7:06 pm
From on the Down Low to Stepping Down
Posted by Garance ()
(Photo: A shop in the Minneapolis, Minnesota airport earlier today.)
Completing the pre-Stonewall morality fable, Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho will announce his resignation tomorrow. Now, I find the idea of sex with random strangers in bathrooms as off-putting as the next gal, but really, who doesn’t think this move is really about the taint of homosexuality in conservative circles rather than the stigma of infidelity, hypocrisy, or the guilty plea? After all, David Vitter, whose actions were far worse in my estimation — in that they were exploitative in addition to illegal — remains in office. Shame on all of them.
August 31st, 2007 at 7:39 pm
I think this “straying is okay, just not with/as a faggot” hypocrisy is an update on the “having a child out of wedlock is forgivable, but not if the mother is black” bigotry. I wonder what it’ll be in decades hence. You know there always has to be something to be hypocritical about.
September 1st, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Craig is still denying that he’s gay. He’d be better off just admitting that he is.
September 1st, 2007 at 11:55 pm
I seem to remember, at least in the aftermath of 9/11, the narrative was put forth that engaging in illegal commerce means that you are funding terrorism, which means you are a terrorism. The narrative was specifically advanced with reference to Marijuana, of course, but surely the successful pimp/madam needs to launder their money, too.
So, can we call Vitter a terrorist now?
September 2nd, 2007 at 3:31 pm
Exploitative?
I’m not sure it wasn’t Vitter who was being exploited.
September 4th, 2007 at 12:57 am
Warren: The narrative to which you refer 1) did not take much hold in the public mind and 2) consisted of a somewhat controversial series of Superbowl PSAs. Not exactly the most virulent of memes.
Nevertheless, I’m sure that the New Orleans Madam in question was putting her money into the S&P 500 or levee repairs or something similarly worthy.