Why are you putting so much effort into supporting Mayor Morse? You didn't put nearly that much effort into supporting Tara Reade.
Mayor Morse shouldn't have slept around, and he shouldn't have slept with students, whether or not they were his own students. He didn't have to be monogamous, but he did have to be responsible.
It's difficult enough to get colleges and other institutions to put any policies in place to protect people from inappropriate behavior, and to discourage abuses of power. It's gross and obnoxious when people defend someone who hit at the meager boundaries by saying "He didn't break a policy." That doesn't mean that his behavior wasn't inapproprate.
Someone who has graduated from college is being a little bit clingy just by looking for college students to date instead of people who are taking on the next tasks of life, such as full-time employment, maintaining a home, and trying to develop social connections that are not just prowling.
If his being gay is relevant, it has more to do with thinking that advances in gay rights ought to be lessening the desperation and fear that led to a culture of promiscuity than it does with homophobia or discrimination. When people can't date in public because it's life-threatening, then it's understandable that people end up taking what they can get. When people have finally gained the option of having monogamous, much more socially accepted and legally protected relationships, they don't have to be monogamous, but they also can make the decision not to exploit negative aspects of their community's culture that ought to be in the process of being made obsolete.
If the efforts to entrap him were manipulative, that's politics for you. If they were zealous, that's college for you.
I'm not telling you to mind your own business. I didn't even know about it until Mr. Grim started Tweeting about it. Why are you so invested in that situation? Are you trying to recoup what you think you lost by supporting Ms. Reade without seeming as if you're betraying principles?
I wouldn't say that he deserves to be in disgrace. I would say that everyone can understand that he was too young to be a mayor, and he can take a break until such time as his priorities are unscrambled.
Now it's national news, unlike thousands of gruesome cases of sexual assault that people should be hearing about so that they can demand that the government addresses the world's lack of safety. Most people aren't going to follow it too much; they'll just add it to their mental stock of "false accusations against a male politician," and they'll see that you drove it.
If there are compromises that are being made about Vice President Biden now, they are compromises that shouldn't have been made months ago. People can say what they want about me; they always do. At no time have I said that the conversation about Tara Reade should end, and at no time have I launched an assault on the theme of allegations of inappropriate behavior in politics. Ms. Reade has no obligation to compromise; her role as the survivor is not my role as a supporter. I support her. I also hope that she won't be retaliated against.
You make people accountable when you can. When you can't, why capitalize on stories about false accusations?
You want to call me a bigot, you go right ahead. I have cameras in my house, right here in Massachusetts, where you're so interested in local politics.
