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bunsen_hCBC, like all the other media sources, have been covering the Elliot Spitzer thing. There have been a few rather odd listener responses on As It Happens. A couple of women suggested that the matter was "at least partially" the fault of Spitzer's wife: that if she'd given him more attention, he wouldn't have had to go to a call girl. "I hope you feminists are paying attention", or words to that effect; definitely explicitly directing the comments to the attention of "feminists".
Well, y'know.
"At least partially"? They're leaving open the possibility that his activities were completely her fault?
Apart from the whole blaming-the-victim thing... this is a guy who was spending so much money on call girls that the financial transactions got red-flagged by his bank as appearing to be attempts to evade money-laundering monitoring/reporting systems. Where the girls' "booker" noted that he sometimes asked the women “to do things that, like, you might not think were safe.”
This is not something that could have been prevented if only his wife had given him more "attention". Nudge nudge, wink wink.
I find myself wondering about the attitudes of these callers, and just what they think are the attitudes of the "feminists" to whom they were addressing their comments.
"By day, he's a strong voice for law and order, vigilant in prosecuting sex-trade workers and their clients. By night, he's... not."
Well, y'know.
"At least partially"? They're leaving open the possibility that his activities were completely her fault?
Apart from the whole blaming-the-victim thing... this is a guy who was spending so much money on call girls that the financial transactions got red-flagged by his bank as appearing to be attempts to evade money-laundering monitoring/reporting systems. Where the girls' "booker" noted that he sometimes asked the women “to do things that, like, you might not think were safe.”
This is not something that could have been prevented if only his wife had given him more "attention". Nudge nudge, wink wink.
I find myself wondering about the attitudes of these callers, and just what they think are the attitudes of the "feminists" to whom they were addressing their comments.
"By day, he's a strong voice for law and order, vigilant in prosecuting sex-trade workers and their clients. By night, he's... not."
