Great article, from Jodi Jacobson at MS Magazine Blog, about the differences between Anthony Weiner and the other recent sexcapades…
I could not agree more with this article….
Weiner’s mistakes were nothing compared to the other guys.
I’m frankly tired of this story and ready to move on, but our Puritanical country and the hypocrites in Washington have to ride this a while longer…
Anthony Weiner is a very ambitious man who has taken a big hit to his career and his ego. But he is a good Congressman.
He is going to have enough to do to save his marriage and his career. This has hit him hard and he’s going to have to pay a lot of penance and eat a lot of crow. Let’s leave him alone to work through this so he can get back to doing the work he was elected to do.
This is all really none of our business….
Hat tip to Pam Spaulding at Pam’s House Blend where I originally saw the link to this:
Is it dumb and poor personal judgment for a politician to send photos of himself in various stages of undress and arousal to women who are not his wife? In my opinion, yes. Is it my business? Not really, unless he has, for example, been railing against “sexting,” faulting women, contraception, abortion, and gay people with the downfall of America and earthquakes in far-off places, or has been seeking to restrict people’s rights based on a bastardized version of morality. Is it even dumber to go on an “I-did-not-send-pictures-to-[that]-woman” pity tour to make himself look like the victim of hacking? Oh, yeah. He may yet be forced to resign for his stupidity.
But, I don’t necessarily think he should have to do so. As I have said here before, I really do not care in what sexual practices consenting adults engage or what agreements are forged between two consenting adults, especially if the spouse of a given Twitterer knows about and lives with her or his spouse’s preferences.
What I do care about is the “holier-than-thou” moralizing in which so many of these philanderers engage, and the fact that they both pretend to be better than the rest of us, and, even worse, attempt to legislate our private lives.
Weiner did none of this.
The others did.
Lost in the 21st Century 