archie bunker wrote:
I don't read xxx stories alabuck. I just go by my experiences, and what I've seen, and heard from wimmen I know.
My wife, and my daughter KNOW that they don't have to be touched, or harassed in any way, and they won't tolerate it.
Once, the first summer after my wife, and I married (my second) we were at a barbecue for the employees of the company she worked for. I was over playing horseshoes when I/we heard her very distinctive, raised voice saying: "You touch me again, and I'll kick you in your motherf***ing head!"
Well, I headed over there, and went for the guys throat when she intervened, and shamed him off the property. I really think he was more afraid of her than me. And I was going to wear him out!
Maybe I'm biased, because I respect women, always have, and have seen some who think their cleavage can get them through life. Then when it doesn't, they've been taken advantage of.
I don't read xxx stories alabuck. I just go by my ... (
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Arch, I hope you realize I was teasing you about the XXX stories. Besides, its none of my business whether or not you read those stories.
While we’re telling stories about our wives, while not being related to sexual assaults, mine experienced sexual discrimination for a few years while working with a young man who thought,“... she was taking a job away from a man.” She has a mechanical engineering degree and we were both working in the same electric utility company in Western Kentucky. We were paired-up into teams of 2 for safety reasons. She and I were a team. The other guy wanted me to be teamed with him, but, given his bass-awards attitude about women, I refused. As you can imagine, dealing with high voltage electricity is dangerous under any circumstances. But, when one has to physically get into the electrical cabinets and hook-up electrical test equipment, the danger level peaks because one is clamping test-leads onto buss-bars that are carrying up to 4,160 volts of electricity and can kill you in an instant, after it totally fries your insides, first.
This guy had made it known to all that he didn’t like working in the same group with my partner because he felt that a woman’s place was at home. Once, he told me that, “... a woman COULD be a teacher, nurse, hair stylist, waitress, cook, or any number of jobs that didn’t require much education to do. But, being a professional, like an engineer or doctor, should be left to men to do so they can provide for their families.” In fact, his wife was a hair stylist who operated out of their house.
Well, once I relayed his comment to my partner, it flew all over her (we weren’t married to each other at the time). In addition, we found out this guy was going around to all of the customers our group dealt with and was telling them that she wasn’t a good engineer; that if she remained in this job, that she really needed to be an electrical engineer, like he was. Additionally, he requested that they ask for him to do any work they required from our group, instead of her. Another little bit of history from those days was that we found out he was the originator of the rumor that she and I were having an affair; of which we were NOT. No matter how much or how often we denied it, he kept repeating it; not only around the office but to the customers, too.
Once we took all of our proof of his bull-sh*t to our supervisor and he verified that it was who we said it was that was instigating the lies, he “helped” the guy get transferred out of our group and into a different group that didn’t deal with customers. Our supervisor, also, went with us to all of the customers who were told the rumors and vouched for her as an engineer and that the rumors about our affair were just a vicious rumor started by a jealous employee. Also, to make her point to him that his behaviors wasn’t acceptable, my partner threatened to follow him to Walmart and once he exited his car, she would begin to, “... whip your lying and scrawny ass all over the entire mother-f**king parking lot. Then, you can go home to your wall-flower of a wife and explain to her how it happened that you got your sh*t-f**king a$$ beaten-up by a girl!”
Another facet to this is that our respective spouses at the time were told about the rumor of our alleged infidelities. Her husband believed us. My (then) wife believed the rumors. In part because the person telling her about the rumors was her best friend, who just happened to live next door to the guy initiating the rumors. To make matters worse, my then-wife started a “revenge-affair” with a single man we knew from church. That lasted about a 9 months as he had a bad heart and died on the operating table at Vanderbilt Hospital. Later on, she met and married a local lawyer.
A year after my divorce, my partner and her husband split over his refusal to get a job instead of mooching off of her and bouncing bad chances all over town. She moved to Alabama after landing a job with a different group, same agency, doing the same kind of work. 6 months after that, I was told my position was being eliminated and I needed to either find another job within the agency or look outside. I managed to get a position working at a fossil-power plant in Alabama, not too far from where my ex-partner lived and worked. After I moved to Alabama and we decided to date. After about 9 months, we bought a house together, got married and moved in. All of that happened about 23 years ago. We’ve never been happier.