Discussion: Senators Torch George Will For 'Ancient Beliefs About The Realities Of Sexual Assault'

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To get through to him, they should have used an actual torch.

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George Will has always been a pompous, prissy horse’s ass. Now, apparently he’s a pompous, prissy horse’s ass with dementia.

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“Your thesis and statistics fly in the face of everything we know about this issue.”

A blanket statement describing George Will’s entire bibliography. Pick an issue, any issue.

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Amen to that

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George Will - contemplative/sober/intelectual/establishment Republican.

Think about that.

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Good for them…

I invite all who share their and my concerns and dismay about Mr Will’s positions on this important issue to address him directly via his email address (assuming he hasn’t closed it down by now):

   Georgewill@washpost.com

Here is what I sent him:

   Mr. Will,

   I am profoundly disturbed, and, on behalf of my fellow males offended, at your insensitivity to the extent that you have trivialized the problem of sexual assault in our society.

   I began working on this issue in 1990, and can tell you, after listening to hundreds of victims recount their stories, and then working as well with men and women who perpetrated sexual assault on others, that you have contributed profoundly to the pain of all, victim and perpetrator alike, who read your words.

   What all of them want most profoundly is to hear words which promote understanding and healing, not the kind of condescension and trivialization that you generate.

    If you want to have your eyes opened and truly come to understand this issue I invite you to come down off your lofty intellectual pedestal and spend a few weeks volunteering at a rape crisis center where you can sit in on support group sessions and hear the truth about what sexual assault is truly like, and, if you’re lucky, hear what it is like for women to live in a kind of relentless sexually hostile environment which we males impose upon them.

    You apparently have no concept of the depths of this problem or the damage it is causing to all members of our society, men, women, and children.

     Time to wake up.

     Dave
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To the glue factory with him.

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Will is a P I G.

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Conservatives are almost always WRONG about the facts. George Will’s column is just the latest evidence.

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what a monumental waste of time on a liar and a hack. what’s next, a ‘shame on you’ to that idiot in Oklahoma who wants to stone gays? why dignify these creeps?

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And yet The Post and formerly ABC (now he is on Fox) fawned over the guy’s constant lies.

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I wonder what items of privilege Will would ascribe if his wife or he were sexually assaulted.

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Did he get paid to write this garbage? He did?

He’s fine with it then.

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George Will is in no way an “intellectual”. However, he is intellectually lazy in that he fails to look at data or peer-reviewed information that is readily at his fingertips. He is unable to think critically but rather regurgitates what he has been told by uninformed others.

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George Will is a remnant of the misogynist past that has unfortunately survived into the 21st century, along with all the other knuckle draggers in the TGOP. His attitude is intolerable, and the application of a torch to his Jurassic Age ponderings is morally required…

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The first tragedy is the assault. The second tragedy is not being believed after you summon
the courage to tell someone about it.

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The GOP is obsessed with rape. Not a week goes by when some RWNJ doesn’t obsess about rape. They either want to redefine it, trivialize it, or claim it’s “Gods will” to produce a baby. Why don’t they just come out and admit that today’s GOP is pro rape and add it to their party platform?

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The man made a fool out of himself.

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To use George Will’s bloated and anachronistic parlance: “Oh George, you soulless and lipless ghoul, your writings are laughable and simplistic poppycock and have an infinitesimal effect on more conscientious citizens.”

So…STFU and ESAD!

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