So yeah, the con artist was elected despite his history of criminal, fraudulent and yes, sexually abusive behavior

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and that says a lot about how depraved a large enough portion of our society is.

I would never attempt to speak for all women, but I, and many women I know, found it deeply and personally offensive that such unacceptable and abusive behavior was ignored or downplayed to such an extent that his election was possible.

It felt personal. Like people just don't care.

At this current moment we are all witnessing the lengths some will go through to protect men and women who sexually abused children in the Epstein matter.

It should never be ok to protect such deviant, horrific behavior.

Obviously there is a vast degree of difference between such heinous sexual abuses and assaults and other sexually inappopriate behaviors such as sexual harassment and unwanted and unconsented sexual advances. But none of these behaviors should be acceptable.

I believe that most people are able to go to work without attempting to kiss, grope, send nude photos, make sexual advances or jump into bed with intoxicated young people who work for them. I don't care how big your ego is, or how cute you think you are, you should never assume that people want you to interact with them in this manner. It's not normal. Again, most people do not do this. This is not workplace romance, it's repetitive, inappropriate behavior.

Whether Swalwell decides to resign or not, I will not pretend that any of this is OK or appropriate. I'm not going to downplay it, ignore it, or act like it's a no biggie. It's not too much to ask for people to behave appropriately at work. Most people are able to do so. We will never have a healthy society until we insist on as much.