Saturday Massacre: Pelosi, Israel, Wasserman Schultz call for Weiner to resign

[Filuwaúrdjan]

lol

I mean... lol

This story has everything. Ev-ery little detail. It's like a work of post-modernist performance art. Only not sh!te.

What is this, the 17th century?

Actually they were pretty... um... forward... in the 17th century. Most Restoration Drama would bring out the inner Mary Whitehouse in anyone.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I meant the 17th century in the United States.

Is that like the 20th century in the Roman Empire?

In any case, you weren't at all specific. Not that it matters. Letters of early Puritan settlers in North America were actually censored because of their explicit sexual content when they were published in the 19th century.

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The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850, The Crucible in 1953.

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It's possible that there may have been heavy levels of irony in my post (it has been known to happen), but I would argue that, yes, this does seem to have everything that the discerning connoisseur of the contemporary American Sex Scandal would demand, right down to the teary press conference following angry denials. An instant classic, I think.

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Yes, but I don't particularly care about such trivial details.

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I believe that I have made several posts on that very subject right here on this forum. Though I don't like your choice of words; why use an absurd construct like 'forced sex' when a perfectly powerful word already exists; rape.

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As a big story? Absolutely. As a classic sex scandal? Absolutely not.

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What a strange thing to write. How old are you?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

It occurs to be that you don't entirely understand what I might (perhaps) be getting at in my posts. Your loss, I suppose.

Any chance of a response to the rest of that rather long response, or was I just wasting my time?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Yes, and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides came out in 2011, but I assure you I was on a Royal Caribbean cruise a couple of months ago and it was very different from Pirates of the Caribbean.  I think the work is what we call a period piece over here... not a live broadcast of the evening news.

Uh huh. I take it that you aren't aware of the basic truth that any fictional work set in the past is inevitably shaped more by the time in which it is written than by the time in which it is set? Quite consciously so in the case of at least one of the works you mentioned, might I add.

This is before we move into the oh-so-troubling issue of accuracy and then (alas, but inevitably) that of sources and methods.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Any chance of a response to the rest of that rather long response, or was I just wasting my time?

My point is this episode is exceedingly mild compared to the events of the past MONTH.  Given that this is a modern classic as you put it, on a seismic scale where would rank this event when compared to DSK and Arnold?

Ah, yes. Still not getting it. I believe that I used the phrase 'post-modernist performance art', which I think counts as a clue as to what I was getting at. As might the frequent use of the word (?) 'lol'.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

...and more entertaining. Let's not ignore that. Vastly more entertaining.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

A quiz: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-13681528

[Filuwaúrdjan]

That doesn't change the fact he has done nothing that would warrant a resignation. Unless you're a prude.

So, to his tens of thousands of supporters who believed in him and defended in him during the onset of this scandal, only to discover that he lied to them again and again, are prudes?

What else would they be?