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As a feminist, I think there's another side here, which is that female politicians deserve more privacy in this day and age than do male politicians. That might seem an odd sort of protectionism, but we live in such a society that promiscuity is essentially a character assassination for a woman and an achievement for a man. Until we live in a society where either gender can have sex when and with whomever they desire in a responsible manner with equal disdain or lauding then I think it's more offensive to cast a female politician in a negative sexual light than a man.
And its really upsetting that I'm bearing the cognitive dissonance of loathing the woman and everything she stands for and simultaneously saying it is wrong to reveal this sort of information, even if it would point towards hypocrisy.
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