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ProfessorGAC

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7. How Can Anyone Doubt This?

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Oct 17, 2017, 02:14 PM

Oct 2017

The term "casting couch" has been in common parlance since i was a kid, and i'm 61 years old. This type of dreadful behavior has been going on for decades.

Nobody in their right mind would be surprised by this and only a troglodyte would cast doubt or aspersions on the women coming foward.

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Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Lawrence Share Sexual Assault, Harassment Stories [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2017 OP

This pervasive, abusive culture has to change True Dough Oct 2017 #1

and these are just the women courageous enough to come forward. many will continue to suffer in niyad Oct 2017 #2

I bet almost EVERY woman has such a story MFM008 Oct 2017 #3

Are you talking to me? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2017 #5

no mamma MFM008 Oct 2017 #9

Between the age Reese is now, the age she says it happened, and IMDB Eliot Rosewater Oct 2017 #4

You are doing no one any favors by assigning politics to this. B2G Oct 2017 #6

You're confusing social forces and cultural norms with politics LanternWaste Oct 2017 #8

I'm not confusing anything. B2G Oct 2017 #10

How Can Anyone Doubt This? ProfessorGAC Oct 2017 #7

This is the culture tRump and his ilk create. Joe941 Oct 2017 #11