Post by V on Aug 15, 2010 11:30:52 GMT -5
www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_212317392.shtml Here is the article in case anyone would like to see it.
The woman that this article is about, April Magolon, had been visiting the Disney theme park in Orlando, Florida in May of 2008. While she was holding one of her children, an actor in a Donald Duck costume came up to her and groped her chest and made "lewd gestures."
This is a children's theme park! I want to know if this sicko was drunk when he was doing this. Not that that's an excuse, but I want an explanation. Has he been fired? Has he been named as a defendant in this or another lawsuit? Does he have any priors?
I certainly DO hope that he has been fired and that he is named as a defendant. And if he had priors, Disney seriously fell down on the job when it came to checking this person out. This is, as I mentioned before, a children's theme park. Women come here, kids come here, whole families do. They don't need sickos dressed up like Disney characters molesting ANY of the visitors.
I have to admit that I think her claim of emotional damages (the extent that it emotionally traumatized her) seems to me to be a little bit outrageous. But, I am not this woman. She might be telling the truth and not embellishing a single bit. Everyone takes situations like this differently. It's possible that she's never been confronted like this before, that she's naturally just a sensitive person, and that when it happened all of the possibilities of employees doing this to other female visitors, or even to children, flashed through her mind. Who knows?
For some reason, however, this is something most people think women should just get over. It's not like she was raped or he put his hand up her skirt or something, right? Well, that doesn't matter. He shouldn't have been touching her at all.
A woman's breasts, no matter how tempting a man might find them, are not play things that they can run up to and grab onto whenever they want to, whether they know the woman or not. Just because society has sexualized that part of a woman's body does not give a man the right to act as if they are his possessions.
Just because there are worse things that could happen to a woman (such as all-out rape) does not mean that she should just be expected to, "get over it" when a man does something like this to her.
Just because a woman is a woman and a man is a man does not mean that he has the right to molest her. I don't care what she was wearing, what she was doing, what she was saying, or what mindset he was in at the time. Rape, harassment, molestation; these things are all wrong under ALL circumstances.
The fact that this occurred at a family theme park which is literally crawling with children, and right in front of this woman's OWN children no less, is beyond disgusting, vile, and reprehensible. This man deserves to be punished for this. He deserves to lose his job, to be barred from working in family environments from now on (as he has obviously proven a GROSS inability to handle such a responsibility), and he deserves to be sued by this woman, as well. And perhaps even by Disney for putting them in the situation where they were sued by this woman, as well.
At least, that's the way I feel about it. What say you?
V
The woman that this article is about, April Magolon, had been visiting the Disney theme park in Orlando, Florida in May of 2008. While she was holding one of her children, an actor in a Donald Duck costume came up to her and groped her chest and made "lewd gestures."
This is a children's theme park! I want to know if this sicko was drunk when he was doing this. Not that that's an excuse, but I want an explanation. Has he been fired? Has he been named as a defendant in this or another lawsuit? Does he have any priors?
I certainly DO hope that he has been fired and that he is named as a defendant. And if he had priors, Disney seriously fell down on the job when it came to checking this person out. This is, as I mentioned before, a children's theme park. Women come here, kids come here, whole families do. They don't need sickos dressed up like Disney characters molesting ANY of the visitors.
I have to admit that I think her claim of emotional damages (the extent that it emotionally traumatized her) seems to me to be a little bit outrageous. But, I am not this woman. She might be telling the truth and not embellishing a single bit. Everyone takes situations like this differently. It's possible that she's never been confronted like this before, that she's naturally just a sensitive person, and that when it happened all of the possibilities of employees doing this to other female visitors, or even to children, flashed through her mind. Who knows?
For some reason, however, this is something most people think women should just get over. It's not like she was raped or he put his hand up her skirt or something, right? Well, that doesn't matter. He shouldn't have been touching her at all.
A woman's breasts, no matter how tempting a man might find them, are not play things that they can run up to and grab onto whenever they want to, whether they know the woman or not. Just because society has sexualized that part of a woman's body does not give a man the right to act as if they are his possessions.
Just because there are worse things that could happen to a woman (such as all-out rape) does not mean that she should just be expected to, "get over it" when a man does something like this to her.
Just because a woman is a woman and a man is a man does not mean that he has the right to molest her. I don't care what she was wearing, what she was doing, what she was saying, or what mindset he was in at the time. Rape, harassment, molestation; these things are all wrong under ALL circumstances.
The fact that this occurred at a family theme park which is literally crawling with children, and right in front of this woman's OWN children no less, is beyond disgusting, vile, and reprehensible. This man deserves to be punished for this. He deserves to lose his job, to be barred from working in family environments from now on (as he has obviously proven a GROSS inability to handle such a responsibility), and he deserves to be sued by this woman, as well. And perhaps even by Disney for putting them in the situation where they were sued by this woman, as well.
At least, that's the way I feel about it. What say you?
V