Ariana Grande groped at funeral

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Aretha Franklin funeral bishop accused of 'groping' Ariana Grande apologises - Sky Newsapple.news/AOQmxnEikRYi9TpSgePf17A

That's much worse than the photos.

Let's stop calling it groping. That has semi comedic, Benny Hill-esque connotations. She was sexually assaulted.

Wow @ guardian coverage

they do seem to have a certain, um, misogynist perspective these days don't they

and this
"Images of the moment showed Ellis’s hand holding Grande well above her waist, with his fingers pressing "against one side of her chest.
BREAST Guardian he was touching (squeezing, feeling) her BREAST.

She looks so uncomfortable with it.

And he knows she can't and won't make a fuss, and that he can just apologise and move on.

That’s the worst part isn’t it, knowing that she can’t/won’t make a fuss, even though Aretha herself probably would have smacked the fucker in the face! The power he has in that knowledge is the problem.

Urgh. I've just watched the video

And this is what he does when the world is watching...

My guess is he didn't do this 'knowingly', rather that - worse - it's habitual.

He said he hugged all the performers during Friday’s eight-hour service. “I hug all the female artists and the male artists,” Ellis said. “Everybody that was up, I shook their hands and hugged them. That’s what we are all about in the church. We are all about love.

Christian love doesn't require a lack of respect for other people's physical boundaries.

Poor Ariana. You can tell by her body language she found it horrible.

So much victim blaming, it's awful. Not her fault.

Used it to show my sons what not to do. Ever.

God

we've all been there.

Poor lass.

Yuk! She is a very slim woman. You know the difference between firm ribcage and soft breast fgs!

Oh god!! That brought me right back to a time I’d rather forget.

Make a fuss Ariana! I support you. I’ll fuss with you. We all saw it. Everyone.

Fucking disgusting behaviour.

Thsy poor woman has been through a lot. Now this.

Just sick.

Ugh I feel so sorry for her. You can see what she thinks all over her face on the BBC video. His fingers are dug hard into her breast in plain sight while he’s talking bollocks about his 20 year old daughter saying he’s old and poor Ariana’s having to laugh along..

Totally disgusting.

He's clearly touching the side of her breast very firmly.

Her face and leaning away says it all.

And on National TV at a high profile funeral. WTF does he do off camera.

Feel so sorry for Ariana

www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-45381687

If anybody was in any doubt, and judging by comments elsewhere online a fair few are, you only have to look at her facial expression and body language. Clear discomfort and “what the fuck are you doing” written all over her.

What a disgusting man.

Presumably he accidently squeezes the mens groins? It's so easily done and no harm meant.
No? What a shock.

Especially if their trousers were tight. They're asking for it.

Ugh, so many time their hand has been too high or too low but they always do it in a whoops, I didn't realise way. Seeing it done so publicly just makes me think all the times it's happened and I was too young/ not confident enough to tell them to fuck off. How can you be confident enough to sexually assaulted women with so many witnesses/ the whole fucking thing on camera???

I am fed up with women being worried about not being polite to say anything when something like this happens.
In the situation he knew she couldn’t react as she was in front of so many people.
Vile pig

As for what she was wearing, after telling my mom about an incident like this, 'Yes, but you are a very sexual person.' I was on my way home from work in a school in school appropriate clothing

Bar :(

Eurgh, my skin in crawling watching that. I’m really glad this is blowing up. Some of the Twitter responses are depressing though - why didn’t she move away, slap his hand, say something? The usual victim blaming crap.

Whereas any woman knows she was thinking: “does he know he’s doing that, shit, maybe he doesn’t, maybe his hand will move away in a second, god I hope it does...”

I just realised my earlier post meant I blame the women - I don’t of course!
I meant the society wants us to be polite and shut up and not make a fuss.

Haworthia - yes and I think she’s probably thinking ‘shit I am on tv with (however many 10000’s people watching) what shall I do?’