Do you have any women in your life? Ask one of them if she would feel comfortable getting accosted by a cursory acquaintance and his friends in the middle of the night when they are drunk. It's not a mitigating factor.
A group of drunk men tried to get into the car of a lone woman in the middle of the night. It's common sense to see that as unacceptable behavior. To empathize is common decency. Both traits of a grown-up, mature person. Feeling the need to defend that behavior is not.
It's fine to think it's not as big of a deal as some make it out to be. It's understandable to not want to throw Auston to the wolves because of this. But the behavior itself is not fine.
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One of them has even insisted on sleeping in the same bed as me for the past 20 years even though I’m all elbows.
Honestly, these women in my life consume so much of my time that I simply don’t have enough available to waste it scouring the internet looking for trivial bullshit to be outraged by so I can dawn my white armour to try and convince other women I don’t know that I am forward thinking and progressive, and not just another one of these horrible, troglodytic white males who was born privileged.
Hey, I did ask one. Not only did she say she would not be comfortable in those circumstances, she also said she would never take a job in a profession that would require her to deal with such possibilities, and far worse, on a regular basis.
And believe it or not, this particular woman was raised in a military family in an unincorporated county in a Midwestern state where concealed carry is legal, in a household that contained dozens of firearms, firearms that she was trained to use before the age of 10. And despite that upbringing, she still wouldn’t work as a security guard patrolling solo overnight.
But I digress.
Let’s all get back to crucifying a kid, who in light of his public celebrity chose to pull an extremely ill-convinced, extremely stupid prank on a trained professional, and is now facing a MISDEMEANOR, the lowest criminal charge possible. THE HORROR!