"I grabbed her ass," one young woman exclaimed to her friends after snapping a picture ...

[YDogg]

... with her arm around the former first daughter.

Chelsea gets out and about:
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/04/19/921148.aspx

[JI7]

1. so nobody wanted to grab Rendell's ass ?

[JI7]

2. here is one pic, she looks really pretty there

[quantass]

3. I still can't get over why anyone would want to grab Chelsea's ass...*shutter*

:scared:

[bahrbearian]

6. Come to Daddy .,, Big Boy.

[JI7]

7. .

[quantass]

23. that's a woman's ass in that pic, right?

[Muttocracy]

4. does Chelsea have Secret Service? nt

[baldguy]

16. Has Bush fucked them up too?

Prob'ly

[Zachstar]

5. I can understand the excitement but is that not sexual assult?

I can't understand what anyone finds it acceptable to go up and grab someones butt. It is a violation of personal space in my view.

No I am not saying Chelsea ought to press charges but damn! That puts a bad view on gay rights!

[JI7]

8. wtf does that have to do with gay rights ?

and maybe Chelsea didn't mind. it was a girl and girls are less likely to feel threatened among each other.

[Zachstar]

18. Homophobes take it out of context and use it to push homophobic views.

See its not good when news gets out about this. They use this stuff against gay rights.

For instance lets just say random right talk show host tomorrow reads the news in a way to under the radar push homophobic views to his/her listeners. See what I mean now?

Note: I am just saying this as an observation. I personally feel that it is harmful to gay rights.

[seriousstan]

10. It doesn't put a bad view on gay rights, but it does raise the question of why is this acceptable.

I have a hard time thinking there would be support for this kind of action by a frat boy. "I grabbed Chelsea's ass" uttered by a frat boy would have been demonized. Funny that.

[JI7]

11. because girls are less likely to feel threatened by each other

and it's often done more in a friendly way .

[Divernan]

20. No, women do NOT normally grab another woman's ass

Women hug, they kiss each other's cheeks - but only women they already know, and it's a mutually acceptable gesture. MEN may slap each other's butts - but I doubt if they do it to men they have never met - or presume to go up to some celebrity and cop a feel.

[JI7]

21. i remember someone bragging about grabbing Gore's ass

but as in this case with Chelsea. i doubt they actually grabbed their asses. they probably put their arm around them for a picture and their hands brushed across their ass a bit.

but fans are excited and brag later on that they "grabbed" them.

[Firespirit]

9. That girl was not a lesbian

Bi girls are the ones who hit on heterosexual girls.

I know this from personal experience. :7

[Bonobo]

12. Grabbing a girl's ass is a way of "hitting on them"?

Wow, I wish I had known that 20 years ago. I thought it was sexual assault.

[Firespirit]

14. Technically it is.... a lot of sexual assault/harassment occurs in bars

if you go by the legal definition of it.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

15. From my way of thinking it's a good way to get yourself hit

But it's by no means a good way to "hit on" me.

Sadly Chelsea's not in a position to be hitting the person who did this to her and then bragged about it. :(

[boppers]

13. Chelsea's het?

Didn't know she had declared one way or another. :D

[Catherine Vincent]

17. The person that said that didn't actually grab her ass.

A reporter reported someone saying that. It could mean something totally different. Like grabbing a "Shot" of her ass. Think people, think.

[Zachstar]

19. You think the homophobes care?

They will take it out of context and use it to push homophobic views.

[Divernan]

22. The quote is very specific: I grabbed her ass

I don't care if whomever grabbed her ass was straight, bi or gay - as someone else posted, a lot of sexual assault occurs in bars - late on a Friday night when people have been drinking for hours - I wouldn't send one of my daughters, or ANY of my supporters in to campaign for me in those circumstances. Rendell may have his own twisted reasons to campaign in bars - I very much doubt that he brings his wife, the Federal Judge along!

Reminds me of the time my banker dtr. was at a company Christmas party - lots of alcohol flowing, and some senior male officer walked up behind her and grabbed her butt. She whipped around and said,in a loud & angry voice heard by many people there. "Get your hands the fuck off me and don't EVER touch me again." Someone else noted Chelsea did not have the option to respond negatively.

There is a terrible disconnect here for any feminists.

[Arugula Latte]

24. What is wrong with people that they think it's okay to do this?

:wow: