Agreed. It is highly reductive to refer to GRRM merely as “American author.” His works have been translated into over 45 languages, and he has won award in (at least) England, Ireland, France, Spain, Russia, Japan, and Finland, not to mention multiple wins from highly international completions like the Hugo and Nebula awards, the International Horror Guild, and Time Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world. He is one of the most popular authors of all time and if there is a line where someone crosses over into international relevance, we could debate where that line is, but there should be absolutely no doubt that he is far past it.

What, all of them?

We need to figure out what to call him now, I guess. Can’t call him Prince Andrew. How about “Handsy Andy, Duke of Diddleshire?”

What is it exactly that you think I agreed with?

And yes, son, we’re all aware of how the post history works. Stop posting pictures and be specific. Your credibility is zero with me and I’m not going to strain to pull your point out of a screenshot.

And suggesting she staged her own sexual assault is not holding a leader’s actions to a higher degree of scrutiny. It’s a disgusting accusation in a long tradition of discrediting female victims.

Your position is as ludicrous today as it was yesterday. But at least today you seem to realize that it needs defending. Nothing you wrote here is remotely convincing. You’re manufacturing the appearance of circumstantial evidence at absolute best and straining through a heap of passive sexism to do it. But at least trying to explain yourself is progress from your lame attempt at haughtiness in the other thread. Eat shit, y’all.

Yep. If people don’t like DEI programs, they could always, you know, just treat women better.

I’m glad you don’t automatically dismiss that she was actually assaulted (!!!) I mean that’s pretty much the bare minimum everyone should do. This was captured on video. You can view it for yourself. Her guards did intervene, just a step too late. That does not mean she staged it for attention.

But everyone would love to feel smart and come up with some alternative theory of what happened rather than contend with the sordid facts.

Yes, thank you. It’s less overt of an assault on women then physically groping them, but it’s perhaps more insidious, because an environment of ignore-and-excuse puts ALL women everywhere at risk

It’s not about blindly believing all women all the time. It’s about believing them by default, and as you say, taking them seriously. In this case they were willing to discard the evidence of their eyes in favor of some pretty far fetched conspiracy theory, and considered anyone who didn’t agree to be some naive idiot. And they paradoxically claimed to take sexual assault very seriously, while doing this. SMH

In another thread about this episode people were saying the entire incident was staged by her to distract from other news. I got downvoted to hell for suggesting that it was anti-woman to believe such a conspiracy theory rather than acknowledge that a woman got groped.

The fact that she’s pressing charges should put the conspiracy theory to bed. Why would she take it into a courtroom for more attention if it was just a stunt to manipulate the press that week? I’m sure someone will double down on conspiracy theories to come up with an answer to that question…

It’s a good step. We need to see action now. I think the reaction from the rest of the country is not encouraging that this is the falling of small stones that will start an avalanche. Not yet. Let’s see him govern and let’s see others like him step up.

Completely inventing your own reality, freeform… I made my argument clear and plain. You declined to respond to it, and then declared victory. An impressive level of delusion.

You couldn’t debate it if you tried. But your lack of trying is noted.

I’m saying that men have groped women many orders of magnitude more frequently and Occam’s razor should apply. You can turn this into a false flag conspiracy and blame the woman who got groped, on zero evidence Just don’t claim you’re serious about women’s issues if you do. You can’t have it all.

The hand breaking could absolutely be doled out judicially. He didn’t say it should be done without due process.

One cannot simultaneously say that it’s a serious issue and then dismiss an incidence of it, plain to see on camera, with a conspiracy theory.

If I were the president of Mexico I wouldn’t be mingling in crowds like this at all, but yeah her security was wayyy too slow on the draw.

You just added more analysis :D

I’m just pointing out the words actually used in the article and what they mean. I’m sure you’re right about how it got this way.

That’s what I thought at first but the headline leaves out “from the world of organized crime.”

It sounds like they are making the distinction between organized crime and thieves operating on their own aka “petty criminals.” The word “petty” has many pejorative connotations but it can also just mean small in scale or scope, and that appears to be the meaning here.

You mean it’s not legally binding when Marco Rubio says “tch-tch-tch… now don’t you do that.”