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So-called “victim” Jimmy Bennett is a creep… of the worst kind.
This opportunist sleezeball is nothing but a low-class blackmailer.

That Italian actress Asia Argento took him to bed is plausible, but extorting money from her after their interlude is low, extremely low. And if I am not mistaken, extortion is a federal crime.

While a sexual encounter is usually a pleasurable happening, it can also be problematic. A venomous serpent could be hiding in the mattress grass… Beware of virginal looking partners… They have the annoying tendency to spill the beans.
For any human being though, lovemaking is usually an alluring and fulfilling experience. But above all, this encounter has to be consensual. If it is not, it is a criminal act.

While a man sexually assaulting a woman is a fairly common occurrence, a woman “molesting” a man is rather unusual.
If it ever happened, I doubt very much that Jimmy Bennett desperately resisted Asia Argento’s advances. Any man (especially an immature teenager) would feel grateful that a woman allowed him to share a moment of intimacy with her.

So I don’t believe for a minute that little Jimmy strongly objected to being “abused” AND is “trying to seek justice.” What justice?

“I did not initially speak out about my story because I chose to handle it in private with the person who wronged me.
My trauma resurfaced as she came out as a victim herself. I have not made a public statement in the past days and hours because I was ashamed and afraid to be part of the public narrative. I was underage when the event took place, and I tried to seek justice in a way that made sense to me at the time because I was not ready to deal with the ramifications of my story becoming public.”

Do you believe this baloney? I certainly don’t. I tend to think that recently accused men seeking vengeance have orchestrated this charade against Asia.

Anybody engaging in any kind of extortion should be prosecuted, regardless of age and status.

Finally

People usually take sides in controversial cases . In this one, I firmly stand in the camp of Asia Argento. Lovemaking is not a crime, extortion definitely is.

Alain

“Noise is a parasite. Anything noisy is poorly designed.” Raymond Loewy

Pollution is one of my greatest irritant, and if it were not for a few morons this plague could be kept in check .

Pollution is everywhere. We have Air Pollution, Water Pollution, Soil Pollution, Radioactive Pollution, Light Pollution, Thermal Pollution, Visual Pollution, Noise Pollution…
We also have pollution in space, on the Internet, and the famous Washington swamp is more toxic than ever.

Let’s never forget that Pollution is a man-made product that benefits a few but harms all of us.

One of the most irksome and most preventable pollutants is noise. Particularly noise produced by motor vehicles. Most of today’s cars are very quiet, especially electric cars; but many “modified” vehicles and Harley Davidson motorcycles owners in particular “choose to swap out the existing exhaust systems for straight pipes.” It then generates an extraordinarily loud and disturbing racket.

“The louder the noise the smaller the equipment. Let’s get one thing priapically straight: Men who ride extremely loud motorcycles have extremely small penises. The louder the bike, the smaller their naughty bit.” 

The revving of a Harley Davidson motorcycle is highly irritating. Its repeated artillery salvos are enough to wake up a cadaver.
It does not have to make so much noise. A BMW motorcycle in comparison purrs when a Harley Davidson bellows, and noisier never meant better.

I already hear some people saying, “it is a free country”, but these people might not know the true meaning of freedom. It is written that “One’s freedom stops where the freedom of others begins.”
The minute you step on somebody else’s “freedom” your own so-called “freedom” becomes a nuisance.

Consequently

If you absolutely must make noise, move to a deserted island or make your tumult productive and protest something worth protesting; something like pollution for instance.

Alain

“Survivor” is a word that has been misused, abused and squandered.

Call me picky, fastidious, punctilious, finicky, nitpicking or even a pain in the derrière, but accuracy is important to me. Misused words are like recurring four-lettered words: they bother me.

Lately, we have heard a lot about the sufferers of sexual abuse. I definitely feel compassion and empathy for their ordeals, but to be correct, these individuals are not “survivors”, they are “victims”.

The dictionary defines “survivor” as “a person who survives, especially a person remaining alive after an event in which others have died.”

As far as I know, none of the plaintiffs have died. They have definitely been traumatized, and they were right to bring this issue to the fore, but nobody has died.

A cancer patient who is in remission or Elie Wiesel are survivors, a sexually abused person is not.

In the same vein, a horny teenage boy “assaulted” (déniaisé) by a libidinous woman is not a “survivor” but (in the eyes of many) a “lucky bastard”.

A robbery witness often describes what he saw as follows:
“The gentleman pulled a large caliber handgun and shot the cashier twice.”

Well, this man is no “gentleman’. According to a reliable dictionary again, a gentleman is “a chivalrous, courteous, or honorable man.”Anybody who robs and shoots another human being is definitely not an “honorable” person.

In addition, I intensely dislike the so-called French expression “double entendre”. A Frenchman would not understand the intended meaning of these words. The right French expression for “pun” is “un jeu de mots”.

Do not misuse words. If you do, you devalue them. Do not call Trumpland embezzlers “principled men”. There is nothing remotely honorable about crooked politicians who steal from their constituents.

And last but not least, please do not “assault” me for speaking what I believe. I am not exonerating the villains; I am simply correcting what I consider to be a linguistic error.

Thank you for your indulgence.

Alain