Forgive me for ranting, and this has little to do with feminism, but allow me to send a big, fat "fuck you" to John Edwards. I used to think that John and Elizabeth were the perfect feminist couple. I guess not.
I am disappointed. I am fucking disappointed. I am disappointed with them all. All my fucking life, there have only been two men I've tried to mold myself into - Bill Clinton and John Edwards. If you didn't already hear, Edwards admitted to having an extramarital affair - all the while his wife was battling cancer. So, I guess all that tender and loving crap that he showed were just for show. I guess Edwards is just like others. To think - I looked up to both Edwards and Clinton - Edwards ESPECIALLY! I lost my respect for Edwards today.
You think Clinton was bad. He had a reputation for straying ...but at least he didn't fuck anyone when his wife was battling cancer. At least with Clinton, you EXPECT that he cheats.
I am getting to the point where I am molding my own political paths, without having to look up to any of these people. Do you remember that feeling of when you were a kid and realizing your parents aren't perfect or that your hero isn't a hero at all. Yeah, that's my feeling with Edwards now.
In the end, I am not America's Next Bill Clinton or John Edwards as I often claim to be. I am Marc, and I am going to be better than they were.
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Since when is making a mistake sexually the same as having an anti-feminist, unloving relationship?
I am in no way defending what John Edwards admitted to doing, but I am just wondering why it is anyone's business but his and his wife's. That is one thing that always with Clinton and Edwards now and all the other politicians and celebrities in between. The state of someone's marriage is none of my business and when it is brought out in the media like this it is even less my place to judge, because no one can know or even should know other than the person and the one they are in a relationship with. I can't judge anyone for their mistakes, because I make plenty of my own, but what is it about this country that makes people think they have a right to know what happens in someone's marriage and then judge them accordingly?
I'm not clear on how cheating is an anti-feminist action per se. For all we know, he would just as readily have cheated on his male partner had be been gay.
like i posted on the other blog comments section cheating is passive aggressive emotional abuse. so had he hit his wife or actually blurted out demeaning words to her and the public found out people WOULD think he couldn't do the job, so yes it is anti-feminist to abuse your wife in this way
i forgot to add this, but had he cheated on his wife with a man and he said he was gay vs him cheating on his wife with a woman are two different things. there are plenty of gay people out there too afraid to come out. so if he were to cheat on her with a man, i don't think it would hold the same weight. because he would be dealing with finding his sexuality vs him sleeping with another woman because he is being egocentric and knows all these women want him. well to me anyways i wouldn't find it excusable either way. because if he was gay he should divorce her and be gay. because couple's therapy couldn't make him less gay. whereas if they had problems in their heterosexual relationship couple's therapy could solve it, so those are two very different things.
PS. If he was BI that still wouldn't excuse him from being in a monogamous relationship either way with a man or woman. That is unless they agreed to having an open relationship, which it doesn't sound like they did.
also if fucking penguins and birds and lobsters can be monogamous why the fuck can't people do it?