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That should be the takeaway, but I think it's important to remember that rape culture "humor" was much more common 10 years ago than it is now.
At least the media is taking the problem more seriously. When this photo surfaced in 2008, it did not get wide coverage, and the "pretend groper" went on to a distinguished White House career. Those who bothered to cover the story were more bemused than outraged.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/12/obama-favreau.html
But sexual misconduct is horrible no matter who does it. And, not to diminish this incident with Franken, but 2 friends young sons were taken advantage of by their teachers over the last decade that I know personally. One was 13 and the other going on 15 when these incidents happened when they were students in their different middle-schools (Both young men are in their 20's now, 1 married with a son, the oldest married--no kids). It's sad that in my somewhat "limited" universe that I know 2 young men who were taken advantage of sexually by their female teachers, who by the way ONLY received house arrest and probation The young men were saddened, and their parents were livid, and they STILL aren't happy all these years later as you could imagine. With years of counseling, the young men have been able to "somewhat" move on from what happened, and I say somewhat because I've seen and interacted with both over the years and saw one of the young men with his son about 4 months ago (He calls me Auntie) because I was over his parents house visiting when he stopped by with his son. As for the teachers, the parents have heard through the grapevine that both are looking forward to being removed from the sexual offenders registry come 2021 (Gov Brown :eyes
even though in their 40's, and married with teenage children. To say that a sexual misconduct/abuse incident was MINOR enough to get some offenders off the sexual offender registry is ridiculous. Like I said, both young men STILL talk about what happened to them all these years later--all victims of sexual abuse of course never, ever forget about it. IMHO, there would be nothing in MY mind that would have me saying that any incident of sexual misconduct was "minor" enough to get an offender off of any sexual offender registry.
Enjoys it and is asking for it.
Slut shaming also crosses party lines
Given that women in the military are raped at an alarming rate, they shouldn't have to put up with USO people groping them as well 
I'm almost speechless 
