| We live in a kick-them-while-they're-down culture. We love to see the powerful humiliated because it proves that they were no better than us to begin with. Yet we simultaneously imagine that because they're powerful and famous, they don't need the empathy that we'd desire were we in their stead. Instead of being moved by their suffering, we revel in it.How many of the pundits mocking Weiner have marriages that could survive the kind of scrutiny they have been giving his? Credible allegations of nonconsensual sexà ??the kind of thing Dominique Strauss-Kahn is alleged to have doneà ??are absolutely fair game.But when it comes to adultery and virtual adultery between consenting adults,it's way past time that prominent figures in the media loudly declare that it is none of their business, and they won't join the scrum. |
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