When I was in my early twenties, I passed out in a chair at a party. While I was passed out, one of my female friends and a bunch of her friends posed for pictures where they pretended to give me a lap dance, stuck their boobs in my face etc. etc. A few days later they showed me the pictures like "this is what happens when you pass out" and we all had a laugh about it. The next party, she passes out. So I take pictures where I pretend to give HER a lap dance and stick MY chest in her face. Her then boyfriend (now husband) took the pictures. She wakes up the next day, I show her the pictures, we all have a laugh. She is the only one in possession of both pictures.

Now hypothetically if I were someone important (which I'm not), she could totally burn me with these SCANDALOUS pictures where I am sexually assaulting her and I would have no leg to stand on.

So when I see this picture of Al Franken where he is PRETENDING to grope this woman's breasts (his left hand doesn't even appear to be making any contact with her body and his right hand may or may not be making light contact with the area around her breasts)...and I consider that they are doing a comedy tour and probably there is alcohol involved between shows and probably a lot of horseplay and playful comradery...it gives me pause and I ask myself "is it possible that there is a missing picture in Miss Tweeden's set, where she is doing something to Al Franken, possibly in his sleep?" Or is it possible that she pulled some other kind of prank on him and this (albeit maybe in poor taste) was some kind of playful retaliation. And is it possible Al Franken denies the kissing story...because it's not true and she said it to bolster her story?

I'm not saying that is the case, I certainly don't profess to know what happened. But I wrote a personal story about sexual harassment where the facts and context were VERY skewed...and I have a lot of skepticism about this story as well...