I remember, the very first time I heard the question,"If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” At the time I had no idea that this is a philosophical thought experiment raising questions regarding observation and perception. I honestly believed it to be some kind of supernatural experiment (too many Twilight Zones as a kid), which helped identify particular half aliens (not from other countries but OMG, other worlds), because WHO else would even consider this issue of trees falling and noise or no noise relevant. It bothered me for the first few weeks hearing this question, and of course it jump started my imagination into wondering, what else might have happened, but because no one was there, DID IT REALLY take place. That question was unsettling to me similar to the two questions, I even hesitate to write, as just listing them makes my stomach churn: what is on the other side of end of the universe, and what was here before we even had a universe. I quiver internally just contemplating those questions.
So, on Friday, we discovered yet one more wealthy, man, insecure about his own masculinity, had been accused of using his power and fortune to pray upon female employees. One more dude, afraid of having a small penis, fearful of being found to be nothing but a blob without his power and prestige, pounces upon the ladies praying, as Sally Field once said at the Oscars, “They like me, they really like me,," but not waiting for answer, because he knows they DON”T. LIKE HIM. One more guy big in the land of anything Trump, sexually harasses women, paying them off if necessary because he probably has no other way of really getting off, himself. Then of course the perp asks you weren’t there so did it happen?
RNC Treasurer Steve Wynn, bet that he, like Trump could fondle, force, and act frisky with the babes, because being Steve Wynn almost trumps being Trump. Are we aghast, are we filled with anger, or are we used to just one more larger than life guy shedding his layers of bull shit just to be found a phony and a failure! Tsk, Tsk, Stevie, shame on you, but then you are a Republican and shame is not a part of your DNA. Its beyond time to get riled up, that train has left the station, except for the club car still located at the White House. Its time to really look at the picture of men and women in this nation. It is time to ALSO understand that sexual harassment is evil, but just as evil, is the proposition that reproductive restrictions on females is just as much an assault. Lets get really angry and finally lump ALL unwanted advances on women by men (and self loathing Republican Female politicians) as reason for a revolt. Lets stop picking at parts of the problem and deal with the entire cancerous tumor!
