{"id":17461,"date":"2016-10-08T19:53:19","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T19:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17461"},"modified":"2016-10-08T19:53:19","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T19:53:19","slug":"men-should-take-offense-too-at-trumps-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17461","title":{"rendered":"Men should take offense, too, at Trump&#8217;s words"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/160105_trump.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17463\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/160105_trump-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"160105_trump\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/160105_trump-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/160105_trump.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Media commentators are wondering about the impact that Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump&#8217;s ghastly references to women will have on the females who&#8217;ll vote for president.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, that&#8217;s an important story to cover. Trump was caught saying some pretty hideous things about women 11 years ago on that bus. He talked about seeking to have sex with a married woman, grabbing someone in her &#8220;wherever,&#8221; and making other disparaging remarks about women&#8217;s appearance.<\/p>\n<p>OK, he has surrendered much of the female vote.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering, though: What about the <em>men<\/em> who are offended by this clown?<\/p>\n<p>Men across the America should be equally offended on behalf of, oh, let&#8217;s see:<\/p>\n<p>Their daughters, their sisters, their wife, their aunts, their granddaughters, their girlfriends, their mother, their grandmothers, their great-grandmothers, their favorite teacher, their godmother, their daughters-in-law, their sisters-in-law, their mother-in-law.<\/p>\n<p>They should be offended on behalf of every woman who&#8217;s ever had a positive\u00a0impact on their lives.<\/p>\n<p>This story should anger not just women. It should infuriate <em>men<\/em> who must explain the meaning of Trump&#8217;s comments to their young children or grandchildren, or to a young sister.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media commentators are wondering about the impact that Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump&#8217;s ghastly references to women will have on the females who&#8217;ll vote for president. Sure, that&#8217;s an important story to cover. Trump was caught saying some pretty hideous things about women 11 years ago on that bus. He talked about seeking to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17461\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Men should take offense, too, at Trump&#8217;s words<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[1424,6627,6626],"class_list":["post-17461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-mens-vote","tag-womens-vote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17464,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17461\/revisions\/17464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}