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I care very much about ancient history, and no, I’m not clutching my pearls, but I do have two college-aged children and would like them to see that this stuff really doesn’t go away. I find that a very valuable lesson. It may not be a big deal on its own, but there is no good reason to take such pictures at all. So don’t take them. Do what you want to do, but why on earth leave a record?</p>
<p>It’s too bad that these days everyone has a cell phone with camera, or a camera the size of a credit card. A college man dressing up in women’s underwear - as many a frat boy has done throughout the ages - is risking it coming back to haunt him when he is a middle-aged famous person. Whoever provided that old photo to the press should be ashamed of himself.</p>
<p>The 25-yo photos don’t bother me, but the current behavior does. I’m glad to learn that he has resigned.</p>
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<p>Now see Donna, you have that all wrong. Him (46) texting a 17 year old high school student, that’s not faux horror, that’s actually real horror :eek:, really. How he dresses I don’t care, but messing with the under-aged, a girl’s gotta draw the line somewhere.</p>
<p>And I’m pretty sure the 8th grade crowd would get that too.</p>
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Exactly! And it’s so unnecessary. What benefit did he derive from taking those pictures 25 years ago? It may have been a great party. Fine. But it should have lived happily in his memory, not in public view.</p>
<p>AW didn’t take the 25-yo photos, someone else at the party did. This person went to the trouble of digging them out and contacting the press.</p>
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He clearly posed. There’s just no reason for that. Yes it sucks that someone dug out that picture, but they couldn’t have done so if it hadn’t ever been taken. Common sense.</p>
<p>I picked late in the day Friday because that’s when people release bad news if they don’t want a lot of coverage. Silly me. He wants all the attention he can get while he can get it so, of course, he’s not resigning then …</p>
<p>All of us at the frat parties throughout the country posed in our Halloween cross-dressing costumes. What harmless fun we had!</p>
<p>I haven’t seen the college photos so cannot comment on them. However, when older s was at the Duke tip program they had “wear a skirt wednesday” for the guys. They went all out withtops and bottoms borrowed from the girls, and make up. Who thinks this will haunt them + 20 or more yrs later?</p>
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Some gentlemen at my d’s school did the same thing as a fundraiser. It wasn’t lingerie, though. It’s really only a problem in connection with the truly icky things he was doing. With regard to an upstanding citizen who didn’t send graphic photos of his *****, the college pranks are harmless fun. But I’m still going to remind my kids to consider what these things might look like when they are adults.</p>
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<p>I think I’ve made it very clear that I agree with you. His behavior – particularly in sending unsolicited photos of himself and in “fishing” for a sexual response from a 17-year old – was unconscionable, and I’m glad he’s apparently resigning.</p>
<p>My comment about faux horror and pearl-clutching was directed solely at a few of the more overwrought comments about the 25-year old drag photos. Which have nothing to do with any of this. Whoever dug them up and gave them to the National Inquirer really should be ashamed of themselves.</p>
<p>Also, I don’t think anyone can really fault AW for allowing such photos to be snapped in the first place back in the 1980’s. What, people think he should have predicted the Internet and the rise of social media and the ubiquity of cell phone cameras, and/or should have known he was going to hold public office someday?</p>
<p>My son dressed in drag on Halloween last October, wearing borrowed clothing, and I’ve seen the photos – he was sort of a scary zombie witch, with blood dripping from his mouth, and was rather proud that when he encountered a group of small children who happened to be on the campus, they ran away screaming. A very impressive makeup job.</p>
<p>But, then again, I don’t see him running for office anytime soon!</p>
<p>The problem is that they may not care what things look like when they’re adults. I can remember being in HS and being told that if I did not avoid the sun I would have wrinkles by the time I was 30. I can clearly remember thinking that 30 was so old that life would be over anyway, and what did I care?</p>
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Totally true. But I could at least comfort myself that I warned them!</p>
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Of course not. But since there was no benefit to taking those pictures, they should not have been taken. I guess I don’t have enough of a wild side to see why anyone would WANT to take pictures like that.</p>
<p>As Daddy would say “AW has s**t and stepped in it”. </p>
<p>His college frat pictures are not the problem.</p>
<p>I feel very sorry for Weiner’s staff. They are suddenly out of work through no fault of their own. I hope that the party leaders will make an effort to find places for at least some of them.</p>
<p>You are so right NYMomof2. In this economy, to be so suddenly unemployed is a terrible thing. I really hope that their needs are considered carefully.</p>
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<p>There’s no point to taking any fun pictures at a party, though - other than fun. I’m with DonnaL. Couldn’t care less about clearly-harmless, fun-guy-goofing-off photos. They are meaningless.</p>
<p>This story had dragged on a lot longer than I’m sure AW & others anticipated. It really is hard to tell which of these kind of stories will stick. The use of Twitter with pics made it easier, I suppose. I have enjoyed the middle school humor as much as most people from this I’m a little ashamed to admit. Gotta say that Stewart, Colbert, O’Brien have not disappointed.</p>
<p>As far as his college pictures, those alone are nothing. But everything at this point is just fuel - with or without merit.</p>
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True. But I have warned my kids about pictures showing them drinking or doing other inappropriate things and I’m going to show these to them, as well. You can have fun and still use some common sense. I wouldn’t want my girls taking pictures of themselves in underwear, either.</p>