Celebrity sex scandals are back in the spotlight after Andrew Young, a former staffer to John Edwards, published The Politician this week in which he chronicles his time working for Edwards, and the former presidential candidate's personal and professional shortcomings. Double X found Young's portrayal of Elizabeth Edwards to be even harsher than the unforgiving dissection of John: "Has ever a woman been tortured to such a degree? There must be something to these [many negative] accounts, since they all sound the same. But they only make me pity her more. Clearly, she was a woman driven to insanity, our own American Medusa, a beautiful maiden transformed by the abuse of men into a poisonous monster." Elizabeth may have had personal failings, but to sympathize with the cuckolded spouse, as The Lady Finger has done in the past, feels gracious.
In the mean time, Jezebel revisited the series of celebrity extra-marital affairs with a snarky commentary of the comparative, competitive tendencies we have when it comes to watching other people's marriages fall apart (whose heterosexual or homosexual transgressions were worse?) Their accurate equation: (Respectability) (Hypocrisy) (Public Nature of Family Values ÷ Likability of Wife - Number of Adult Kids + Number of Cute Kids) x Number of Affairs (Number of Mistresses) ÷ Homosexual Activity (Public Opposition to Homosexuality)√ Cross-Dressing - Physical Attractiveness + Kinks x Mistresses' Tabloid Confessions (Sex Tapes)Illegal Activity ÷Tearful Public Confession or Wife's Tell-All(Extant Out-of-Wedlock Child) = Shame Quotient -Sara
Monday, February 1, 2010
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