Headline: How Joe Barton’s sex scandal fits into the current conversation on sex and power
Headline: How Joe Barton’s sex scandal fits into the current conversation on sex and power
"If everybody that was facing 'allegations' — including the President, members of the House and Senate — resigned, we'd have a lot of unemployed people walking around."
And why would there be so many people facing allegations? Oh, right, because we've said up until the last split second that it was ok to behave this way. Well, it's not. Power and privilege are supposed to come with equivalent extra responsibility and maybe we are now demanding that responsibility.
P.S. I still don't see how there's much of an angle where he's the victim, here. I mean, yeah, it's not ok if somebody released a naked picture of him (that he took, I guess, and sent them to begin with?), although it still boggles me that in a society that considers nakedness EVIL and mockable freaking everybody with a cell phone is either sending pictures of themself or somebody thinks they're entitled to take non-consenting pics of someone else and plaster them across the internet.
However, he's the one who threatened someone with an investigation by the police. He's the one who leveraged his position of power. He's the one who was having multiple sexual affairs while married. While that should be his own private business, I'm guessing as a conservative he's been lecturing and legislating how everyone else should live their private lives, thus making it pertinent to how he does his job.
Power in relationships - it matters.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/11/23/how-joe-bartons-sex-scandal-fits-into-the-conversation-of-sex-and-power/?utm_term=.5dd8fafafbd5
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/11/23/how-joe-bartons-sex-scandal-fits-into-the-conversation-of-sex-and-power/?utm_term=.5dd8fafafbd5
"If everybody that was facing 'allegations' — including the President, members of the House and Senate — resigned, we'd have a lot of unemployed people walking around."
And why would there be so many people facing allegations? Oh, right, because we've said up until the last split second that it was ok to behave this way. Well, it's not. Power and privilege are supposed to come with equivalent extra responsibility and maybe we are now demanding that responsibility.
P.S. I still don't see how there's much of an angle where he's the victim, here. I mean, yeah, it's not ok if somebody released a naked picture of him (that he took, I guess, and sent them to begin with?), although it still boggles me that in a society that considers nakedness EVIL and mockable freaking everybody with a cell phone is either sending pictures of themself or somebody thinks they're entitled to take non-consenting pics of someone else and plaster them across the internet.
However, he's the one who threatened someone with an investigation by the police. He's the one who leveraged his position of power. He's the one who was having multiple sexual affairs while married. While that should be his own private business, I'm guessing as a conservative he's been lecturing and legislating how everyone else should live their private lives, thus making it pertinent to how he does his job.
Power in relationships - it matters.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/11/23/how-joe-bartons-sex-scandal-fits-into-the-conversation-of-sex-and-power/?utm_term=.5dd8fafafbd5
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/11/23/how-joe-bartons-sex-scandal-fits-into-the-conversation-of-sex-and-power/?utm_term=.5dd8fafafbd5
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