The problem with sexual harassment crisis sweeping this
country is the infinite number of subtleties in the male-female dynamic. Rather
than tackle it full-bore, let us take one bite out of this unfolding drama:
A woman has accused Senator Al Franken of groping her
backside at the Minnesota State Fair as her husband took their photo. After the
incident, the woman says she “felt humiliated, and quickly walked away.”
Wait. This is a grown woman. Could she not have turned on
Franken and declared, “How dare you touch me like that!” She told her husband
what Franken had done. He is grown, too, I presume. If he is too “civilized” to
punch the “perv” in the mouth, at least he should have confronted the senator,
and commanded, “Don’t you ever put your hands on my wife!” Neither of
them did anything; both ran from an old, fat senator like two cowards.
Must others fight these most fundamental of battles that
aggrieved men and women should be fighting for themselves?
