{"id":5451,"date":"2011-11-01T10:15:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T15:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2011-11-01T10:15:06","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T15:15:06","slug":"cains-sexual-harassment-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/01\/cains-sexual-harassment-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Cain’s Sexual Harassment Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"

It does look like there may be something to the allegations, and there does seem to be some denial followed by backpedaling.<\/p>\n

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I would like to point out, however, that he was a male CEO, a person of power, wealth, and fame. This is often true of the men in the race, and in presidential races generally. When Norm Colemen was trying to get re-elected as Senator from Minnesota, very credible and verifiable details of his horrid “womanizing” (a term I never quite understood but whatever) behaviors came out, and no one noticed or cared or did anything about it except a few of us bloggers<\/a>. It took years for the John Edwards thing to come out. As it were. Remember Gary Hart? Same thing. <\/p>\n

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Is Cain’s blackosity a factor here? Does mainstream caucasionormative society tend to see Black Men as over sexual or sexually aggressive or something<\/a>? And if so, does this lead to a different kind of reporting when it comes to Cain the Black Candidate? In other words, is the extra attention to Cain vis-a-vis sexual harassment racially biased or racially motivated? <\/p>\n

Having said that, it may be that Cain has carried out despicable behaviors and I’m not defending that (or even discussing it without some actual information). <\/p>\n

And the, of course, there’s Fox and Ann Coulter’s take on this:<\/p>\n