CALL IT QUITS, CUOMO
Abusive NY governor needs to walk away
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo now stands accused of committing sexually abusive acts against seven women, and one of the latest is very serious.
A much younger female staff member says he summoned her to help him with his cellphone, and when she got there, he reached under her blouse and rubbed her breast. Another former employee said he kissed her without permission and asked her to play strip poker.
Yet another said he asked whether she would have sex with an older man and wanted her to tell him about her sex life. He also reportedly touched the back and face of a woman he did not know at a wedding. A woman who worked for Cuomo for two years said he asked her if she had a boyfriend, called her “sweetheart,” touched her lower back and kissed her.
A former press aide alleges Cuomo hugged her too long and too tight, and when she pulled away, he pulled her back.
Cuomo says the women are lying or misinterpreting his harmless banter. He might want to talk to a lawyer.
The type of guy who expects to be believed — even over multiple women – is exactly the type of guy who offends women because he thinks it’s all about him.
Cuomo’s sense of entitlement is not unusual. Powerful men often treat women as objects, unworthy of equal treatment or respect. To fight this cultural epidemic women in New York have been fighting for a very long time to change the state constitution to include women in its equal rights guarantee. At the moment, women are excluded, so why wouldn’t men see themselves as superior to women in New York?
Cuomo holds himself out as a supporter of women’s rights, yet he signed a new law in New York a few years ago that weakened women’s educational civil rights and made it harder for victims of sex-based assaults on campus to prove their claims.
How many more women have to come forward before the people of New York start marching in the streets to demand his resignation?
Maybe more importantly, how do we punish the mainstream women’s groups that have stayed silent? Fake women’s groups serving as proxies for the Democratic Party are nothing new, but the truth about their real agenda rarely makes news until a Democrat offends a woman and they disappear. This time is no exception.
The organizations that emerge like angry Vikings when a Republican abuses a woman are nowhere to be found. They need to resign alongside Cuomo because their very existence contributes to the cultural atmosphere that imbues powerful men with the idea that they can do what they want, without consequence.
This is what it’s come to for women in America. The groups that purport to represent women will take their money in exchange for promising to spend it improving women’s lives, but then they spend it on partisan politics instead.
And you wonder why the #MeToo movement didn’t make a dent.