check your sugarcoat at the door

Right, right – so last month, I know. But I just got around to reading this article on David Letterman’s supposed scandalous affairs that I’d bookmarked and I have to share the well summed-up conclusion at the end. While this was taking up headline space, I actually kind of felt bad for the dude. For the multitude of men and women shitting on commitment every single day, why the fuck does David need to address this with the public? Give me a fucking break.

From David Letterman Cheats, Women Shrug by Michelle Dean.

“I know not all men are the same.  I know that women cheat too.  But I also know that powerful women don’t appear, so consistently as powerful men do, to regard the workplace a smorgasboard of potential sexual partners, if only because the risk for powerful women is far greater.  I know that sexual freedom, if we’re going to call it that, still gets exercised largely on the terms written by and for men.  And I think, all in all, women are woefully aware of these facts, simply because they live in a world where men do these things, all the time, and still get to be Governor of New York, President of the United States, and self-anointed King of Late Night TV.  Most of the time, we all shrug: it is what it is.  We’d like to change it, we’d like to be surprised by things like this.  But outrage?  Ugh, at some point your sense of indignation gets dulled beyond repair.  There are so many other things to be righteously angry about.”

I’m reminded of Jon and Kate Gosselin. People want to wig the fuck out like it’s the first time a marriage didn’t work out and a man moved on. Those two are in the public eye constantly, being judged and criticized by lesser parents, stomping their cankles on soapboxes, while raising eight kids. What were the odds they would weather that? And who are we to give two shits?

The only people who could rightfully care about these kind of ’immoral’ affairs taking up headline space are those who have positively never done wrong. In which case, they could raise their righteous chin, think lowly of the lesser people among then, and go about their lives. But these people don’t exist.

It’s about time that the public greedily sucking off the pop-culture media teet stops pretending they’re owed something or have a goddamned leg to stand on.

I’m jus’ sayin’.

-CJ