It's amazing that we can be contemptuous of other people being bound by the informal social conventions of their groups, but we are somehow immune from that.

Anyways, great article.

You are the first Medium contributor (that I know of) to acknowledge that the Watergate transgressions were trivial compared to what goes on today.

Senator Garry Hart had to drop himself from list to be the Democrat nominee to be President because he was caught on a boat with a young woman. A decade and a half later, the actual President could actually have an affair in the Oval Office--and not face any rebukes from his political party.