Backfire?

Men who think with their dicks must be terrified of women, at the root of it all.

Take for example the accused, former, IMF chair Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Here is a man with a long, public record of creepy, disrespectful, objectifying, over-sexed behavior towards women. However, his position and wealth has more or less allowed him to continue on his little life with few consequences for his actions.

Now, he's actually accused of a real crime. (This is not to say there haven't been other crimes, just now he's facing charges.) The person who made the accusation wasn't in his social or work circles, she wasn't his social equal. She was simply a woman trying to do her job when she got caught up in an international scandal. The victim is an immigrant, a housekeeper, a single mother, a few decades younger than him, and didn't even know who (or what) he was when their lives intersected.

Now, he is living in posh surroundings, has armed guards on the payroll, is enjoying a standard of living the hotel maid could never attain on her own (and, frankly neither could he, since his wife is footing the bills). His family posted $6 million dollars bail to land him in the posh penthouse prison. And, now, in light of media coverage of details that, if true, damn him pretty thoroughly, he's hired a "crisis team" complete with former CIA agents and PR experts.

I really really really hope his gross and lavish outlay of money in pursuit of "getting off" back fires for him in front of the jury. Everything about his current situation smacks of a level of monied audacity that I hope most people find revolting.

And, even though there is a huge difference between "not guilty" and "innocent" . . . I hope the jury is able to wade through his "team's" spin and resources to get to the heart of the matter.