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Posts Tagged ‘double standards’

But, But, How Should Republicans Resign As New York Governor?

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Brriiinngg yip yip yipEliot Spitzer pissed off pretty much everyone in the world. This was Good For Society when he was going after evil rich people on Wall Street, but it wasn’t so noble when he was using the cops to harass his political opponents or infuriating his fellow Democratic legislators in Albany. This is why nobody ran to his defense as Spitzer huddled in his sinister, cavernous Manhattan lair waiting for somebody to tell him it’s okay to keep being governor. But there is one segment of society that is boldly standing up for Spitzer’s right to get caught in a federal money-laundering sting because he had to spend so much on prostitutes even though he “made his reputation” by busting prostitution businesses in New York. MORE »


Men Stray, Women Wreck

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Looking very Hester PrynneIn a perhaps unsurprising showing of this country’s women’s double standards, a NY Daily News poll shows that most women think Judy Giuliani is a worse person (and less suited to be the spouse of the President) than Bill Clinton because she’s a “home-wrecker.” Notably, while Rudy was the married one in their affair that ended in marriage, Bill was the one stepping out on Hillary for BJs in the Oval Office from a woman he had no intention of leaving his wife for. But, whatever, it’s never the man’s fucking fault, right? They can’t control themselves when presented with a piece of ass. [NY Daily News]