However, if feminists hadn’t spent years criticizing subservience, I doubt that Jenny would have taken a stand.

Jenny Sanford has benefitted tremendously from feminism, but she hasn’t really given anything back to the movement. Her politics are ultra-conservative and she told Vogue magazine that she’s an old-fashioned women. Jenny is a feminist beneficiary, not a feminist icon.

The feminist movement deserves the credit for paving the way for Jenny Sanford to tell her husband to shove it.

I think it’s best not to judge anyone– male or female– too harshly, whether or not we see their actions as wrong. People are human, and that fact will continue to surface, regardless of what institutions and attitudes we impose on human nature.

My biggest issue with Sanford isn’t the fact that he cheated; it’s the fact that, in addition to abandoning his job, he’s not using wisdom to decide when to stop talking.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu0-i0OxhME

The attitude that cheating is wrong is not BS. IT IS WRONG, no matter what you may have in your pants.

Problem is, feminists by and large ONLY advocate it being wrong when MEN do it, and they find endless ways to justify it when women do it, and any attempt to say it’s wrong when women do it is dismissed as “slut shaming”.

Renee is writing about a specific situation in which a man cheated on his wife. That’s not a stereotype.

She propagates the stereotype via her language, however.

The attitude that cheating is wrong is not BS. IT IS WRONG, no matter what you may have in your pants. I don’t see why Renee should have to address women who cheat in an article about a woman’s reaction to a *man* who cheated, just so you can feel like the world is “fair.”

Because she’s using selective language to demonize men who do it, despite the fact that women do it just as much.

Such as the “letting genitalia think for him”, and “discover your husband is NOT a lech”, without using such demonizing language against women.

It’s a common feminist tactic.

“There were no ambitions of running for president one day”

None of us can know why Hillary Clinton stayed with her husband. And even if she did make choices based on career ambition, men do that every day of the week. Our current president’s books were cleverly timed to achieve maximum velocity, for example. Hillary’s choice, even if it was to maximize personal prospects, hurt nobody — we cannot assume that we know she was simply harboring ambition, whereas somehow Bill or Chelsea had no idea. Punishing women for ambition, when even before Bill’s term Hillary had been voted a top-100 attorney nationally and had numerous achievements for women and children (more quantifiable achievements than many presidents), as a contrast to what is meant to be a “feminist hero,” weakens the arguments.

Renee is writing about a specific situation in which a man cheated on his wife. That’s not a stereotype. That’s what happened. It has happened before, and she commented on the actions that people took.

The attitude that cheating is wrong is not BS. IT IS WRONG, no matter what you may have in your pants. I don’t see why Renee should have to address women who cheat in an article about a woman’s reaction to a *man* who cheated, just so you can feel like the world is “fair.”

I love how you perpetuate the stereotype of the ‘unfaithful cheating dog of a husband’, and refuse to offer any negative comments towards women that do the same thing.

I wonder if you’d call a cheating woman someone that lets her genitalia make decisions for her. Somehow I doubt it.

This post manages to be offensive to just about everyone that could read it.

Today, it is often more shocking to find that a husband is not a lecher.

Why not call wives out here?

Much like most trash feminists, you advocate the BS attitude that cheating by men is always wrong, and cheating by women is always justified.

This may be a sign of Jenny’s history with Mark. Regardless of her choice to not feed the media’s frenzy, she does appear to be a feminist hero because it says that she found Mark’s behavior unacceptable. His power and position doesn’t affect where she stands in this situation.

Jenny’s recent statement about forgiveness shows that she has not forgotten about what Mark has done, and that time, purpose and action will determine the future.