In the wake of Weinergate, CNN posted an article entitled, Stop calling Huma Abedin a victim. Abedin, of course, is Anthony Weiner’s wife, who I’m sure was, at the very least, embarrassed by the scandal, and perhaps angry enough to consider divorce.
The article quotes a couple of authors telling women to choose not to be victims. Instead, women should choose to define their own happiness. Oh, there are a couple of caveats—the advice doesn’t apply to women who fear for their safety or are facing financial ruin. But there is no discussion of what to do when your relationship is so emotinally abusive that you are psychologically traumatized.
In short, this story offers advice for women coping with infidelity whose partners are not sociopaths. Which is fine—these women need advice as much as anyone. But the article also reinforces society’s “just get over it” attitude, which makes life difficult for women dealing with true exploitation.
Read Stop calling Huma Abedin a victim on CNN.com.
ErinBrock
That could be a problem Katy…..Boo is his name!
KatyDid
oh I thought his name was Yogi or Betty.
Ox Drover
EB, I have an 18 pound certified bear chasing dog….see if Katy can top that, and I have two jack asses to skid logs and we will be your slaves from June 1 til the first snow flies and then you are on your own baby, I ain’t found no snow shovel that fits my hands yet! LOL
I’ve been out in those mountains when there was still 8 ft of snow left on the side of the road and paths to people’s front doors that were higher than the roof line….nah, I will pass on that much snow, if it gets up to arse deep on a tall elephant, I’m outa there like a race horse with a bee in his bonnet!
I just found one of my 8 green pepper plants is now a SKELETON, with every leaf gone. EVERY FRICKING LEAF GONE! And I found a big ugly green horned tobacco worm on my HOT PEPPER PLANTS….in fact, two of them….and 3 of their brothers on the tomato plants…my green beans look like lace work and so does the basil plant. I think those jalapeno peppers I grew so far have cost me in the neighborhood of $25 each! The bell pepper I got the size of a golf ball about $25 for it, and I ate the first ripe tomato tonight on my supper salad, a roma about the size of my thumb….about $25 for it….and to say NOTHING of all the labor and water and LOVE I’ve put into the plants. HUMBUG!
Ox Drover
I can sure as heck tell it is Saturday night and none of us have dates. Wonder where our handsome man is???? It ain’t a Sat’dy nite without our Hens!
ElizabethBennett
A date would be better than sittin here by myself
ErinBrock
Oxy….I thought you quit smoking….what are you doing hoarding TOBACCO WORMS!
That really sucks that you’ve decided to feed nature instead of yourself!
ErinBrock
I’ve got Holly……she’s chasing her kong around my office.
I slept in today……I think the ’emotions’ yesterday made me tired.
I was a bit on edge thinking he’d pounce through the door….since he still loves us and all! I kept the metal close along with the bear spray with safety OFF!
Ana
Oxy,
I’ve never heard of a tobacco worm…sounds disgusting!
KatyDid
Yes Oxy. Ya got me beat.
I only have one ass and it follows me where ever I go. But it is ENORMOUS.
Eb, having grown up in Iowa on the Minnesota border… Oxy is right, one snowflake and yer on yer own.
ElizabethBennett
I have my snowball and it is hittin the spot, but I am dyin of boredom over here!