Anthony Weiner, Again

[Content Note: Hostility to consent.]

Anthony Weiner admits sexting continued after 2011 resignation from Congress. Huh.
New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, who resigned from Congress in 2011 after a sexting scandal, admitted Tuesday that his shenanigans continued even after he stepped down.

...Weiner issued a statement after a gossip website called The Dirty published an interview with an anonymous woman who claimed she had an online relationship with him between July and November 2012.

...The Dirty claimed that Weiner — who allegedly used the alias Carlos Danger — met the unnamed 22-year-old woman on the social-networking site Formspring in July 2012, sent her sexually explicit photos and had phone sex with her before the relationship "fizzled" that November.

He promised her a job and a condo, said the site, which posted some explicit messages and pictures.
Everything I feel obliged to say about this, I already said on Twitter:

image of tweet reading: 'This is your regularly scheduled reminder that Anthony Weiner did not have at least one woman's consent for dick pix'
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image of tweet reading: 'So ha ha ha Carlos Danger, but this isn't a 'sex scandal.' It never was. Unless you erase Weiner's hostility for consent.'

image of tweet reading: 'Anthony Weiner doesn't hold himself to account for violating consent, but we sure as hell should have.'
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image of tweet reading: 'Cuz, not for nothing, folks, but hostility to consent doesn't mean you messed up. It means you're a predator.'

This fucking guy.

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