If this photo were taken today would the sailor be slapped with a sexual harrasment suite and forced to resign

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http://www.kissingsailor.com/photoproof.html

Oracle: LOL, I think you might be right!

Rainbow: This is as lightened up as I get. Just kidding! Hell I have a four day weekend so its all good here;)

Sarah: I wouldn't bring my wife around abunch of sailors returning from months out at sea and I don't think most men wouldn't either.

And Sarah, I understand that there are many misconceptions about what we are,were, and even will be as a society. I would be a fool to act like those times were just the good old times and lets get back to them. No, I am a futurist and an ideological person who beleives we need to focus on the future, not the past. My point I was trying to make is that men were less villified back then and maybe that is a good thing. Today many women are so brain washed by feminist ideology such as that propoted by NOW and by professors preaching that every man is a potential rapist women today would infact probably mace him if he were to make the slightest motion in their direction. Of course I know that there are bad men but not all of us are bad and would hurt an innocent person. In fact women are just as violent as men and perpetrate as much DV and crime as men.

Why didn't anyone tell me that life was not one big Disney movie. I thank you so much Sarah, Now I can embrace your socalist liberal philosiphy away from my wacky neo-con foundation.
Please, there you go labeling some one you disagree with as a fundamentalist political whacko. As I stated before I am not a neo-con how ever truth be told I do lean slightly to the right. I support the war in Iraq and I think Bush is a good guy (Yup, I said it). Go ahead and through all the labels you want at me. I am pro-gay marriage and think a woman should have a choice during the first trimester. And what makes you think that you are so right about every thing and that no one else has a valid argument? If so it is not I who has the blinders on. I am a moderate political person and it just so happens that the father's/men's rights movement has some very good points about eaquality. I am sure you will find some other way to twist my words or insert your own words into my mouth so twist away.

Also, it might moit be that men are being maced but there are men being shot in the back with shot guns by their wives and then their wife getting away with it legall. All because the man was villified in court and nothing was proven he was an abuser. Your NOW has made that so. Your NOW has made it so that Mary Winkler is a free murderess and her husbanmds name tarnished as an abuser.

Answer 1

If we were to split hairs legally yes. I think if america was under the same circumstances and we just came back from war , I think it would not have caused an harrasment issue. does that make it legally ok no. If it happened to me as long as the guy didnt try anything else it was a spur of the moment thing I wouldnt care it would be part of the excitment and victory

Answer 2

As they try to explain, the photo is staged, so no. It wasn't some random sailor grabbing a random female and planting a kiss on her. Sorry to ruin the illusion, but not everything is as it seems.

Edit: in any case, it's not that great imo as she looks almost unwilling. This is a better kiss:

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/GDF/D0043V~Le-Baiser-de-l-Hotel-de-Ville-Paris-1950-Posters.jpg

Edit: Let me ask you though, how would you feel if a random sailor guy grabbed your wife or your mother and kissed her like that? I know my husband wouldn't be happy. Every woman is not for the taking - it's time to stop fantasizing that the images you see of a past "golden era" ever really existed in the mainstream.

I'll recommend a book to you, because it seems you really need to read it:

http://www.amazon.com/Way-We-Never-Were-Nostalgia/dp/0465090974

Edit: *You* wouldn't bring a woman around those sailors? How chivalrous. Why can't a woman be wherever she wants without risking a sexual assault? And yes, if your mom or your wife had for some reason been caught in the midst of a bunch of sailors when one grabbed her and kissed her, you most likely would view it as assault. Life is not a Disney movie nor has it ever been. Men are *vilified* now, when the shoe fits! Prior to the women's movement they had liberties that nobody of either gender should have in the workplace, in the courtrooms and in the home. You're living in a neo-conservative revisionist history lala land, no matter how forward-thinking you believe yourself to be.

NOW represents mainstream LIBERAL views. If you took a poll on the positions they support , I can assure you both men and women - whether identified as "feminist" or not - will be right behind them. Just because some women back down when they hear of a group that's unpopular with the radical right that plagues this category doesn't mean I will. I actually know what they stand for and they stand for the same thing MOST liberals stand for which is helping all marginalized groups rise. If that offends you , it's just too bad.

Edit: And what is with the paranoia? Men are NOT being maced for approaching women, you're making things up or being dramatic - it's not happening on any large scale. If a man kissed a random woman and she didn't want to be kissed, then he deserves to be maced. Are you seriously trying to argue otherwise?

Answer 3

Actually it is not sexual harrassment, it is second degree sexual assault. I think the social climate is much different than it was fifty years ago, and indeed he would probably be charged with some type of crime. Disorderly conduct at the very least.

Answer 4

Actually he would have been thrown in the brig until his court martial where he would have been sentenced to several months of brig detention. He would have been stipped at least on rank and never been given a good detail the rest of his term of service.

Answer 5

I doubt it. If this were taken today, the ladies hanging out near the sailors, actually like sailors.

If it had been some random homeless guy, then that would've been a problem.

Answer 6

We don't know the full circumstances behind this photo. For all we know, it could have been staged and then passed off on the public as being totally spontaneous. I always thought it looked kind of fake. I know, it's just my impression.

Answer 7

Not if it's his girl. My brother did the same thing when he came home from Irak a couple of months ago.

Obviously if he grabbed any girl then yes, I think they would be able to sue. But like someone else said alot of woman out there would be wishing it was them.

Answer 8

No, because the woman was not in the service with him. She'd have no grounds to sue.

But, hey -- he's a good looking man (and from Houston at that!), and they had just declared the war was over. Who wouldn't want to be kissed by him?

Lighten up, Joe -- it's the Friday before Christmas!

Answer 9

I'm sure that she's no strange women he just kissed. But it depends now on the situation. He'll probably get slapped for it. Not slapped with a law suit. Besides if it was me, I wouldn't mind being kissed by him, he's cute.

Answer 10

Sexual harassment laws deal with the workplace, not out in public, so technically, no. You could possibly argue sexual battery though, although it seems unlikely as there doesn't appear to be any genital contact.