The latest RobFuckingFordFiasco is still developing, so maybe I should hold off.
But what the hell? Lookit that picture!
After a bunfest last night sponsored by Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Committee (whatever that is), Sarah Thomson, former mayoral candidate and no fave here at DJ!, posted that photo to her Facebook page with some allegations.
Former mayoral candidate Sarah Thomson says she wants an apology from Mayor Rob Ford for allegedly touching her inappropriately and making a suggestive remark to her at a party on Thursday night.
“He told me he was in Florida and I should have been with him because his wife wasn’t there,” Thomson told the Star on Friday. “I didn’t expect that. Rob doesn’t normally act that way towards women, so I was a little bit shocked and then we posed to get our picture taken and he grabbed my ass during the pose.”
Starting last night and ramping up as I type, all kinds of claims of lies and set-ups and drunkenness and substance abuse are flying around.
Ford's defenders are very LOUD. They're saying Thomson's story changed, she was drinking, Ford was NOT drinking (lookit that picture again), Thomson's out to get Ford etfuckingcetera.
She's being criticized for taking it to Facebook, for not being more discrete, again etfuckingcetera.
In short, she's being trashed.
However this turns out, on International Women's Day, we have yet another example of two seemingly eternal features of the patriarchy.
1. However a woman handles a sexual assault, it's the wrong way.
2. Women lie and can't be believed over men. No matter the circumstances.
Here's Neville Park's tidy summation.
She's well-connected, moneyed, with every privilege; he's widely disliked, history of lying—what chance do any of *us* have? #TOpoli #IWD
— Neville Park (@neville_park) March 8, 2013
Happy International Women's Day. Ford's timing is, as always, impeccable.
Bonus: Right now, Thomson and Daniel Dale of the Star are doing a live online interview. I assume it will remain available at that link when it's over. If not, I'll come back and update.
Added by deBeauxOs - Since Rob Fucking Ford's credibility is at issue, just thought I'd stick this in here, too.
Mayor Rob Ford has angered teachers and parents at the Etobicoke high school where he coaches football — and prompted an investigation by the Catholic school board — with comments the teachers say depicted the school in a “demeaning way that was filled with untruths.”Read the whole story.
UPDATE (12:45 p.m.) Team Ford is going with Total Mystified Denial. Not She Misinterpreted. Not I Apologize Not That I Did Anything Wrong.
And not only denial. He calls her a liar. As in this gob-smacking sentence.
What is more surprising is that a woman who has aspired to be a civic leader would cry wolf on a day where we should be celebrating women across the globe.
I believe that wolf will come back to bite him on his MASSIVE ass.
6 comments:
Sixth Estate left a comment and somehow I just deleted it instead of approving it. It must be true! I'm a closeted censor.
Sheesh.
SE was adding point 3. If a woman doesn't want her ass grabbed, she shouldn't *have* an ass.
Actually, that's not quite what SE said. ;)
Team Ford is going with Total Mystified Denial.
Right outta the movies.
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I knew it! Sixth Estate stands as yet another righteous martyr of the anti-free-speech leftist tyrannical fetus-bullying hordes! I won't stand for this!
Ahem. Anyways, you actually said it better than I did, so thanks for that.
We have some kinda strange karma, SE. I *think* I've only *accidentally* deleted-while-approving two comments. Both by you.
In explanation/defense, it may be due to Blogger's newish insistence that if I navigate away from a page, I'll lose changes. I just hit 'yeah sure whatever'.
So.
New blogger: Even more annoying.
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Yeah, I don't know how they do it. ;)
But then all bloggers I know complain about the platform they use, eg. WeirdPress.
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