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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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.
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The issue here for me is not perversion, it is harassment.
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1) As far as I can tell he never had his "mitts" on anyone.
2) Unfortunately the power dynamics for a 16-17 year old boy are definite than they would be for a girl in this age group.
3) From what I've read, the salacious IM'sdidn't start until AFTER the boys had finished the page program which means that they were in no jeopardy of losing their jobs if they told the guy to take a hike or simple blocked his incoming IMs. Judging solely from the excerpt you linked to, the boy seemed to be under no pressure to be so forthcoming about his sexuality. While Foley was definitely more of the aggressor, the kid definitely wasn't "playing it off politely" by telling the guy who he wacked it into a towel.
4) While I am not embracing Foley as family (he is after all a Southern Republican closetcase fool), I'm not trying to kick him in the nuts either. He's just trying to do the white man pose, the realness, if you will. Unfortunately this time, he wasn't ( ... )
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I still maintain that he's a creep, though, and I hope this causes lots of shit for the GOP. But that just might be my own personal pettiness at play here.
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Yeah I hope the Dems take the GOP to the cleaners with this one...I have fingers crossed that they just take a few body blows without sinking into the whole boring sexual/moral discussion.
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Agreed. The worst thing in the world would be if this turned into some gay-baiting thing.
Now I need to find some lawyers to work for so I can develop a mind like a steel trap, too....
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