Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Legislature / Phillips Well, That Blows My Great Theory About Female Politician Intern Scandals
Posted by Betsy Phillips on Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 5:25 PM
I'm sure that there are female politicians right now who want to have sex with hot young people they can't get, but I don't think women in our culture are taught to feel the same level of entitlement to sex as men are, at least not yet. So, we don't see sex scandals from women politicians, yet (though there's every reason to think that we will in the future).
Anyway, my great theory was that male politician/intern scandals revolve around sex, but that, if we were to look into the intern program, we would see women misusing interns for something they feel entitled to, but otherwise can't get.
My prediction was going to be that female politicians would use interns to run errands unrelated to their work at the Capitol, like getting their cars washed or picking up their dry cleaning or cleaning their apartments, basically using interns as personal assistants, not interns, while male politicians use the program as a "dating" pool.
But, of course, Paul Stanley has ruined it for me. As Cara Kumari reports
One of the things that came out during the interview is that [Morrison] was often asked to pick up Senator Stanley's dry cleaning, take his car to get washed or clean his apartment. Outside of the obvious fact that sleeping with an intern is certainly crossing a boundary of appropriate lawmaker-intern relations, these other tasks didn't seem to fit into the educational aspects the internship was designed to provide.
So, my theory is shot. I don't know why male politician sex scandals seem all too common, but we've yet to see a really juicy female politician sex scandal.
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How old are you? I think less than 30. By the time women run for office they are too busy taking care of everything else to be looking at eye candy. This is a really lame post but I do appreciate your parallel language usage. All animals are male and female and humans are specifically men and women. Thanks.
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Oh, bullshit. Come on. You can tell that stuff to the menfolk, but I'm a woman and I haven't forgotten what it's like to turn 31 and discover what those 16 year old boys go through, when you're giving everyone the once over to see if you can take them in a back room and have your way with them.
And we both know you get another round of that in your late 40s, early 50s. It doesn't matter how busy you are; you notice.
So, I think it must have more to do with the fact that men can achieve status by fucking young women. Women achieve status by fucking powerful men. No boy-intern is, by definition almost, a powerful man.
But please, do go on with this nonsense about how women are just more saintly than men. Because that served us so well in the late 1800s.
