TN State Sen. Ken Yager (R) shames the legislative body in front of these high school girls..............

[riversedge]

I do not know why they were being honored, but Yager is actually saying this...........



TN State Sen. Ken Yager (R) shames the legislative body in front of these high school girls

Not for failing to protect them from gun violence. Not for the public school voucher heist

Nope. He shames them because they didn’t whistle at the teenage girls when they walked in

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[marble falls]

1. Tone deaf beyond belief. Did he also want the women in the house to cat call, too?

[Xavier Breath]

2. What the actual fuck?

That's an 11 on the creep-o-meter.

[Diamond_Dog]

3. These troglodytes keep setting us back 200 years

Plus, just ew. They will never get it.

[raging moderate]

4. His attitude was common back in the sixties.

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I am 76 years old, and I remember the attitudes that were common back then. Males were expected to show sexual interest in females, on the slightest pretext. Some of them felt obligated to do so, as this man apparently does. Ann Landers told us girls that it was not the fault of the man or boy who forced himself on us because we must have been doing something to provoke that behavior (which she claimed we surely must subconsciously want from our attacker). Movies and TV shows emphasized the sexual attractiveness of females. Even Star Trek episodes emphasized the sexual attractiveness of females. Almost all the early female Star Trek officers wore short skirts that (in real life) would frequently show their underpants, with bare legs. Many of the other females wore extremely revealing outfits. And the sound track frequently featured these odd musical lilts, lifted from the sexy movies of that time, apparently meant as a tribute to the attractiveness of some female or other. I remember trudging home at night in my little college town, exhausted after 12 or 14 hours of classes and manual labor, trying to dodge the bands of half-drunken young men who apparently felt obligated to express their masculinity, as I tried to get home for a bit of supper and a few hours of study.

[NanaCat]

5. Same in the 70s and 80s

In, I think, 1979 (maybe 1980), a guy was heading to my mum's operating arena right when I'd brought her something important she forgot at home. Anyway, he saw me talking to her before her team stepped up to get him ready for surgery, but he insisted on asking Mum how she knew me, he'd been wanting to ask me out for the longest time because he thought I was so pretty. That alarmed her, especially since she'd noticed I had barely glanced at him when I passed him, so she knew I had no idea who he was. So how did he know me?

Turned out he was a worker on a construction site that I had to walk past on a regular basis, and the workers there had catcalled me so much and with such aggression that I was actually scared to walk by them (I was a teenager). I started bringing my brother with me, and they'd still go at it so much that it made him even angrier than it did me. One or both of us would inevitably come home upset. And that ticked off Mum.

She gave him an earful about the awful way he and his buddies treated her little girl. It must have been a right bollixing (few can match Mum at having a sharp tongue in her head when she's outraged), because the next time I passed that work site, I heard nothing but dead silence until I was all the way down the block and turned the corner.

I never did ask her how scared it made him to know that a pissed off Mum would be the one anesthetising him.