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About Mark Foley ... I got curious about similarities between Foley's AIM vs Wiener's tweets. According to the google, Foley waited until the young men finished their stint as pages (not subservient) and were over 18 (not pedo) before contacting them with sexual innuendo. It's slimy that he was scouting them while they were still underage, but he stayed on the legal side of those lines.

The consensual age and relationship boundaries serve some kind of social purpose, but we place such an amplified value on their meaning. Idealizing and infantilizing young women as fragile virgins though age 17 years, 11 months. Meanwhile, young men over 13 -- especially of color -- are objects of fear, and tried as adults.

In the office a compliment about appearance can be characterized as harrassment.. We say "please" and "thank you" and make decisions by consensus so everyone's voice can be heard. But "you look nice today" is off-limits.

I don't know what brought this on. Um, um ... Wiener did a Palin today.

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I bet David Vitter is laughing his diaper-covered ass off right now.

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as summer scandals go, this one was only a one whore diamond.

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Headline "Obama Brushes Off Weiner"?

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Ain’t technology great? I wonder what will be the next new thing that congressmen will use to solicit their private parts to the public and ultimately embarrass themselves into resigning? Something in 3D no doubt.

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" What we mean is, for all the mockery directed at Mark Foley and his AIM chats with younger gentlemens, he didn’t lie to the whole Earth for a month and bring immense shame to a wife and unborn child."

For all the mockery directed at Anthony Weiner, he wasn't a pedophile who targeted boys who were in a clearly subservient position to him, and he didn't belong to a party that was dedicated to keeping gays marginalized as much as possible.

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