Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Toward Impeachment

The first step has been completed to impeach Doorstop Twat.  Yay, progress!

I am aware that he is likely to squiggle out of this.  However, based on his performance to date, I remain confident that he will provide many more opportunities  to impeach him over sundry unconstitutional and illegal behaviors.  Among the serious political ones is also his apparent inability to keep his hands to himself or his fly zipped for more than five consecutive minutes.
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polydad

Keeping his hands to himself

polydad

February 10 2017, 14:42:14 UTC 4 years ago

Back when I was actively practicing martial arts, I got to attend a seminar in D. C. held by Ioka Cambine, who holds multiple black belts, one in Tae Kwon Do. She's about 4'10", ninety pounds or so, and caused me to spend most of the seminar on my head in the corner, by the expedient of throwing me there.

I would be highly amused to see the result if Mr. Trump were to try "grabbing her by the pussy." He *might* get to keep the hand.
ysabetwordsmith

Re: Keeping his hands to himself

ysabetwordsmith

February 10 2017, 18:04:02 UTC 4 years ago

>> Back when I was actively practicing martial arts, I got to attend a seminar in D. C. held by Ioka Cambine, who holds multiple black belts, one in Tae Kwon Do. She's about 4'10", ninety pounds or so, and caused me to spend most of the seminar on my head in the corner, by the expedient of throwing me there. <<

Wow.

I once saw an aikido master, not much bigger than that, throwing around people several times his size. I'm fairly certain that he was moving his body to provide plausible deniability.

>> I would be highly amused to see the result if Mr. Trump were to try "grabbing her by the pussy." He *might* get to keep the hand. <<

Yep.

I've made a few references to that sort of thing in regard to some of my characters. The Marionette comares, in particular, are highly trained mobsters. They just happen to be in the line of comfort work. They're still entirely capable of dislocating someone's thumb, or beating him up and stuffing him into a clothes dryer. Grabbing them by the pussy is about as smart as goosing a tigress.
johnpalmer

Re: Keeping his hands to himself

johnpalmer

February 11 2017, 21:43:05 UTC 4 years ago

Flashing back to a discussion I saw from Seanan McGuire about people saying it wasn't realistic for her women characters not to deal with sexual assault, and one of the things she responded was that the idea that this would be "realistic" and should be written... well, basically, that she wasn't going to open a window into that. I got the sense that she felt it was a kind of awful voyeurism.

And that kind of opened my eyes a bit - I'd never asked or wanted such scenes, though they do show up. I hadn't really thought about them as being as icky as that, and I realized that while the scene might not be, the desire for such a scene is.

Where was I? Oh, right.

I wanted to add to that thread, but it seemed like the wrong place to do it: I wouldn't consider it unrealistic that, e.g., Verity Price was never meaningfully assaulted. And maybe it wouldn't even be close - she might have the BAMF vibe that brings about politeness. (And I pity the fool who thought that she wouldn't be able to shake off social conditioning quickly enough to raise a fuss!) But I would consider a long running female character who didn't have *any* interactions in that realm (which includes talking to a friend, seeing it happen to others, being affected by it in some fashion) to be somewhat unrealistic.

And I feel like, sometimes, we don't portray better stories, especially more stories pushing bodily autonomy. I used to joke, if I had a daughter, I wanted my primary fear is her calling me from the ER, could I pick her up and drive her home? Just a greenstick fracture. NO!!! She broke *HIS* arm, but he rushed her and kept fighting after she told him to relax, and... anyway, it feels awkward to ask him for a lift, now...

Of course, some folks would jump on how a girl shouldn't go straight to violence. The assumption, automatically extended, is that *she* turned up the intensity too high, too fast. Not that he did. Even though we know that a great many "he" will push too hard, too fast, in the face of a clear "no".

I could then point out that, my hypothetical daughter *is* apologetic - he rushed her, and wouldn't realize he was beat, she didn't want to *break* anything, but, darn it! And now, wow, she realizes that he's going to be *really* bothered, not just like if it had been a simple arm bar and a bit of pressure and advice to slow down, show respect, and maybe we'll get *there* later, okay?

If it had been judo or wrestling, that he didn't tap out would be on him. That he (in this hypothetical case, and statistically extremely likely in the general) turned it from a touch or caress to judo or wrestling (or aikido, etc) doesn't register.

Where was I?

Well in the nowhere land in which a nowhere man is making nowhere plan, for hypothetical people who don't actually exist which would be... hm... nobody.

There's a song about that somewhere.