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Former Vice President Joe Biden is the latest powerful person to be accused of inappropriate behavior. The accuser, Lucy Flores, was a former Nevada state assemblywoman who was endorsed by Biden.
Florence described her uncomfortable encounter with the Barack Obama’s Vice President, Joe Biden, in a piece published by The Cut, called “An Awkward KISS Changed How I saw Joe Biden.”
Flores met Biden during her campaign rally in Nevada when the former V.P. agreed to speak at the event to boost voter turnout. She claims that while she was waiting to go on stage Biden came up behind her, placed his hands on her shoulders, leaned in to sniff her hair and then kissed the back off her head.
Multiple news sources have described Biden’s behavior as “creepy,” and many allege that this behavior has been going on for years.
In Flores’ case, she did not go to the media to out his behavior. In her piece for The Cut, she wrote:
“After the event, I told a few of my staff what happened. We all talked about the inexplicable weirdness of what he did, but I didn’t plan on telling anyone else. I didn’t have the language or the outlet to talk about what happened. Who do you tell? What do you say? Is it enough of a transgression if a man touches and kisses you without consent, but doesn’t rise to the level of what most people consider sexual assault? I did what most women do, and moved on with my life and my work.”
For years powerful figures in the U.S. like Harvey Weinstein, Roger Aires, and Kevin Spacey, quietly committed acts of sexual assault and harassment despite multiple, sometimes hundreds of people, being aware of the misconduct.
The #metoo and #timesup movements have helped give victims the confidence to come forward with their stories, but when is it enough?
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