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Golden Kneepad Winner Is...'s avatar

I remember the day when a man's job depended on whether his wife could serve a tuna casserole AND a pound cake while maintaining that perky fillip to her do WITHOUT HAVING A TOTAL MELTDOWN (you know us ladies under pressure) and now they demand that a wife just not publish to 1/4 million people how despicable she finds her husband's clientele. OH THE SEXISM NEVER ENDS!

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What precisely is the difference between "huge following" and "significant influence?" Do you have number in mind? Does 100,000 followers get you the former, but the latter doesn't kick in until 101,000?Not every aspect of her life is fair game. Merely the association of her words with her actual identity. Is anyone defending posting her social security number, phone number, or even her address? All they did was link her real name to the words she said.If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. If you can't defend what you say, don't say it. That would seem to be a necessary precondition of a civil society.

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