Men Behaving Badly Again
As U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner joins the pantheon of powerful public figures making fools of themselves, we have to ask an obvious but discomfitting question: Why are they all men? Why does Time magazine’s list of the Top 10 Political Sex Scandals have nary a woman on it?
There are plenty of foolish women in public life (see: Palin, Sarah), but none seem to have the toxic mix of hubris, hormones and recklessness that propells such dumb sexualized behavior. Will that change when, or if, women obtain their rightful place as half of the nation’s leaders? Is this driven by gender, or enabled by the circumstances of power? Is this where equality ends, or where it begins?
A message from our Publisher & CEO Rachel Fishman Feddersen
I hope you appreciated this article. Before you go, I’d like to ask you to please support the Forward’s award-winning, nonprofit journalism so that we can be prepared for whatever news the rest of 2025 brings.
At a time when other newsrooms are closing or cutting back, the Forward has removed its paywall and invested additional resources to report on the ground from Israel and around the U.S. on the impact of the war, rising antisemitism and polarized discourse.
Readers like you make it all possible. We’ve started our Passover Membership Drive, and we need 1,800 readers like you to step up to support the Forward by April 21. Members of the Forward board are even matching the first 1,000 gifts, up to $70,000.
This is a great time to support independent Jewish journalism, because every dollar goes twice as far.
— Rachel Fishman Feddersen, Publisher and CEO
