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Casey's avatar

Actually I just remembered (sorry for double commenting): before y’all revealed that Beau had been harassing artists, I was having a sort of gut level “ick” reaction to the description of his behavior online. It sort of reminded me of previous pod subject Sam Brinton who was a figure of controversy before he ever committed crimes. I remember thinking, I just don’t believe that someone who has no issue participating in fetish content in a way that can be linked to their real name and job has an appropriate sense of boundaries. This gut instinct is now 2/2 and I’m not sure how I feel about that. Ideally free time should be our own to do with as we please, and hypothetically I think people should be able to participate in fetish communities and sexually explicit content if they’re not doing anything illegal…but also it does seem to signal troubling behavior? Especially if they use their real name and their job is something completely unrelated.

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Midwest Molly's avatar

Just keep that shit to yourself. That’s my golden rule of sex stuff.

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Purrfur's avatar

Brinton also cross dressed in a gross way, probably for attention, at official events. Even international ones I believe

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Cliff Dore's avatar

For me Brinton is second only to Jeffrey Marsh in the creep factor. He did restore my confidence in the DOE’s ability to safely store nuclear waste though ;)

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Melca's avatar

What an embarrassment to this Administration. And yet it was swept under the rug quite neatly. Seriously, what do you expect with someone who presents like that? The bright, shiny red lipstick smeared under his mustache was the one that made me heave.

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Purrfur's avatar

Maybe I just have an unfair aversion to cross dressing or something. But Brinton *looked* so disgusting when doing it. It was like he was trying to see what he could get away with as far as offense.

And yes, I expect relatively high civil servants, especially ones attending conferences, to try and look professional and inoffensive. *Especially* to foreigners.

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Cliff Dore's avatar

I agree- no scarlet dress and sloppy lipstick while in an official capacity…except maybe at IAEA meetings at the UN, where it would seem in keeping with the current majesty of that institution.

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Melca's avatar

And, while we're at it, can we just go ahead and admit that Rachel Levine looks ridiculous?

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Cliff Dore's avatar

The fact that practically the entire Dem elite seems to think we should see someone like Brinton and have no negative thoughts whatsoever- or if we do that we should bide our tongues and scold ourselves- feels a bit like psychological totalitarianism.

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Edward Scizorhands's avatar

I've seen Brinton in campaign ads.

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