Testing the Consequences of Male Misbehavior
By KATE TAYLOR, NYT
ON a sweltering morning last week, Sonia Ossorio, the president of the New York City chapter of the National Organization for Women, stood in front of City Hall, flanked by young women holding signs reading, “Spitzer: Women Won’t Forget” and “Can’t Trust a John With Our Dough.”
It had been three days since Eliot Spitzer, the former governor who resigned in 2008 after being identified as a client of a high-priced prostitution ring, announced that he was running for city comptroller. Although Mr. Spitzer’s reputation was seriously damaged by his conduct, he could find solace in the experience of a fellow New York Democrat, Anthony D. Weiner, who is a leading candidate for mayor just two years after resigning from Congress over his exchanges of sexually explicit messages with women he knew only online.
Before a crowd of reporters at City Hall, Ms. Ossorio urged female voters to reject Mr. Spitzer and Mr. Weiner.
They “think they can mistreat women and that women voters are going to dash to the polls to bring them back,” she said. “Let’s not let that happen.”
“The question for voters,” she added, “is, are these men really going to be attuned to the needs of women or are they just going to see us as objects?”
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ON a sweltering morning last week, Sonia Ossorio, the president of the New York City chapter of the National Organization for Women, stood in front of City Hall, flanked by young women holding signs reading, “Spitzer: Women Won’t Forget” and “Can’t Trust a John With Our Dough.”
It had been three days since Eliot Spitzer, the former governor who resigned in 2008 after being identified as a client of a high-priced prostitution ring, announced that he was running for city comptroller. Although Mr. Spitzer’s reputation was seriously damaged by his conduct, he could find solace in the experience of a fellow New York Democrat, Anthony D. Weiner, who is a leading candidate for mayor just two years after resigning from Congress over his exchanges of sexually explicit messages with women he knew only online.
Before a crowd of reporters at City Hall, Ms. Ossorio urged female voters to reject Mr. Spitzer and Mr. Weiner.
They “think they can mistreat women and that women voters are going to dash to the polls to bring them back,” she said. “Let’s not let that happen.”
“The question for voters,” she added, “is, are these men really going to be attuned to the needs of women or are they just going to see us as objects?”
(More here.)
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