Let he who is without sin.....

[kpete]

Anthony Weiner Is a Modern Human Being
by Alec Baldwin
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This is sex for many people now. No time for Mateus and cheap spaghetti. No time for slowly moving toward one another with a combination of hope and caution, lust and integrity. One can push a button and get something beyond porn. Porn is essentially two dimensional. One sees and hears. Internet sexting can be perceived as three dimensional by adding the component of "feel", regardless of how cheap and unearned those feelings are. That person on the screen is doing whatever they're doing... just for you.

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Weiner is the modern, high functioning man. The fact that he is married is just one, albeit a huge, factor. I know many people who divorce over such issues of online betrayal. Appointment sex with your spouse doesn't always arrive when you need it most. A modern cell phone, loaded with contacts of willing fellow players, has a table with a red checkered table cloth ready for you at virtually any time.

We tell ourselves that these devices help us communicate more effectively. What they actually do is allow us to bypass the person lying right next to us, across the room from us or at an airport heading home to us, in order to meet our immediate, even inconvenient, needs. To bypass their moods, their current view of us and their own desires, or lack thereof.

Weiner is a modern human being. So he ensnared himself in things that modern humans do. When I first heard about his problems, I snickered and made jokes, too. Now, I'm sad for him, his family, his district and his colleagues.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alec-baldwin/anthony-weiner-twitter-_b_873932.html

[Skittles]

1. a modern, high-functioning stupid man

[LaurenG]

2. Yep. Horn dog stupid. Thinking with the little head stupid.

:hi:

[brooklynite]

3. So he's "modern"...too bad he lied about it.

I'm older than Weiner, and I make strong use of Social Media...and I think about every item I post.