Preface: One, it is neither my intent to blog about Silda Spitzer, nor to pass judgment. She only serves as the vehicle of this discussion. Two, I find it aggravating when discussing issues pertaining to women that some can not, or will not, distinguish between the concepts of contribute and blame. I hold that a person can contribute to a problem while falling short of being blamed for it. In the real world, people are seldom one hundred percent responsible for anything. Three, I do not feel that Dr. Laura is blaming Silda Spitrer for her husband’s behavior.
So, what alternative path should, could, Silda Spitzer have traveled?
From the left, Linda Hirshman, Slate, “The Silda Spitzer Lesson: Don’t quit your day job.”
Wife again standing mutely at his side, Eliot Spitzer resigned from his office as governor of the state of New York. When Spitzer’s wife, Silda, called Hillary Clinton for advice on how to be a good first lady a few years ago, she probably didn’t realize how horribly relevant the connection would be. Now, another blond deer caught in the headlights standing by her man rotates endlessly on our TV screens while pundits like Dr. Laura debate whether she was good enough in bed and saner voices implore the public not to blame the victim.
Hat Tip: Hot Air.
From the right, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, by Mike Celizic, MSNBC:
“When the wife does not focus in on the needs and the feelings, sexually, personally, to make him feel like a man, to make him feel like a success, to make him feel like her hero, he’s very susceptible to the charm of some other woman making him feel what he needs,” the popular psychologist and radio personality said.
Hat Tip: John Hawkins, Conservative Grapevine.
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