All posts tagged "Sex Scandals"

I don't want to keep hammering at this, but here's a link to my Alternet piece on why I'm so concerned about this whole Anthony Weiner scandal.  I won't revisit it at length here; please read the article.  My biggest problem is that the pretense of public interest was completely abandoned, and this was just a matter of the "ick factor". Now that this door is open, and simply making people uncomfortable is considered reason enough to condemn someone and demand their resignation, I'm really worried.  My gut feeling on this is that Weinergate really is confirmation of a suspicion I've had for awhile that America has quietly become more prudish in the past few years, and this is a very bad thing.

Rebecca Dana has an article up at the Daily Beast examining the question of why there aren't as many sex scandals with women at the center of them. There are many theories that are 100% bullshit: that women aren't as interested, that women only fuck up and so powerful women have nowhere to go, that women are too busy for affairs, that women are less careless because they have more to lose. The only thing that seemed remotely plausible to me was Emily Gould's theory.