Comments on: Jenny Sanford tells all…

By: Susanamantha

Susanamantha — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 02:37:43 +0000

I think Art could teach a most interesting class in a university somewhere. I don’t know what discipline, and it would so diverse that a student would never know what to expect from class to class. What a wide world of reading would be done!

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:12:31 +0000

Tom Maguire: my guess is that there have been incidents where the wronged spouse was a guy. But they’ve been kept more private. There are likely a lot fewer of them, though, partly because there are not as many women in politics to begin with. The other reason for the disparity might be that, although women flock to men in power (as Kissinger said, power is an aphrodisiac), it may not work that way vice versa. Perhaps Kissinger ought to have qualified that statement—power is an aphrodisiac to women when it is displayed by men. It is less reliably an aphrodisiac for men, when it is displayed by women.

By: Tom Maguire

Tom Maguire — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:23:19 +0000

I don’t completely understand this need of the wronged spouse to publicly unburden herself (and it’s usually a “her”)

I get “never say ‘never’ and always avoid ‘always'”, but – can anyone suggest an example from American politics where the wronged spouse was a guy?

I’m stumped. I’ll blame a paucity of fish oil in my diet, a paucity of women in politics, and little public interest in men as victims.

By: Bob From Virginia

Bob From Virginia — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:32:19 +0000

I married to an Argentine so I learned a bit about the game is played down on the pampa. For instance, if Sanford thinks he is the last man in Sra. Evita’s life then he is as nutty as he appears, assuming that is possible.

By: Julia NYC

Julia NYC — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:58:12 +0000

It’s a shame Jenny disgraced herself in this way. As infuriating as her position would be, she does have the kids to consider and this is really making her look bad. Yes, Mark looks bad too, but then she got all of the sympathy. You gotta milk it sister! Hold your head up high, dress beautifully and keep Your Mouth Shut in public!!! But now she has squandered all of that good will and capital. She no longer has any class because everyone is horrified that she has done this to her children. Now if there were no children involved, I’d say, hey go for it, bring him down lady! Make it Even Worse! But that is not the case here, and so wives who are mothers have to step it up and have some dignity, as tiresome and as unfair as that may be, such is the burden of public life.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:58:24 +0000

This is part of the general chickification in which we are awash. I almost wrote ‘pussification’, but that would be vulgar. Look at the supermarket mags, for example: “Brad and Bimbo split up; her terrible pain”. Nothing new here, but breathlessly reported, as if none of the reading chicks had ever experienced same, and never would. This stuff is everywhere! May just be the chickees need to gossip and titter, but today there’s no neighborhood, no back fence to gossip over, so they buy it instead.

Artfldgr invests this with more significance and scholarship than I think is due. They’re just chicks.

With apologies to Neo! Not a chick, no siree.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:25:00 +0000

Splashiman: apology accepted.

I have long wondered how it is that Walters has come so far down the road from actual journalism to trashiness. She is so fakey-sugary that I have not watched her in many years.

By: Splashman

Splashman — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:15:00 +0000

@Neo: Noted. I apologize for my assumptions.

Regarding the Sanford saga, I forgot to mention something. I went to the link, and watched the first 30 seconds of the Barbara Walters video. That was all I could take before the gag reflex kicked in. Trashy tabloid TV, pandering to base emotions and cementing the demise of dignity and privacy — all with Ms. Sanford’s blessing. She and Ms. Walters are a perfect match.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:05:50 +0000

Actually Splashman: it hardly takes me any time at all to do the edits. And it was I who made the decision to edit the comments quite some time ago; today is the first time Artfldgr ever asked me to do it, as best I can recall.

I decided to edit his comments because I feel there is often a great deal in them that’s of interest, and I think in their raw form they are very hard to read because they are too long. I rarely edit them for anything except length. I certainly don’t always agree with everything he says. But I think he has a unique point of view that bears hearing.

By: Splashman

Splashman — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:04:11 +0000

@JohnC: Noted, and thanks for the tip. I’m new around here, obviously. It’s Neo’s blog, and she can do as she pleases, of course — it’s just difficult to watch. Well, life goes on.