Exposing: Ailes, Cosby, O'Reilly, Weinstein, and Trump

WHAT DO THE ABOVE have in common? Wealth and fame, for starters. One of them is dead. all the others soon will be, as will we all in this short life. All are involved in the entertainment industry, successfully. And then the dirty linen. All would strongly appear to be sexual predators, with multiple accusers and accusations. Of the crew, only Trump openly and proudly proclaimed his sexually predatory prowess, and for that, he should be accorded grudging, strange credit, for honesty and audacity, if not morality. And look what it got him! The American presidency, and the unflinching approval of America's conservative and evangelical community. We should all be so adept at putting our sins to our positive advantage. These men are but the tip of the proverbial iceberg, or, if you will, the tip of an erect national phallus. roughly twenty five percent of American women report having been sexually molested. Many if not most of these reports are probably true. how many more have been ogled, groped, or propositioned? Female students on college campuses are notoriously beautiful, ostensibly arrogant and self absorbed, and unfriendly. Why wouldn't they be? they've probably been subjected to behavior they don't deserve to be. More so, the more beautiful they are. Human beings, especially modern Americans, are shockingly shallow minded. People in America are paid more, and achieve higher social status, for being taller, better looking, wealthier, and white. Verifiable research conclusively proves this. In America we objectify women, and they often objectify themselves. Our two fundamental social forces, capitalism and Christianity, inherently incompatible, fight hard to find ways, tossing and turning, to become bed fellows. Right wing Christians, somehow, find a way. commercial capitalism and advertising encourage lust, and encourage acting on it, Christianity acting on lust privately, clandestinely. This turns men into animals, and women into manipulators and prey. There are probably but a handful of American men who have not, at one time or another, behaved sexually inappropriately. Fundamental problems, like sexual predation, cannot be solved without fundamental social change. Now that the women of America are starting to speak up, it may be that the number of rats emerging from the garbage pile will suffice to force us to find ways of fundamentally changing our values, which lie at the root of all our problems.