Self-Described Feminist Slams Chicks Who Joined in Wannabe-Mayor Wiener's Sextcapades

She writes:

People ask how Mr. Weiner’s wife, the soulfully beautiful and professionally accomplished Huma Abedin, can stay with him. My question is why hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of women apparently derive gratification from exchanging sexual talk and pictures with strangers.  

These women are not victims of men like Mr. Weiner (or of ordinary, obscure sex seekers in the digital world) but full and equal participants. There is no force involved here; people of both sexes are able to block unwanted advances. Women are certainly safer on the Web than they would be going home with strangers they meet in bars.  

Nevertheless, the female thrill seekers are as bewildering in their own way as the sleazy would-be mayor of New York is in his. Why is he called a pervert while Sydney Leathers’s statement that their Internet contact progressed to phone sex twice a week — “a fantasy thing for both of us,” she told one tabloid TV show — is greeted with neutral, if not exactly respectful, attention?...

Why? Surely it's because, unlike the power-hungry Wiener, the aforementioned Ms. Leathers isn't running for mayor.

Update: The good wife? Give us a break

Update: While away on vacation, I came across a copy of Emily Post's Etiquette, published in 1949. Although many of bygone mores within the redoubtable Ms. Post's purview can best be described as quaint and can't help but elicit guffaws all these years later, some of her wisdom--for example, the following chestnut about the dire consequences likely to ensue "WHEN YOUNG WOMEN ARE NOT PARTICULAR" (a category which, in our time, would include Weiner's co-sexters)--is mind-blowingly prescient:

     But what happens when young women are not particular, when their manners are too free and the precepts of the formalities forgotten is not the melodrama's story of wrecked reputation so much as one of lost romance through being no longer able to sense or to exact its fastidious requirements?

     Continuous pursuit of thrill and consequent craving for greater and greater excitement gradually produce the same result as that which a drug produces in an addict...

Considering that was written well before the era of ubiquitous pornography and Weinery sexting, Ms. Post sounds like a freaking prophetess, no?

Update: Anthony Weiner is a "slutbag."

Update: Seriously, What's Up With Anthony Weiner?