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Tosca's avatar

Maybe she wasn't in public service when the photos were taken.

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ontheotherhand's avatar

Some people will do anything to get to play music . . .

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GrannysKnitting's avatar

this raises the 'subjectivity' issue - something that person 1 would call sexual harassment, may not register for person b. This does not negate person 1's reaction, but it does explain why people don't react with the same outrage to the same things. I've had a drunk stranger sidle up to me in a bar, put his arm around my shoulders and stroke my hair. Was I weirded out? Sure. But I would not call that harassment. If he was doing it to a young girl tho, I'd have been over there in a flash. The guys I was out with asked if they needed to speak to him for me, because to them, that was harassment.

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Snopes Shop's avatar

She doesn’t

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Nuke Nerd's avatar

Well she resigned.

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oafishcad's avatar

If this was a man, this site would be dragging him over the coals. You know it.

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Pepe SheepDip's avatar

It's only in the paper because she has a (D) after her name and is in a powerful position on a committee investigating impeachment.

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David Brown's avatar

It shouldn't be forgotten that men are vulnerable too. I personally have spent more than eight years dealing with a stalker who posted a copyrighted photo on the Pirate Bay scumbags network and further abused me for sending a DMCA order to remove it. The photo itself wasn't explicit in any way, but the stalker captioned it to portray me as homosexual for his own gratification and linked to it hundreds of times in posts portraying me as a sex offender. Might just see if there's a way to turn the "revenge porn" law on his enablers.

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Pepe SheepDip's avatar

I hardly recognize him!

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The Villainess+'s avatar

He sent the photos so he's fair game.

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CC Vet's avatar

As did the affair with the staffer - it was during her campaign, not while she was in congress, at least the way the serious news sites are reporting it

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The Villainess+'s avatar

Meet people from far away lands and kill them...

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Pepe SheepDip's avatar

Yes, you are right, totally separate. I think I misread. She did apologize for the relationship with the campaign staffer.

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Perry made me do it Jesterpunk's avatar

Illegal and unethical are 2 different things. What she did was unethical and wrong but what her ex did was illegal.

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Otis Fuentes's avatar

And why are they sticking them out, all saucy like?

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The Villainess+'s avatar

I don't think anyone faults her for providing context, we know the news outlets certainly are not.

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