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Cutting someone's hair? Assault? Really? Ever been in a locker room? We did stuff like that to each other all the time. No wonder today's kids are getting so soft. If Romney were a Democrat, would you even be commenting?
Yes, I've been in many, many locker rooms, and no assaults like that ever happened.
You must have gone to a really high-quality school in a high-quality neighborhood.
Obama vs. Romney completely aside, it's pretty damn depressing how many people seem to find this kind of behavior acceptable.
I dunno, I think a lot of the Romney campaign volunteers spamming this forum don't really think it's acceptable. It's just team red/team blue nonsense. If the exact same story came out but with the other guy's name attached there'd be no end of pearl-clutching and looking for fainting couches from them. It's how the game's played.
I don't think much of Mitt Romney as a prospective President, and this sounds like a nasty thing to do, but I will say that a great many people behave poorly in high school. So I won't judge him much on that.
By this, I don't mean to dimish the pain he helped caused. Sadly, it is very easy in unknowingly do far more harm than intended. I've certainly been on both ends of that in my life, I am not proud to say.
All that said, Mitt Romney should have repudiated acknowledged his specific behavior, owned that behavior, and forcefully repudiated it in no uncertain terms. I am more critical for his refusal to do that, as a mature man, than for his actions as a young, immature man.
I don't think much of Mitt Romney as a prospective President, and this sounds like a nasty thing to do, but I will say that a great many people behave poorly in high school. So I won't judge him much on that.
By this, I don't mean to dimish the pain he helped caused. Sadly, it is very easy in unknowingly do far more harm than intended. I've certainly been on both ends of that in my life, I am not proud to say.
All that said, Mitt Romney should have repudiated acknowledged his specific behavior, owned that behavior, and forcefully repudiated it in no uncertain terms. I am more critical for his refusal to do that, as a mature man, than for his actions as a young, immature man.
Cutting someone's hair? Assault? Really? Ever been in a locker room? We did stuff like that to each other all the time. No wonder today's kids are getting so soft. If Romney were a Democrat, would you even be commenting?
The people involved in the locker room are willing participants,big difference. That victim thought about that incident the rest of his life I bet. Someone deciding for you that part of your identity should be changed by them and you not being able to defend yourself against it stays with you.
But by all means please continue to say that this was nothing.
The people involved in the locker room are willing participants,big difference. That victim thought about that incident the rest of his life I bet. Someone deciding for you that part of your identity should be changed by them and you not being able to defend yourself against it stays with you.
But by all means please continue to say that this was nothing.
Oh please...Kids did stuff like that all the time back then. A girlfriend of mine had her pony tail snipped off from behind by an angry black girl in high school and she survived just fine. Another biggie were "wedgies," which kids got all the time (nowdays, there would be a sexual harassment charge and suspension no doubt.) Oh, and lets not forget the "t*tty twisters" and bra strap snapping done by the junior high school boys. Guess what? We all survived!
Oh please...Kids did stuff like that all the time back then. A girlfriend of mine had her pony tail snipped off from behind by an angry black girl in high school and she survived just fine. Another biggie were "wedgies," which kids got all the time (nowdays, there would be a sexual harassment charge and suspension no doubt.) Oh, and lets not forget the "t*tty twisters" and bra strap snapping done by the junior high school boys. Guess what? We all survived!
Didn't read it, huh? Romney did not like an underclassman reputed to be gay for the way he wore his hair. So he lead a band of thugs in cutting holding down the kid and cutting his hair with a scissors. Witnesses, and there are several, described it as brutal. It was not only assault, it would have been a hate crime if committed today.
Didn't read it, huh? Romney did not like an underclassman reputed to be gay for the way he wore his hair. So he lead a band of thugs in cutting holding down the kid and cutting his hair with a scissors. Witnesses, and there are several, described it as brutal. It was not only assault, it would have been a hate crime if committed today.
Yes. And so would the black girl's cutting of my white friend's hair. But it was back then. And guess what? Times were different. We survived!
As a 14 yr old at elite "Cranbrooke School", Romney was known for his "practical jokes" , such as the time he led a posse of his fellow little brown shirts, as they tackled a kid whose haircut Willard didn't like, and pinned the crying child down so Romney could cut his hair with scissors.
Or, there was the time Willard escorted a blind teacher right into a closed door.
... What a surprise! Scratch these privileged little buttoned-down mama's boys, and you'll ALWAYS a bully lurking underneath.
These could be seen as wayward incidents from a youth spent seeking a path in life. Except psychologists tell us our basic nature is set by age five ( Any of us who have raised kids can attest to the truth of that).
These stories will resonate, because they illustrate a central truth about Romney's nature that only get exposed accidentally in bits and pieces when he lets his guard down- that he's got a bossy, sadistic, passive-aggressive streak a mile wide, and he takes it out on people who can't defend themselves, who he thinks are "below his station" in life.
No wonder Romney doesn't "relate" to normal people. He isn't one.
They can find class mates of romney atleat
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, such as the time he led a posse of his fellow little brown shirts, as they tackled a kid whose haircut Willard didn't like, and pinned the crying child down so Romney could cut his hair with scissors.
Scratch these privileged little buttoned-down mama's boys, and you'll ALWAYS a bully lurking underneath.
