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Questions raised by Elliot Spitzer’s “situation”
Posted By katie allison granju
If you were his wife, would you do - or be able to do - the Hillary Clinton/Dina McGreevey / Gayle Haggard thing and stand passively at his side as he admitted cheating on you with a hooker? Why do political wives seem so able to take this abuse and keep on keepin’ on?
And $5,000 a “date?” Are you kidding me?
FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS?
Mar 11th, 2008
And the answer is an unequivocal and resounding NO!! In fact, I would probably suggest that he contact his very expensive rent-a-friend and pay her to stand beside him. But that would mainly be because I would be busy shopping for everything required to furnish the new home that he will be paying for, forever. Yeah, the rent-a-friend would look like a bargain after I finished with him. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
But seriously, I do not understand why any woman feels that this is the appropriate action for this situation. I think the man who admitted this should have to face this alone. There is nothing in my marriage that is worth my self-respect, nothing. And no amount of money or position ever makes public humiliation palatable. It’s sad that these women feel that position and power are more important than a happy marriage based on love and trust. Very sad. But as for me, I have to sleep at night. And that’s mighty hard when you don’t know where your husband is or who he is with at any given time. Impossible, in fact. These women have my pity for what they are settling for… any woman who makes that choice has it in fact. Nothing is worth that.
These aren’t marriages… they are career partnerships. So, humiliation takes a second seat to preservation of the cooperative union.
Even though I practice divorce law, and am a feminist, I have been amazed by the public shift from admiring supporting your attacked spouse to demanding your leaving him/her to maintain credibility.
What bothers me in particular is that we spend more time worrying about our politicos’ sexual habits than their voting records or their criminal records (given some of the things that many politicians seem to do).
I’d be less likely to break up with someone over their paying for sex intermittently than for discovering that they were having a long-term affair. And I’d be very much less likely to leave them for paying for play than if they were misappropriating government funds, taking bribes for votes, or other deservedly criminal activities like that.
The problem isn’t the sex. It’s that the media, which is only obliging the public hunger for gossip rather than for important news, makes sure that the public gets informed of what really shouldn’t matter to us, and we don’t get the information about what we really should know — such as that this case began because of questions of money laundering. Why do we know more about what the paid friend in question looks like from the news and blogs than the possible money laundering?