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
Sorry Oxy Moxy…….fleas don’t live at this elevation…..garden snakes only…..and it’d be more than likely that i’d get a splinter UNDER my nails than a hangnail…..I MOISTURIZE! 🙂
I’m off to enjoy my ice cream!
KatyDid
EB
Please kin I drop a tent neath yer sky? I promise to wee downhill from yer place.
AND
I know how to make ice cream.
Hell I know how to milk the cow.
Hell I know how to AI the cow! (to make the calf so you have milk from dat cow. No. We don need no stinkun bull!)
Guess I know a hell of a lot, jus’ nuttin worth paying for!LOL!
ps I can make every kind of topping you’d want too, as well as the cone, on a wood fired stove….
Ox Drover
Katy, stop your whining, it is behavior unbecoming to a lady to belly crawl and beg….I can do it though cause I AIN’T NO LADY! LOL
ErinBrock
Katy…..Yes….but you’ll have to bring your own cows and tent and we will have to be out when the bank says so!
🙂
Caution….August brings the heatwave…..we might hit 82 and fry! Come soon.
ErinBrock
Oxy…..you come to….bring firewood. I’ll need some light in the yard to watch you and Katy belly crawl away from the bear!
Yeah….and bring me ICE CREAM TOO!
Louise
Katy:
Then maybe my X spath isn’t “torn” because I believe without a doubt he is a spath. He APPEARED to be torn, but he’s so good at conning that maybe even that was part of his ploy. He said the common things men say when they cheat…he did say she was a b*tch and they had nothing in common. He said it wasn’t until after the children came along that he realized they had nothing in common…ha, that did NOT make sense at all. It takes you six years to figure that out?? He did say to me that he felt like he was abused mentally by his wife, but that he deserved it because he had cheated. Hmmmmm…
Ana
Oxy!!!
KatyDid
Louise,
‘course he cheated b/c she was a B. The idea that he’d FIRST get a divorce and be available for a relationshit never occurs to those poor “torn”guys.
if he’s spath, ‘torn’ is the pity play. Seemed to have plenty in common with his wife when his dick was working; he also has amnesia b/c his mouth flapped “I do” when he didn’t.
now scuse me, while i perfect my whining. EBBBbbb!!!! I have TWO tents… fer when the bank forecloses. And I kin make firewood. I got a splitter and a good ax. If Oxy will bring a team, I kin skid logs!
KatyDid
Eb.
I’ll save ya from da bear. I kin say “BOO”.
ElizabethBennett
I wanna go by where EB is at? Are you in MN?