The latest locker room stuff on The Daily Show has TMZ watermarked on it, so I went straight to the source. TMZ is really on top of it with this story. They have covered every position.
Apparently somebody is concerned he may have used Congressional resources in his "online exploits."
OK, I'm starting to get annoyed now. He didn't DO anything! What EXPLOITS?! He just took some snaps! So he messed up with Twitter. That's Twitter's fault for not integrating photo hosting properly. Somebody fund some technology research in this country already. Here's The Daily Show again. At 4:13 there's footage of a protest outside Rep. Weiner's office:
The signs say he's a pervert, a liar, and a cheater. WHAT?! I am completely baffled by all of this. Is Obama still president or is Queen Victoria our leader? And won't she please put her foot down this time?
Weiner took pictures of himself in the mirror at the gym, with all his privates covered, and people say he's a pervert? How can people be this sheltered?! He is NOT a pervert. A pervert would have somebody else take the pictures first of all. Maybe a pervert would take them completely nude, maybe dress up the private bits with a cowboy hat and some googly eyes. Even then, that's a harmless kind of pervert, like cosplayers and furries. What actually disturbs me more about all these pictures in the mirror, especially that one where I can see a toilet, is that he might be a bro, not a perv.
Now maybe my bar is set high because of online dating. I barely even consider somebody a pervert when they send "Do you like anal sex?" in an icebreaker message. They clearly don't think anybody will answer that. They have low self-esteem and know that if they say something that can't possibly be construed as a polite introduction then when nobody answers them it's not a reflection on them personally, just a reflection on this dumb thing they said. Yet they get some tiny bit of attention. That's kind of pervy. Sending a picture of yourself to somebody who ASKED you to be their friend online is not pervy at all.
Anthony Weiner is a politician. He must crave validation of himself. He takes pictures of himself and sends them to people for the same reason anybody else does, and people do it ALL THE TIME! (Trust me. I know.) He wants people to compliment him. He isn't CHEATING on anybody. He just wants a second opinion. He's thinking, "I'm working out and I'm looking good. Right?!" This has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with his wife. It's all to do with him and boosting his self-esteem. He isn't sending women pictures of himself because he wants to cheat on his wife. That's idiotic. And he's not an idiot. He knows pictures of men don't turn women on. It's not a tactic to get them to have sex with him or anything. It's purely to get them to make a remark that boosts his ego. I know instinctively that when a man sends me a picture of himself I have to think of something flattering to say about it. And I know not to use any diminutive terminology. (Boy, I slipped up one time.... Whew! Never say "li'l" anything about a man!) I think men know instinctively that women are not turned on by pictures of men. If they don't know, take it from me and Kristin Shaal who explains it on the Daily Show. This is common knowledge. Frankly women are more turned on by pictures of other women than by pictures of men. Because women are beautiful. The Victoria's Secret catalog is a better thing to show a woman than a close-up of your junk. They photoshop the hell out of those models. They are PERFECT. And they are beautifully lit and posed. A Blackberry photo of your turgid wang bisecting the red mark left by your underwear elastic with a toilet paper holder in the frame are NOT going to make ANYBODY hot for you. I'm actually kind of impressed that Anthony Weiner kept the towel. He shows a level of good taste somewhere above Jersey Shore. He should get a professional to do some really nice photos then publish them in GQ or Maxim or whatever the big magazine is. People would be in agreement about how good he looks and he'd never have to take snaps again. Unless he wants to. And he is fully within his rights to do it.
Anthony Weiner says he's going to treatment? FOR WHAT?! He could use some advice about self portraits, for sure. First of all get a tripod and stop holding the camera yourself. That is REALLY tacky. Mirrors are so singles.net. I can see a therapist telling him EXACTLY what I just put in that last paragraph. Don't feel bad, man, you are perfectly normal. Maybe a little repressed actually. I think he can finish that session in about 10 minutes and spend the rest of the hour with PR specialists brainstorming how to get people to move on to the next thing already. They can use my professional photographer idea. I actually think that's pretty good. Like how I set a line of fire at the top of my hill when the fire is coming up from the bottom so it meets in the middle and goes out without burning my house down.
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Update: Dan Savage has a good ranting podcast (Episode 243) about this topic. I like how he describes the media as trying to make ordinary harmless behavior pathological.
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