Oh yeah, and that John Edwards thing
I know the whole world exploded after John Edwards revealed in an interview that he had had an affair in 2006. The world absolutely fucking ended. I mean, OMG, a politician lied about something. Wow. Newsflash, John Edwards just admitted in an interview that he's human.
Just stop okay. Stop. John Edwards never made any pretenses about caring what goes on in your bedroom (so long as it's between consenting adults, duh), so put on your big girl/boy pants and move on to something more important.
Yes, John Edwards, like some ridiculous percentage of married Americans (most of whom are Republicans, btw), and what he did hurt his wife and family. But, he told his wife and family, and they decided it wasn't appropriate to eviscerate him, so why is it our business to do so? Seriously. I don't understand why the private lives of public figures are media fodder (well, possibly because there are like 80 24-hour cable news channels and they need something with which to fill air time -- I suggest music videos since MTV no longer has that market cornered), except that everyone's private lives are to be made public for the enjoyment of other people.
This whole condemnation of John Edwards after he fucked up (hehe), admitted it, apologized to the people he hurt, and those people decided they could get beyond it is just another symptom of a culture that thinks that an individual's sex organs are public property. I realize that we want to talk about how infidelity hurts families, etc, but why do we have to hurt John Edwards more than he has already hurt himself?
Come on. I've had enough of this "haha, John Edwards did something bad" schadenfreude, especially from the feminist blogosphere -- a group of people who are known for being especially enraged when someone tries to persecute them for what goes on in their bedrooms.
John Edwards didn't kill anyone. He didn't break any laws. He's not even a Senator anymore! This story is fucking irrelevant and we need to stop talking about it before we make ourselves irrelevant and kill more braincells.
Just stop okay. Stop. John Edwards never made any pretenses about caring what goes on in your bedroom (so long as it's between consenting adults, duh), so put on your big girl/boy pants and move on to something more important.
Yes, John Edwards, like some ridiculous percentage of married Americans (most of whom are Republicans, btw), and what he did hurt his wife and family. But, he told his wife and family, and they decided it wasn't appropriate to eviscerate him, so why is it our business to do so? Seriously. I don't understand why the private lives of public figures are media fodder (well, possibly because there are like 80 24-hour cable news channels and they need something with which to fill air time -- I suggest music videos since MTV no longer has that market cornered), except that everyone's private lives are to be made public for the enjoyment of other people.
This whole condemnation of John Edwards after he fucked up (hehe), admitted it, apologized to the people he hurt, and those people decided they could get beyond it is just another symptom of a culture that thinks that an individual's sex organs are public property. I realize that we want to talk about how infidelity hurts families, etc, but why do we have to hurt John Edwards more than he has already hurt himself?
Come on. I've had enough of this "haha, John Edwards did something bad" schadenfreude, especially from the feminist blogosphere -- a group of people who are known for being especially enraged when someone tries to persecute them for what goes on in their bedrooms.
John Edwards didn't kill anyone. He didn't break any laws. He's not even a Senator anymore! This story is fucking irrelevant and we need to stop talking about it before we make ourselves irrelevant and kill more braincells.
Labels: keep your nose out of other people's bedrooms, politics
posted by Rachel at
11:50 PM
2 Comments:
Agreed. Except at the end when you said he didn't break any laws.... because adultery is illegal, isn't it?
No, anonymous, adultery isn't illegal in the United States.
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