just some eye candy for yall. i've been catching white collar on TV and falling more in lust with matt bomer. i've caught a few episodes now of his show and while i don't know if it's very accurate for a crime procedural i am very entertained watching it. bomer is just too ridiculously good looking. all those poor women who will be crushed when they find out "christian grey" will never be tying them up in real life..
as for shower guy, since finding out the first random hottie in my last post was ben cohen i've been crushing on him too. i have that pic as my current desktop wallpaper...tiled. very homo but it makes me happy looking at it!
anyway i had a few days off for christmas but now back at work. i was so tired on new year's eve i barely made it to midnight. i managed to make it to the countdown then by 12.15 i was like out the door of the party to get home and crawl into bed for work the next day. definitely not the high-partying new year's i've had in the past.
in unrelated news, i watched this story on roc center with brian williams about an alleged affair JFK had with a teenage white house intern. i thought it was a very interesting piece and i went online to read the text of the interview. i found the comments from other viewers more interesting. on one hand, people were vilifying this lady for telling her story and smearing the good president's name. people more interested in protecting the dead president's reputation than considering what this woman may have gone through to keep this affair a secret for so long.
i just thought in general it was an interesting commentary on what we as americans value as a culture. rather than tear down JFK for distorting this young woman, it was amazing to see people rip this woman up instead for telling "lies" and just "looking for fame or money". if there's one thing i can relate to her, it's the burden of carrying a secret and damned if she be judged by strangers for telling hers, i'm sure she feels incredibly relieved now.
obviously you can see my thoughts on the subject. i believe her. even if not, it's really just a fascinating piece on power and relationships. read the article and some of the comments and tell me what you think.
http://rockcenter.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/03/16305081-white-house-intern-speaks-about-jfk-affair-i-was-sort-of-swept-into-this-web
Just by luck, I happened to catch most of the interview too. I found the woman, Mimi Alford, to be very credible. JFK was a known womanizer and it wasn't Ms. Alford's choice to tell her story publicly - a Kennedy biographer outed her.
ReplyDeleteLike you, I was struck by the Meredith Viera's commentary about the damage Ms. Alford suffered by keeping her secret for so long and by the healing she's experienced now that the truth is out. Those of us who have spent time in the closet can certainly relate.
As for the negative comments, I can't take them seriously. Clearly the woman was played by Kennedy. If she was the daughter of those who defend Kennedy's behavior, I wonder if they'd still see her as the villain.
it's funny that there even has to be a villain in this story. i don't think any less of JFK for this. mimi said so herself she'd do it again. maybe it's just american culture to see everything so black and white and immoral vs moral.
DeleteI agree with both of the comments above although I DO believe we have the right to judge political figures. They ask us to vote for them and put our trust in their ability to make decisions on our behalf. But I don't think that judgement should come from who they chose to love or sleep with but by how they treat the people in their lives. I believe THAT is the truest indication of character and I, for one, want to give power, that kind of ultimate power, only to people of good character.
ReplyDeleteAnd I agree completely about Lewinsky. But remember, absent the blue dress, Clinton would have destroyed her. He all but ruined her life anyway. And if you all remember what happened, she did nothing but try to protect him while at the same time trying to stay out of jail. He would have had none of that regard for her.
And in that way both these stories are strikingly similar.And what's doubly galling is that these men, or their parties, consider themselves champions of human rights and most particularly women's rights. I guess, that is, unless the human/woman becomes a political or personal liability. Then they are as prepared to crush them as any third world despot. That's why and when it becomes our business.
there's always the question of how much personal impairment becomes professional impairment. we have that in medicine, too. would you want a surgeon who had the best reputation in the world in the OR, but got shit faced silly every weekend? i'm not sure what i would pick, maybe i wouldn't want him just for fear of that 'what if' knowing what he does on the weekends. so yes, for politicians their personal lives do become our business but i'm not sure the extent to which we can judge that line. i guess it depends what constitutes for you, personally, makes good character.
Deletei completely agree with your comment that people seem to reach right into their negativity corner when confronted with these interesting conflicts. is it human nature to naturally go on the offense and attack instead of reach for compassion? i'm not sure. the internet has given a powerful positive voice to many but i also fear that it's breeding a dangerous divisive group of people. i can't even watch a youtube video without seeing some nasty comment pop up somewhere.
ReplyDeletei haven't followed much of monica lewinsky other than the cliche things but i'm interested by what you say about her. is anybody's frontal lobes fully developed even by 30? i'm in my 20s too and i still feel like a kid. (btw even though you're only 26 i think i would feel fairly confident saying i know your frontal lobes are developed!)
in the end, i don't really know what to make of all the negative comments regarding this story. everyone is entitled to their opinion but yes, to see that people can't reflect pensively (and politely) on this "revelation" disappoints me. maybe i just let too many things slide past my moral radar that shouldn't. (don't look in my closet..)
I wanted to give you the link to the hottest chapter in Fraternity Memoirs. It's part 4:
ReplyDeletehttp://nifty.guiltygroups.com/nifty/gay/college/fraternity-memoirs/fraternity-memoirs-4
I hesitate to point out just one chapter. The whole series is really entertaining. People still search for new chapters even though it's been nearly 10 years since the last one was published.
If you're intent on reading chapter 4 without carefully reading chapters 1 - 3, I strongly suggest that you take your time with 4. Don't be rushed. Be relaxed and in the mood. Read it slowly because that extenuates the sensuality. Conjure up lots of mental images. And keep in mind that the author claims it's all true.
Let me know what you think after you've read it.