So not a surprise.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/mor ... ntestants/
Former Miss Arizona: Trump ‘just came strolling right in’ on naked contestants
Tasha Dixon, Miss Arizona in 2001, told the TV station that Trump just came “waltzing in” while contestants were nude or half-nude as they changed into bikinis.
Separately, BuzzFeed reported Wednesday that four women in the 1997 Miss Teen USA beauty pageant said Trump walked into their dressing room while they were changing. Some were as young as 15, BuzzFeed reported.
Three spoke anonymously, and one allowed her name to be used. “I remember putting on my dress really quick because I was like, ‘Oh my god, there’s a man in here,'” Mariah Billado, a former Miss Vermont Teen USA, told BuzzFeed.
Trump, she told BuzzFeed, said “something like ‘Don’t worry, ladies, I’ve seen it all before.'”
The Trump campaign, BuzzFeed said, did not respond to requests for comment. And BuzzFeed reported that 11 more women who had been contestants in the 1997 Miss Teen USA pageant said they “did not recall seeing Trump in the dressing room. Some said they do not believe he could have been there.”
As for Tasha Dixon, she only confirmed what Trump told Howard Stern, except with detail. She described to the Los Angeles TV station her experience with Trump as a contestant in 2001 in a dressing room where she and others were changing into bikinis:
He just came strolling right in. There was no second to put a robe on or any sort of clothing or anything. Some girls were topless. Others girls were naked.
Our first introduction to him was when we were at the dress rehearsal and half naked changing into our bikinis.
To have the owner come waltzing in, when we’re naked, or half naked, in a very physically vulnerable position and then to have the pressure of the people that worked for him telling us to go fawn all over him, go walk up to him, talk to him, get his attention.
She suggested that such opportunities were among the reasons Trump owned beauty pageants.
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dada » Tue Oct 11, 2016 9:08 am wrote:It seems to me that there's a desire to explain Donald's behavior away for the sake of 'social cohesion,' or whatever.
You know, 'Donald is just acting like a rich guy.' 'All guys in the locker room don't talk this way.'
Yeah, no shit. So?
We just want it to go away, for things to get back to the dysfunctional normal. As long as it isn't on the screen right in front of us, it's all good.
me wrote:It's a conundrum. You can't say his expressions or the actual behaviors he is bragging about are unique. They do reflect a kind of male mentality that is widespread, and they explicitly reflect the power and impunity of rich men, since after all he says one can do these things and fear no consequences "when you are a star." It's hard to find the proper weighting between condemning it as individually repulsive (and possibly indicating actionable criminal acts), recognizing that there is something systemic in it and that this also must be addressed, yet not falling into the trap of those who would accept it as normal because so many do it. That is Trump's own excuse, it's just a normal kind of "talk" in certain contexts that can be seen as exclusive from others.
That this comes from an operator whose career largely consisted at the time in getting ratings and accolades for slagging on women in reality TV and running beauty pageants is also part of the context. There's a market out there, and there is an effort to compatmentalize between the significance and effect of industrialized beauty pageants, which are kept acceptable and unrelated to the rape culture that obviously surrounds them and is attracted to them.
The Republicans abandoning Trump want to turn it into a purge ritual, as though their own culture and attitudes and policies toward women are completely unrelated. The Democrats want full otherization, as though nothing of the sort could happen in their ranks, or as though the future chief economic advisor to the Clinton White House is not himself accused of the same behavior, and may have done it alongside Trump on the same Epstein plane. The Trump supporters seek to completely trivialize it as harmless, or even healthy, or else to acknowledge it as unacceptable but reduce it by comparison to some other, unrelated, greater atrocity elsewhere. That is also his strategy: "Why you grabbing pussy?" "What about ISIS!"
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