Last week I joked that I’m apparently the only person who (despite really trying hard) has never been sexually assaulted, abused or harassed. This week its no longer a joke. I am the only person. I mean, wtf???

First off we had Kevin Spacey. I mean; Kaiser Sause, for fuck’ sake. (Or was he???) molesting little boys in 1926 or 1984 or whenever. Whenever it was, it was bad. Netflix immediately cancelled the next series of House of Cards in sympathy with him. Ok, they cancelled it because the merest allegation of sexual anything but normality (or even gay-ality) can adversely affect your ratings. And so distance is required. Preferably long and certainly immediate. No point waiting for anything so sponsor-immune as ‘evidence’ or ‘corroboration’ or even ‘proof’. No siree, the weakest sniff of wrong doing and the guvnors go into ‘Weinstein mode’ and get the sand-bags out.

And then it shifted, not so subtly, to our very own Houses of Parliament. Starting off as ‘inappropriate behaviour’, like knee touching, thigh holding, bum-pinching and unseemly comments by text message (ALWAYS a good idea when you act like a total sleazebag to put it in writing, for posterity). And this is not junior people. We’re talking cabinet ministers and deputy leaders and high up, powerful dudes. No dudettes, as yet. But then the stories went to the next level. ‘He hugged me whilst rubbing his crotch up and down on my leg’. Like a fucking Labrador. Full on sexual assault. Some things done were so heinous that no-one knows what they were but those accused have been sacked and thrown out of their party. Well, the tories throw out, Labour just kind’a make noises.

These allegations are so widespread, so sexual, so frequent, you’d think this was the Elysee Palace rather than that of Westminster. And yet this is obviously an international problem. Or rather, its a man problem. Why do men feel the need to exert power over underlings by sexually predatory behaviour? Is it in our DNA? Chromosomal?? Is it true that ‘all men are rapists’? The sad thing is; it looks that way.

But I blame God. Because when He (definitely a ‘he’ for this argument) made women, he made them soft and tactile, and if this was ‘in his own image’, I wanna see him. Let’s face it; He did a pretty good job, generally. And sadly, men in a position of power feel they can act upon this rather base desire. To touch women. And often more.

And in a way the Weinsteins and Spaceys of this world, although just as evil, lack the pure hypocrisy of their political perv-mates. These are the people making the laws. Telling us how to behave. And that is completely wrong.

Happy Saturday

A xxxx