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Donald Trump's banter bus
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Donald Trump's banter bus I know whenever I write about politics it makes me more unpopular than I already am but - fuck it - I don't listen and I don't learn!  We're not far away from the US Presidential Election, and a campaign that's largely been one long roll in manure was taken to a new low by Donald Trump's bus banter about women.It's the case that one gender doesn't know what's really said by the other in an all-male or all-female environment. When the ghastly tape of Donald Trump talking about grabbing pussy emerged he tried to pass it off as locker room banter. As if this is exactly the kind of thing that men say privately among themselves so while provocative, crass and offensive, it's actually normal. If you're a woman reading this and you're wondering what male banter is really like . . . Donald Trump is not normal. I feel uniquely well-placed to comment on this, having been to an all boys school and spent a lot of my adult life playing team sports and working in all male environments. It is true that when together alone men say things that, if you were a fly on the wall in that room you'd cringe. Not just at what was said but at the way it was said. I don't think is is just a male trait though, women are equally capable of making cutting remarks, and my friends online tell me that what appears to be sweetness and light in chat rooms is not replicated elsewhere - they get sent bitchy and threatening messages by other women jealous of their success. So what is typical male banter and what was different about Donald Trump? The infamous Sky TV tape of Richard Keys and Andy Gray is far more typical - i.e. talking about various women and discussing in ungentlemanly terms whether they are hot or not. Out in the open it sounds pretty<b> creepy </font></b>and embarrassing, and the reason the Sky TV tape was leaked is because Keys and Gray were unpopular with their production team. They were seen as bullies who'd got ahead of themselves - in the end they got what was coming to them - their banter wasn't unusual, just they did it too much within earshot of women who simply didn't want to know. As for Donald Trump - I guess his comments fit in with an anti-political correctness, 'say the unsayable' ethos he has. The problem is that he is portraying himself as some kind of maverick who somehow has the common touch. That's the common touch - not the pervert's touch, grabbing a woman by the pussy is sexual assault and is not something most men would boast about, even in the most impolite society. You would only do this if you are, as Robert de Niro says of Trump, 'a pig, a punk and a bozo'. You don't need me to tell you what Donald Trump said is right or wrong, however I think it's useful to point out to those that will never be party to the locker room environment that these are the comments of an extreme knuckledragger and are not typical of how men really talk among themselves, even the guys that you know are wankers or misogynists.  I thought to even things up I'd post a picture of someone that represents the best of America, unlike Trump, here's one of my heroes - Duane Peters (not running for election any time soon) |
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