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If a woman had done what Scott Brown did...

Would a woman who posed nude win a senate seat?


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It's a perfect example of a double standard.
 
It's a perfect example of a double standard.
Damn right, and we're going to keep it that way, because women are special.
 
Some of you are basing your opinion that the masses wouldn't care if she showed some kind of remorse. Why should she have to be remorseful or consider it a 'mistake of youth' in order for it to be acceptable?
 
Some of you are basing your opinion that the masses wouldn't care if she showed some kind of remorse. Why should she have to be remorseful or consider it a 'mistake of youth' in order for it to be acceptable?
What in the world are you talking about?
 
Some of you are basing your opinion that the masses wouldn't care if she showed some kind of remorse. Why should she have to be remorseful or consider it a 'mistake of youth' in order for it to be acceptable?

Because for some, such actions are bad, and thus one must be sorry for them to be acceptable.
 
Is that why it was acceptable for Brown? He said he did a 'bad thing'?

I did not say it was, or was not.

I said that, for some persons, such actions are unacceptable.

Not everyone.

It is possible, however, that more people find it unacceptable for females to do so.
 
It is possible, however, that more people find it unacceptable for females to do so.

That's the whole premise of the thread. I don't just think it's possible, I think it's an outright reality that if a woman had posed nude she would not have been given a free pass the way Brown was.
 
That's the whole premise of the thread. I don't just think it's possible, I think it's an outright reality that if a woman had posed nude she would not have been given a free pass the way Brown was.

Well, I don't know that much about Brown or his qualifications, but I like to think I would overlook such petty distractions as if a candidate did or did not pose nude at some point. Or any number of other things.

Then again, it would depend on how a candidate responded to such accusations. If they were like "Yeah, I did that, and it was quite fun, I love showing off my bod..." Well, I might take issue. Such a response shows traits which I might dislike in a person representing me. If an explanation were given that I could accept, however, I don't see the issue.
 
That's the whole premise of the thread. I don't just think it's possible, I think it's an outright reality that if a woman had posed nude she would not have been given a free pass the way Brown was.

To the extent that's true, it by and large turns on the reaction of women to it.
 
Who has experience executing policy?

Considering Al Franken is a Senator, I doubt his experience executing policy matters.

Executing policy is less important, as I see it, than understanding the policy they're executing. Otherwise you have the advisors, the Dick Cheneys and the like, running the show.
 
Brown is an experienced statesman, a junior senator, who is in a unique position right now to lead Harry Reid around the Senate chamber by his nose.

What makes him an experienced statesman?
 
What makes him an experienced statesman?

He won an election, duh.

When Scott Brown spent 10 years in the Massachusetts State House and State Senate, that made him an experienced statesman. In contrast, when Obama spent 7 years in the IL State Senate and 4 years as a US Senator, that simply made him an unqualified rookie.
 
He won an election, duh.

When Scott Brown spent 10 years in the Massachusetts State House and State Senate, that made him an experienced statesman. In contrast, when Obama spent 7 years in the IL State Senate and 4 years as a US Senator, that simply made him an unqualified rookie.

Ah, hypocrisy. Got ya.
 
Aside from the Arab sections of the middle east, the entire world is less uptight about sex than us.

This is not actually true.

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Gere kiss sparks India protests


We're pretty much the middle ground. We're not like France and Australia, where it's pretty much OK to go walking around naked, but we're also not like most of the developing world, where public kissing shocks people as much as Janet Jackson's nipple.
 
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