Opinion: Sexting More Than “Frivolous Exchange Among Friends”

Wednesday, 08 June 2011 | by Pat's Picks

“Scrabble is a frivolous exchange among friends,” writes the New York Times’ Maureen Dowd in response to Rep. Weiner’s public downplaying of his sexting scandal, which he described as “you know, almost a frivolous exchange among friends.” Wrong, says Dowd: “Taking a picture of your deal…and blasting it into hyperspace to women you’ve never met is, you know, something more creepy and compulsive.” Dowd goes on to note the lack of feminist outrage over Weinergate when compared to Gary Hart’s Monkey Business infidelities during the 1988 presidential campaign.  She says it’s not that women don’t care, it’s just that “women have been conditioned by now to assume the worst.”

Joanna Molloy bring up another thing for the congressman to think about in today’s New York Daily News: “So Anthony Weiner’s reputation - and probably career - are totally ruined and he didn’t even get any.”

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