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[easilyirritable]

Does the fact that I am gleeful over Foley's resignation and the GOP's complete and utter failure to do anything about his pervy ass in the first place make me a bad person?

For your early morning reading pleasure:

Maf54 (7:53:54 PM): do you really do it face down

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[ironed_orchid]

I'm thinking that if people in public positions are going to be pervy bastards, then it's not necessarily a bad thing that they should also bring down those that turned a blind eye to their pervy activities. And if the covering up reflects badly on the whole party, well maybe that happens for a reason.

[easilyirritable]

Agreed. Let's just hope that something actually comes of it, this time.

Perversion Allowed.

[olamina]

I'm not mad at this guy. I heard he sent harassing emails. This doesn't look very harassing to me. I am definitely not in favor of old folks pushing up on kids, but there should be safe ways for young people to explore their sexuality without being fucking crazy monitored. It is a very personal thing. I kinda don't see the problem with a little harmless cybersex as long as it doesn't turn in to a RL interchange where the young man's well being would be in jeopardy.

As for Foley, while he might have needed to do this in a more discrete manner, I am not gonna jump on the moral witchhunt band wagon with these people on Capitol Hill. Tey ALL have skeletons and I everyone should be allowed to have their kinks and perversions (and even be open about them) if they are not harming anyone or endangering anyone's well-being.

Re: Perversion Allowed.

[easilyirritable]

Does the fact that the kid felt weird about it and reported it to authorities over a year ago change your mind at all?

Re: Perversion Allowed.

[olamina]

I'd be curious to find out whether the kid asked him to stop. If he was asked to stop and continued harassing the young man, then he crossed the line. As I said, people should be allowed their perversions as long as they are not hurting anyone else.

The issue here for me is not perversion, it is harassment.

Re: Perversion Allowed.

[easilyirritable]

I'm sure you might disagree with me on this, but I do think the fact that the kid was a minor should have been reason enough for Foley to keep his mitts off the kid. I have no idea if the kid said no at any point, but I know that, were this a girl instead of a boy, and the girl didn't say no but indicated later on that she was uncomfortable with the situation, I wouldn't hold her responsible for not saying no, and I'm not holding the kid responsible for not telling Foley to fuck off. After all, s/he is in a position of relative weakness, compared to Foley, who has more power both in terms of position as well as age. I remember what I was like at that age, and I would have tried to play it off politely, even if I was disgusted inside. That's how I was raised, unfortunately, and I think the same goes for a lot of kids like me

you're not sorry, you're just sorry you got caught

[olamina]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_scandals_of_the_United_States#Sex_Scandals

[thinkbettersick]

this radio show I listen to has two people reading parts of these messages back and forth in funny voices. it's hilarious and sad at the same time.

The parts that creep me out are that the kid was a minor and that this dood was all righteous about not liking those sickos on the internets in public but in private, he was one.

[ironed_orchid]

Yeah, the level of hypocrisy is scandalous, in and of itself.

[erinin3d]

oh man, the Nightline coverage of this was HILARIOUS! ... I hope this works: