I'm really pissed at the job being done on Anthony Weiner.
I was so pissed yesterday that I thought perhaps I should take a neck down picture of my nude 68 year old bod and "get it out there" with some caption that would hopefully make it go viral. My purpose was to be in solidarity with Anthony Weiner. It was like shaving ones head in solidarity with someone undergoing chemo.
You think not?
Well, please think again.
I know compulsive behavior when I see it.
I have a family full of compulsive behavior.
None of us do anything that is related to publicly displaying our sex organs, but I get compulsive all the time. My husband says - "you have a bee in your bonnet".
At 68 I finally recognize it for what it is - compulsive thinking that overwhelms my "in the moment" thinking. And now that I recognize it for what it is, I'm no longer controlled by it. I can say "no" to myself when it's not in my best interest.
After a terrible family tragedy, I was forced to recognize my own denial, my compulslve behavior on little trivial things, and other human frailties that were part of my own immaturity.
Yes! One can be immature into one's sixties and beyond.
I loved Anthony Weiner when he was in the Congress. He spoke for all of us.
I don't care whether or not his fellow legislators agreed with him or not. He championed things that others did not dare to champion. He did it by speaking out in a way people could understand him. I can't even remember what they were now.
I just know that he very clearly articulated issues that needed stating.
He has a problem.
We all have problems.
He is immature.
A lot of us are immature.
It is sad that he has this compulsion.
It's sad that some of us are born with Tourette's Syndrome and spout obscenities compulsively.
That's what it is to be human.
I am sick of Tweety Bird mocking him.
I just feel that Anthony Weiner is one of our guys.
He has value as a human being and perhaps even as a politician.
We've had a lot of sleeze in our leaders, even in our Mayors of New York - not all of course. But none of them have been perfect.
Tweety Bird is pushing some guy who's running who to me looked and sounded very sleezy. Ugh. He was on Tweety's show yesterday and wouldn't stop pounding Weiner, with a very smug, self satisfied look on his sleezy looking face, into the ground instead of trying to make the case for how he himself would be a good mayor.
I think Anthony Weiner belongs in public life. I'm not sure in what position. I don't think he's a sleeze. I think he has some compulsive disorder for which he is being humiliated. Maybe he developed it from all the teasing he got over his name.
He's out of control on this. He's out of his own control and is undermining himself and the press is helping to crush him.
When will our maturity reach the stage wherein we can recognize a disorder and realize a person needs some help.
His wife clearly loves him. She obviously understands that he needs help.
Goodness knows that there are politicians who have issues that are far more damaging to the public interest. He showed himself. ok. How many of our politicians have f....d around with boys and girls. They seem to keep their jobs even though they may have done personal damage to other people. Congressman Weiner only damaged himself.
So, I asked my partner, my husband, my guy of 47 years :
Should I take a nude photo and blast it on the internet in solidarity with Anthony Weiner.
He sweetly said "I don't think it's a good idea".
And after all these years, I have finally learned to trust that he is wiser than me and has better judgment than me, so I won't.