Homosexuality

[fpb]

When I heard of the well-named Mrs.Robinson's lust-crazed behaviour and attempted suicide, I was disposed to sympathy. After all, I know better than most the situation of someone who warns against sins he knows - all too well. But when I heard one remark made by her husband - to which, one assumes, she fully submitted - then all sympathy flew

Comments

[affablestranger]

You always provide very relevant and very well thought out and considered food for thought, good sir.

[soonest_mended]

Hear, hear

[rfachir]

I'm so out of the loop - I thought you were talking about Anne Bancroft.

[fpb]

It's in Northern Ireland, so the scandal probably never made it to the USA. Besides, over there it would be fairly unremarkable - self-righteous female politician is found to have had lust-driven affair with boy young enough to be her grandson and to have used her position to finance his business plans. The most interesting thing is that this happens only days after the leader of Sinn Fein - Mr. Robinson's allies and rivals in a very uncomfortable joint ministry - has been struck by a far worse scandal (covering up for the incestuous child abuse performed both by his father and by his brother). It sounds almost as though one party did not want to let the other get away with an advantage.

[hejjhog]

I also thought of Anne Bancroft =)
And, I'd think a scandal like that would make quite a splash in the US media, too. Remember all the hype about the Monica Lewinski mess...

[fpb]

Ah, but she was American. If Americans cared about the sexual adventures of politicians from other countries, Paris and Rome would be thick with American journalists.

[panobjecticon]

'Communism is an abomination'
why so?

[fpb]

Where do I start.... the whole populations exterminated, the death camps, the death marches, the violations of the law of war, the extermination of the Churches, the corruption of everything it touches... Is it possible that there is someone left on this earth who has not read Robert Service or Solghenitsin?

[panobjecticon]

service, who? no, i'll check him out. solzhenitsin, yes. but i'm inclined to think that none of the reasons given are specific to communism as an economic/political system of thought and are more a matter of individuals, their subordinates and the execution (to use an entirely inappropriate term) of that thought - corrupted or otherwise?

[fpb]

You are ridiculous. Or would be, if you weren't playing clever critic on the graves of (at a conservative assessment) a hundred million murdered dead.