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which_chickIf you go to Washington as a congressman AND you spend your time in office chairing the House caucus on missing and exploited children AND you say that the folks who troll the internets looking for young people to sex0r are "...sick people; they need mental health counseling" -- then it is a very bad idea to use IMs to chat up your pages (who are people under the age of eighteen). That sort of thing is not a part of staying in touch with your electorate, first off because your pages are too young to vote and second because, d'oh, you fucking pervert.
Couple of helpful hints for Mark Foley, who apparently could have used this information about ten years ago...
1. If you're over the age of eighteen, it's very bad form to chat up persons under the age of eighteen for teh hawt sex0r. It gets worse the more over-eighteen you are and the more under-eighteen they are. So, if you're twenty-two and chatting up a seventeen-year-old, that's not hideous. It's not wise, but it doesn't make folks cringe. If you're over fifty and chasing after seventeen year olds, that's a lot worse. People will cringe a lot if you do that sort of thing, you sick fuck.
2. It's unethical to use a postion of power and influence to leverage persons in your nominal employ into sexual situations for your own gratification. This is true if you manage a Blockbuster video store or if you're a Congressman. You don't fuck the staff. You don't TRY to fuck the staff. You don't chat up the staff or brush up against them or stare at their asses or tits. If you're the boss, you don't have any sexual thoughts at all about the people who work for you. Ever. And if you do, you bloody well better fucking hide it. If you have to, you can fire or reassign people out of your realm of influence but you DO NOT leverage them into sexual situations with you. Ever.
3. We don't care that you're gay. People knew you were gay in 1996. It's not the gay that is the problem, here, it's the fucking predatory sex behavior with persons who are both (a) underage and (b) nominally in your employ. Fucking idiot.
4. On the internet, someone is always watching. Always. Nothing that is on the internet or COULD BE put on the internet is as transitory as you think it is because someone, somewhere, has a backup or an archived copy. If you work for Comcast, don't fucking fall asleep on the job on some poor bastard's couch. If your dog shits on the train, clean the shit up. If you flash your dick, try not to pick the girl with a cameraphone. If you're married and happen to answer a personal ad for pervy sex that isn't for real and whose responses get posted for amusement purposes, someone's going to call your wife. And if you're a Congressman who IM's pages and asks them if their cocks are rock hard yet and how often they masturbate, that IM, typos and all, will wind up being headline news.
You poor bastard.
The final thing that pisses me off about this? It happily provides more grist to the mills of people who think all gay folks are sick fucking perverts. This country has enough damn hurdles to leap in order to treat queers like human beings and The ex-Honorable Mark Foley just added another. Asshat.
Couple of helpful hints for Mark Foley, who apparently could have used this information about ten years ago...
1. If you're over the age of eighteen, it's very bad form to chat up persons under the age of eighteen for teh hawt sex0r. It gets worse the more over-eighteen you are and the more under-eighteen they are. So, if you're twenty-two and chatting up a seventeen-year-old, that's not hideous. It's not wise, but it doesn't make folks cringe. If you're over fifty and chasing after seventeen year olds, that's a lot worse. People will cringe a lot if you do that sort of thing, you sick fuck.
2. It's unethical to use a postion of power and influence to leverage persons in your nominal employ into sexual situations for your own gratification. This is true if you manage a Blockbuster video store or if you're a Congressman. You don't fuck the staff. You don't TRY to fuck the staff. You don't chat up the staff or brush up against them or stare at their asses or tits. If you're the boss, you don't have any sexual thoughts at all about the people who work for you. Ever. And if you do, you bloody well better fucking hide it. If you have to, you can fire or reassign people out of your realm of influence but you DO NOT leverage them into sexual situations with you. Ever.
3. We don't care that you're gay. People knew you were gay in 1996. It's not the gay that is the problem, here, it's the fucking predatory sex behavior with persons who are both (a) underage and (b) nominally in your employ. Fucking idiot.
4. On the internet, someone is always watching. Always. Nothing that is on the internet or COULD BE put on the internet is as transitory as you think it is because someone, somewhere, has a backup or an archived copy. If you work for Comcast, don't fucking fall asleep on the job on some poor bastard's couch. If your dog shits on the train, clean the shit up. If you flash your dick, try not to pick the girl with a cameraphone. If you're married and happen to answer a personal ad for pervy sex that isn't for real and whose responses get posted for amusement purposes, someone's going to call your wife. And if you're a Congressman who IM's pages and asks them if their cocks are rock hard yet and how often they masturbate, that IM, typos and all, will wind up being headline news.
You poor bastard.
The final thing that pisses me off about this? It happily provides more grist to the mills of people who think all gay folks are sick fucking perverts. This country has enough damn hurdles to leap in order to treat queers like human beings and The ex-Honorable Mark Foley just added another. Asshat.
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Date: 2006-10-02 06:34 am (UTC)I think people are more likely to blame his behavior on him being a Congressman.
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Date: 2006-10-02 10:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-02 02:23 pm (UTC)consent: legal innovation and its effect on prosecutions for rape in eighteenth-century
London’ in G. S. Rousseau and R. Porter (eds), Sexual Underworlds of the enlightenment,
(Manchester, 1987) pp. 182-185.")
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Date: 2006-10-02 08:55 pm (UTC)Does anyone get the same kind of vibe off this kind of stuff as when they find pyromaniacs who managed to get themselves hired as firemen?
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Date: 2006-10-02 09:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-02 09:46 pm (UTC)Hrm. Learn something new every day.
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Date: 2006-10-02 11:55 pm (UTC)