When I first heard about the pictures Anthony Weiner sent to some of his twitter followers, I thought it was funny, but not newsworthy. Or at least not as newsworthy as the amount and tone of the media coverage suggested. If the women he corresponded with didn’t consent to receive those kind of pictures, that’s harassment and isn’t ok. But so far, I haven’t seen anything that discussed that aspect of this situation. If his wife didn’t know and didn’t like him sending such pictures to other women, that’s a problem for him and his wife that I couldn’t care less about.

Weiner doesn’t appear to have done anything illegal or even hypocritical. But he resigned in the face of overwhelming pressure from the media, the Republicans, and the other stupid, stupid Democrats. And now one of the most publicly influential progressives, especially with young people (despite his terrible views on bike lanes), is probably never going to hold a major political office again.

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