Seriously. People make mistakes. We are human. We are flawed and fallible. Just because someone is a celebrity, or on tv doesn't mean they should be held to a higher standard. I mean, really, I would hold myself to a much higher standard than say, Lindsay Lohan (ONE HOT MESS). In fact, it was funny guy Craig Ferguson (who may be biased in defending his boss) who said "I quite like my entertainers to be dangerous. I like my musicians to be kind of drug-fueled," Ferguson said. "Cause if you want entertainers to be squeaky clean, then who are you going to be watching? Jonas Brothers."
All you can ask of others is that people own up to their mistakes, admit fault, and move forward with a learned lesson.
Damned if you do and damned if you don't, we judge those who cover-up and yet in the same strain, we judge those who come clean. David Letterman's extracurricular sexual exploits probably shouldn'y be filed under morally admirable behavior, but jeez, he didn't break the law. He had sex with a willing, of legal age young woman.
And HEY feminists, are you saying that a women who is younger and lower on the work totem pole is incapable of being a powerful man's sexual equal? The board room is NOT the bedroom. You ASSUME (naively and pathetically) that since he is older/ more powerful/ wears amazingly well tailored double breasted suits that she was pressured or mistreated in some way. In case you haven't gotten the memo, being a woman is one of the most powerful tools we have in our arsenal, and just because an "ambitious" "overacheiver" used one of her "additional assests" to get ahead, doesn't mean we should be calling for a workplace pandemic, or for Dave's head on a platter. So hey NOW, maybe you should consider renaming your club, "National Organization for Selective Angry Women", because you surely do not speak for me.
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