Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Sexual politics and hypocrisy
Geo-sexual politics, did you watch the HBO series "Rome"? No, well visit the Metropolitan Museum and see the frescoes that were the old fashioned low techno version of "The Emperor" website which was to be the arena of New York's biggest scandal yet and fall from grace for a Governor. Note the name of the website and it is gives you a clue in to the need for feeling powerful -- the king, the boss, the emperor...
Sexual politics and hypocrisy made in the U.S.A. In this country we are bombarded with sex every second of our lives from early on until we die. It is on tv used to sell just about everything, in magazines, on billboards, in the fashion or lack of that we wear yet we are discouraged to actually be sexual. If a man is, he is considered a stud and if a woman is she is a whore. Double standard with a hefty price. The more women are diminished the easier it is to escalate from verbal to physical violence. I could write a book so back to hypocrisy.
In the city there are many rich and powerful people and they pay for companionship but they do not necessarily use a website and they and their companions will never be arrested. They will pay for very expensive clothing, travel which may include travel on private jets...blah, blah, blah.
Around the world there is fabulous wealth and they can do pretty much what ever they want and 80,000 dollars to pay for entertainment is not much to them. Too think how young people in poor countries are exploited -- is it horrifying and I am just too tired and emotionally drained from preparing to move after 20 years in my studio so I am pretty shell shocked from issues related to getting out of my one and only home...my first home but all I can say is in the wealthy circles in the USA and globally 80,000 grand is small change and there are men and women that pay for companionship. There are all kinds of agreements between couples or marriages based on money and looking back to the very rich including marriages of Kings and Queens -- money and property had everything to do with it.
We have very strange and rigid standards about sex that often contradict each other and I am too tired to give you a list. I find it strange that going to a bar and getting drunk is an acceptable form of mating and being direct and honest is considering shocking to give you one a example.
How ironic, if Spitzer had used an intern he might still be in office. Either way he is married and a father and it has to hurt the family. This was not a one time thing about a habit which he paid for and the price he paid was clearly bigger than he could imagine.
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