Are Menopausal Men Fit to Hold Public Office?
June 26, 2009
by Puma for Life
|This essay originally was posted on the author’s blog. The author presents her own opinions, not necessarily those of The New Agenda.
Menopausal man confessing to an affair.
Well, we now have another midlife crisis, male menopausal man, holding public office, who is admitting to having an affair. This one cries and blubbers about it.
Hey, if he was a woman, do you think he would be getting any sympathy as he rides his emotional roller coaster up and down his lover’s body? Hell no; why, we would be hearing the usual misogynist comments about women’s hormones and emotions and how can we trust someone who cries to handle that 3 am phone call.Instead, we get this sympathetic piece that I found on Salon, exclaiming over the menopausal man’s human reactions:
He broke the formula. He got lost. He went too deep. He exposed his soul. He got all weird and human on us. His life had become an awful train wreck happening in front of the whole country, and it didn’t seem like he had any idea of how it was going to end up and he didn’t care who knew it.
I see…when a man cries and show emotions this is a laudable action; he is exposing his soul and getting human on us. Huh, I thought those were bad qualities to have. Crying and emotions and being human are signs of emotional instability and weakness; that is, if you are a woman.
Really, is it no wonder the world is in such a mess; too many menopausal men running things. Lordy, let’s get some women in there; all they have is hot flashes for a brief period of time, and a sweaty, red face that is a result of a hot flash, is preferable to one that is the result of keeping a concubine in Argentina. At least it is not immoral and hypocritical and a touch of deodorant and makeup will take care of it. (Ok, maybe some black cohash, a legal herb found in most health food stores, may be necessary)
One thing I can say about Obama, he doesn’t have enough hormones to ever be menopausal.
So, let’s take a vote, how many people think menopausal men should be banned from public office? The ayes have it. Let’s get on with it, ladies. Start running for office; crying is now acceptable and having a sweaty, red face is only human. Yes we can.
Not “yes, we can”. “Yes, we will.”
I have already answered PUMA for Life, in my blog:
http://syd4.blogspot.com/2009/.....-have.html
Glad to see that the New Agenda has picked this gem up!
HA! HA! Hilarious! Yehhh – if it was a woman fessing up she would be called a whore and symbolically burned at the stake. This is disgusting, he is only concerned about losing his political power and prestige and income, the jackass anyway! His life is not a train wreck, his life centered on his penis and his ego and his lover from Argentina and now he can’t have that any more and he is pouting via tears, self pity and it is disgusting. He should have stood up straight, stated he broke his wedding vows, psychologically violated his wife and shamed his family and is willing to fully own up to the consequences of his willful actions whatever they may be.
PS – if he spent so much as one penny of tax dollars on his fling or so much as one second of State time as Governor on his fling, he needs to be prosecuted.
Love it! Meow.
pumaforlife,
Bravo! Excellent analysis in exposing yet another huge double standard between the genders. I still remember the vitriol that followed after Hillary chocked up in Pennsylvania and I’m still not “over it”!
I think this message should be trumpted everywhere and consistently. I’m sickened by the amount of sympathy this guy is getting by the pundits for only speaking out because he got caught.
Frankly, I think the obama camp leaked his whereabouts in order to destroy his political career as payback for his opposition to the obama bailouts. They had the e-mails for 5 months and held them back. Why? There seems to be more to this than meets the eye.
I totally agree on the double standard.
But why is Sanford’s girlfriend a “concubine”? She’s a woman who made decisions we might not agree with, but concubine connotes social inferiority and possibly financial dependence or slave status. We have no reason to believe the relationship was anything but equitable.
Also, I can’t stop thinking about Nikki Haley, the candidate for SC gov who Sanford all but endorsed – how will this impact her campaign? Will we find that another woman has been harmed by this scandal? The thought makes me shudder.
btw, I think they have a name for male menopause: andropause…
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