It was shocking, even for Donald Trump, when leaked audio came out featuring him bragging in 2005 about how “you can do anything” to women if you’re famous like he is. Trump is known for making awful comments about women, but this was on another level — an explicit description, and even a celebration, of sexual assault. And soon enough, women started coming forward to accuse Trump of assaulting them in exactly the way he described.
Trump’s comments, and his numerous alleged deeds, are “shocking” in the sense that they are appalling, disgusting, revolting. But to me, and I think to many women, that doesn’t mean they are the least bit surprising.
That’s because to many of us,…
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