Ashley Madison Leak: Josh Duggar, Head of Louisiana GOP, more to come?- Page 3

[Kad]

Posted: 8/20/15 at 3:09pm

"The hack has endangered LGBT folks worldwide. Not just gay men, but gay men on the "down low," who are typically in heterosexual relationships but having sex with men in secret on the side. Millions of people now face being outed as gay or bisexual in countries where homosexual sex is illegal or even punishable by death."
The Ashley Madison hack is outing LGBT people worldwide

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 8/20/15 at 3:44pm

That's frightening aspect of the hack.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 8/20/15 at 6:21pm

Head of Louisiana GOP on the list. He was doing, "opposition research." 

 

Honestly, Josh Duggar should have claimed this. It was opposition research for the Family Research Council.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 8/20/15 at 6:22pm

Same reason right-wing homophobes suck d***.

 

 

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Updated On: 8/20/15 at 06:22 PM

[Auggie27]

Posted: 8/20/15 at 9:29pm

http://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/2015/08/20/22732267/about-josh-duggers-ashley-madison-account

 

Dan Savage has the last word.  For now.

Updated On: 8/20/15 at 09:29 PM

[haterobics]

Posted: 8/20/15 at 10:32pm

Good article, especially like the comment that is linked to directly here:

 

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/20/puritanical-glee-ashley-madison-hack/?comments=1#comment-158953

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 8/21/15 at 9:22am

Interestingly, in the 35 million in the data leak, less than 350,000 were men seeking men. 777,800ish were women seeking women. The rest were straight. 

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 8/21/15 at 5:29pm

Did you catch that viral video of the husband who went in and took pee from the toilet so he could surprise his wife with a positive pregnancy test? He quit his job to make living as a YouTube minister. They are devoutly Christian and want a huge family. They have made videos about keeping your marriage spicy and dating your spouse. They also made one explaining to their five year old daughter why same-sex relationships are wrong. Well, you you probably already guessed it. He's a paid member of Ashley Madison. 

[FishermanBob]

Posted: 8/21/15 at 6:11pm

My career goal has always been to make a living as a YouTube minister. That guy is living the dream.

[disneybroadwayfan22]

Posted: 8/21/15 at 10:06pm

*gasp* You mean a guy, whose punishment/"therapy" was building a house, is still addicted to pornography?! SHOCKED, I SAY!

That poor, sweet wife (I used to watch it). Forced to be stuck with him because of her psycho religion and her cultish in-laws 

[FishermanBob]

Posted: 8/21/15 at 11:47pm

"*gasp* You mean a guy, whose punishment/"therapy" was building a house, is still addicted to pornography?!"

 

I'm just curious. Is someone considered as being 'addicted to porn" if they watch it every waking hour of every day except for the 15-20 minutes or so they check BWW to see what stupid things Roxy and Pinto have said that day? I'm asking for a friend.

[HorseTears]

Posted: 8/22/15 at 12:02am

Kad said: ""The hack has endangered LGBT folks worldwide. Not just gay men, but gay men on the "down low," who are typically in heterosexual relationships but having sex with men in secret on the side. Millions of people now face being outed as gay or bisexual in countries where homosexual sex is illegal or even punishable by death.""

 

SH*T,  that's awful.  I always assumed that Ashley Madison - given its branding and marketing - was focused solely on heterosexual users.  

 

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 8/22/15 at 8:56am

A lengthy but important and well-written post, going viral on Facebook, about the Duggar/Madison situation:

 

 

I know everybody is laughing about this Josh Duggar story. Oh, a DUGGAR on Ashley Madison, it's so rich! I wish more people would talk about Anna. I normally keep things light on Facebook, but let's talk about Anna. Let me tell you: Anna Duggar is in the worst position she could possibly be in right now. Anna Duggar was crippled by her parents by receiving no education, having no work experience (or life experience, for that matter) and then was shackled to this loser because his family was famous in their religious circle. Anna Duggar was taught that her sole purpose in life, the most meaningful thing she could do, was to be chaste and proper, a devout wife, and a mother. Anna Duggar did that! Anna Duggar followed the rules that were imposed on her from the get-go and this is what she got in reward- a husband who she found out, in the span of 6 months, not only molested his own sisters, but was unfaithful to her in the most humiliating way possible. While she was fulfilling her "duty" of providing him with four children and raising them. She lived up to the standard that men set for her of being chaste and Godly and in return, the man who demanded this of her sought women who were the opposite. "Be this," they told her. She was. It wasn't enough.

 

What is Anna Duggar supposed to do? She can't divorce because the religious environment she was brought up would blame her and ostracize her for it. Even if she would risk that, she has no education and no work experience to fall back on, so how does she support her kids? From where could she summon the ability to turn her back on everything she ever held to be sacred and safe? Her beliefs, the very thing she would turn to for comfort in this kind of crisis, are the VERY REASON she is in this predicament in the first place. How can she reconcile this? Her parents have utterly, utterly failed her. Think of this: somewhere, Anna Duggar is sitting in prayer, praying not for the strength to get out and stand on her own, but for the strength to stand by this man she is unfortunately married to. To lower herself so that he may rise up on her back.

 

As a mother of daughters, this makes me ill. Parents, WE MUST DO BETTER BY OUR DAUGHTERS. Boys, men, are born with power. Girls have to command it for themselves. They aren't given it. They assume it and take it. But you have to teach them to do it, that they can do it. We HAVE to teach our daughters that they are not beholden to men like this. That they don't have to marry a man their father deems "acceptable" and then stay married to that man long, long after he proved himself UNACCEPTABLE. Educate them. Empower them. Give them the tools they need to survive, on their own if they must. Josh Duggar should be cowering in fear of Anna Duggar right now. Cowering. He isn't, but he should be. He should be quaking in fear that the house might fall down around them if he's in the same room as she. Please, instill your daughters with the resolve to make a man cower if he must. To say "I don't deserve this, and my children don't deserve this." I wish someone had ever, just once, told Anna she was capable of this. That she knew she is. As for my girls, I'll raise them to think they breathe fire.

Updated On: 8/22/15 at 08:56 AM

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 8/22/15 at 9:29am

Exactly who isn't talking about Anna? She's been talked about in every discussion I have seen. She's completely stuck. Now her husband is totally unemployable and she has four kids. She won't leave him. She'll pull a Tammy Wynette and stick with him. How many groceries would that $1000 he spent on Ashley Madison buy? She probably doesn't even have the ability, either through common sense or based on what she is allowed to do, to go through credit card records and see what he spent where. He's friends with strippers on his private Facebook page. My guess is that he has been to more than one champagne room.

SH*T,  that's awful.  I always assumed that Ashley Madison - given its branding and marketing - was focused solely on heterosexual users. 

The breakdown of the accounts was 97% heterosexual, 2% women for women and 1% men for men.

Updated On: 8/22/15 at 09:29 AM

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 8/22/15 at 1:04pm

That screed about Anna Duggar is crazy people talk. 

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 8/22/15 at 1:48pm

http://gawker.com/viral-miscarriage-husband-s-ashley-madison-apology-thi-1725793205

"The account was opened out of pure fleshly desires and just sinful curiosity"  

Fleshly

(Did the latest interface update change the ability to give links a title instead of just pasting the link?  I truly don't understand how this site is programmed)

[Auggie27]

Posted: 8/22/15 at 3:16pm

"What is Anna Duggar supposed to do?"

 

That's my problem because?

 

What an insane construct, re-framing this debacle as a cautionary feminist tale in which the culture at large should rally around this woman as a victim. Had her husband not been caught, she'd still be carrying the water for this cult.  She is under-educated, spoiled rotten by her arrogant, insular world; if she's finding herself woefully ill-equipped for this particular sh--t-just-got-real moment, she should not waste a minute schooling herself in the myriad issues she believed her religious cant spared her knowledge/ experience of. She has been a willing, mealymouthed participant in a repressive patriarchy, smugly milking its moralizing profile for her own profit.  She is part of the problem, not collateral damage.  Step up the mic and denounce the people you've eagerly propped up, then maybe I'll listen.  Maybe. 

Updated On: 8/22/15 at 03:16 PM

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 8/22/15 at 3:18pm

Not to mention he was raised in this kind of environment, too.  If that absolves her, it should absolve him.

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 8/22/15 at 4:18pm

 Not just gay men, but gay men on the "down low," who are typically in heterosexual relationships but having sex with men in secret on the side. Millions of people now face being outed as gay or bisexual in countries where homosexual sex is illegal or even punishable by death.?

I honestly can't find sympathy for those who are ****ing men on the DL. I'm sorry, I can't. You have a woman trapped in a marriage while lying to her so you can **** men without it ruining your image or have any of the other negative aspects. They didn't sign up to be part of your lie, you want to sneak around do it on your own, don't rope someone innocent into it.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 8/23/15 at 12:42am

Hear, hear, Auggie. 

 

There, there Headbanned. 

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 8/23/15 at 8:37am

She has been a willing, mealymouthed participant in a repressive patriarchy, smugly milking its moralizing profile for her own profit.

 

How can you say this as a fact??? So, you've been able to obtain confirmation that it wasn't in fact a forced marriage arranged by her own sick family, as has been previously reported? 

[Hamilton22]

Posted: 8/23/15 at 9:20am

What an insane construct, re-framing this debacle as a cautionary feminist tale in which the culture at large should rally around this woman as a victim. Had her husband not been caught, she'd still be carrying the water for this cult.  She is under-educated, spoiled rotten by her arrogant, insular world; if she's finding herself woefully ill-equipped for this particular sh--t-just-got-real moment, she should not waste a minute schooling herself in the myriad issues she believed her religious cant spared her knowledge/ experience of. She has been a willing, mealymouthed participant in a repressive patriarchy, smugly milking its moralizing profile for her own profit.  She is part of the problem, not collateral damage.  Step up the mic and denounce the people you've eagerly propped up, then maybe I'll listen.  Maybe. 

 

Yes. All of this. Can't say I feel too bad for her. Her kids on the other hand...

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 8/23/15 at 4:11pm

http://gawker.com/viral-miscarriage-vlogger-sam-rader-kicked-out-of-confe-1725984562

[tazber]

Posted: 8/23/15 at 4:30pm

I can't believe people think this guy's video is real.

 

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 8/23/15 at 4:38pm

He wanted internet fame at any cost and now he has it. It's an O'Henry story!