a good-natured manner."
Two women have reportedly accused the former president of groping them while posing for photographs with Bush in recent years.
Actress Heather Lind wrote a post on Instagram, which has since been deleted, about an incident from early 2014.
"[W]hen I got the chance to meet George H. W. Bush four years ago to promote a historical television show I was working on, he sexually assaulted me while I was posing for a similar photo," Lind wrote in a post Tuesday, according to CNN. "He didn't shake my hand. He touched me from behind from his wheelchair with his wife Barbara Bush by his side. He told me a dirty joke. And then, all the while being photographed, touched me again."
Read more: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/26/560148936/george-h-w-bush-acknowledges-groping-multiple-women
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Unlike powerful men - who have collectively been getting away with all kinds of sexual harassment and assault for centuries, of course.
However, I should also state that there absolutely are women in positions of authority who abuse said authority to get their way sexually. I'm thinking specifically of those schoolteachers who rape (statutory definition) male students. The problem there, though, is that the flip-side of "boys will be boys" is this idea that men cannot possibly NOT consent to having sex with women, because they (we - I'm a man myself, full disclosure) are biologically wired to horn-dogs who'll happily fuck any woman they encounter. That ideology is damaging to men and women alike.
And of course, plenty of men and boys experience sexual assault from other men - look at prisons or the Catholic Church (talk about power and authority! 
) Or indeed, a lot of pedophiles, or rape within LGBTQ circles (men, women, and transgender alike - the last of those three being especially vulnerable to rape and other forms of sexual assault, from what I understand).
All of this is to say: Sexual assault is about power and power inequities more than it is about any healthy form of sexual attraction (by definition, since I'm assuming that we all can agree that grabbing someone by the pussy, ass, breasts, cock, etc. without that person's consent is not part of a healthy, romantic, and loving sexual relationship...). The fact that men collectively and more often than not, individually have more power physically, politically, and culturally than women is the REAL reason for why what we call "rape culture" is so closely related to predatory male sexual dominance over women and girls (and to an underappreciated and even more under-reported extent, toward other men and boys).
For I refuse to believe that men are more "naturally" inclined to sexual assault than women, and this would certainly not be the case in a much more egalitarian society - one in which every aspect of social, cultural, economic, and political egalitarianism is real or at the very least, seriously strived for.
is just shaking their head at this non-story.
I thought it was nice that he was on stage recently, for the fundraiser - and how heartening it must be for him and his family - that he is still included in these kinds of things.
OTOH, his 'people' need to be much more watchful and prep whomever he is around, so they are prepared.
Sorry about your father-in-law, btw. My grandfather, I am told, could be quite randy at 92 
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someone floated a rumor that he'd had a mistress. Perhaps to counter Clinton's "bimbo eruptions."
And everyone dismissed it. I think that one of grandchildren just laughed it off.
As for patting someone's behind - they do it in baseball, don't they? 