Scott Brown: childhood victim of sexual abuse

[Marokai Backbeat]

TMI.

Seriously?  That's extremely rude. Come across as a douchebag much?  He was sexually abused as a child and now he is a United States senator from Massachusetts.  How about we act like adults in this situation and put partisan politics aside.  Wow.

Oh please, be holier than thou elsewhere. I'm conflicted on how exactly I feel about this public admission myself.

On one hand, I agree that it's a very serious and sad thing, on the other hand, we're gearing up toward 2012 campaigns and I think people actually trying to use this as why he just can't have it in his heart to appreciate gay rights is completely effing stupid. I'm sorry, he's a grown man, incredibly intelligent, and a Senator. It's a terrible and sad thing, but it's no excuse at all, IMO.

[Marokai Backbeat]

Frankly, he's the one who put it out there. I understand sexual abuse better than most, certainly most than here I imagine, and even I find the whole deal iffy.

[Marokai Backbeat]

Amount of political gain Scott Brown gets from mentioning past sexual abuse: near 0
Amount of people here willing to declare a sitting U.S. Senator a sociopath based on their "gut feeling" and nothing more: lots

Oh please, as if it wouldn't get a ton of sympathy or almost surely get someone somewhere to attack him over it in some way getting a bunch of "how dare you"-esque shaming in his defense.

I'm not prepared to sit here and call him a sociopath and accuse him of sitting around coming up with the sickest possible ways to get support or sympathy, but politicians come up with all kinds of things to that effect, such as coming up with fictional military records or exaggerating details. (Also, Brown has been completely untrustworthy to people he's spoken to in the Senate in the past and has made baffling lies about his opposition, such as his long-running nonsense about Rachel Maddow running against him, for some reason.)

The only thing that actually does bug me about this whole issue are the amount of people essentially responding with "aw, I understand so much more about him now, the delicate little thing" in regards to his positions on gay rights contrasting with the state he represents. It's silly and it grates on me. The man shouldn't be treated any better or any worse just because of it.