Recently I read a couple of tweets (from respectable sources, mind you) stating that Trump was\/is bragging he had secret intelligence about Macron’s sex life.<\/p>\n
I’ve been thinking about political sex lives for a few years now and am weary.<\/p>\n
I don’t care about their sex lives. Not whether they have sex lives or what sort of sex lives they have. Don’t care.<\/p>\n
There’s a great deal I care about when I consider whom I will vote for, but sex lives are nowhere among my criteria.<\/p>\n
Don’t care about private lives. Don’t care about adulterous pols. I feel bad for the spouses and children but that’s about it. It is highly unlikely adultery will affect my vote unless some gratuitous cruelty or intrinsic stupidity is involved.<\/p>\n
Yes, I’m still furious at Cal Cunningham’s flirtatious\/adulterous relationship, not because he had one but because he was dopey enough to sext or text or whatever he did just as he was a strong Democratic senatorial candidate from NC, a state the Ds only infrequently win, and was winning up until his sext life became a thing and then he lost.<\/p>\n
Bad judgment, bad timing.<\/p>\n
Some things many women seem to care about but I don’t:<\/p>\n
\u21d2 Office flirtations, in which an occasional sexual invitation is dropped. If I can laugh and say no without fear of repercussions, I’m okay with it. (The only times I’ve known an office without flirtations, I was working for girls’ or women’s magazines.)<\/p>\n
\u21d2 Incompetent office passes. Once, an elderly film producer chased me around my desk. Got that? My<\/em> desk. My office was small; he failed to catch me. I said to him, “Do you understand what sort of clich\u00e9 this is? You’re chasing me around a desk?<\/em>!?” (Fella was not in a position to affect my job.)<\/p>\n \u21d2 Pats on the shoulder and occasional hugs. Comfort and congratulations are easier to come by when some neutral physical connection is part of them.<\/p>\n Here are some things I do care about, especially if they are connected to a politician:<\/p>\n \u21d3<\/span>Physical and psychological abuse of a partner. That’s criminal, not a sex life.<\/p>\n \u21d3<\/span> Physical assault of a subordinate, or anybody really. That’s criminal, not a sex life.<\/p>\n \u21d3 Sexual exploitation of children. That’s criminal, not a sex life.<\/p>\n \u21d3 Exposing your privates in public settings. That’s criminal, not a sex life.<\/p>\n If it’s a criminal act, it isn’t a sex life.<\/p>\n If you’re a criminal, I’m not voting for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recently I read a couple of tweets (from respectable sources, mind you) stating that Trump was\/is bragging he had secret intelligence about Macron’s sex life. I’ve been thinking about political sex lives for a few years now and am weary. … Continue reading