The Day After the Day After

So your Alex Tourk. Everything is fine and honky dorky until your wife, out of the blue, admits to having a fling with not only your boss but one of your best buddies. Even worse, it appears the everyone in the city (except us) knew about it but you didn't. Man, that's one hell of a bad week. Whenever we see these storylines on TV or in the movies, it always ends badly, like in people being shot and killed badly.

So where are we with all of this? Well everybody is still loving the story. It's in this week's Newsweek and Time. Wonkette finally weighed in on it (says a commentor: "Oh this is SF. They love making mountains out of mole hills at every perceived ethical lapse.") and the story even made Perez Hilton. SFGate reports they had their biggest date ever in terms of page views. When the images from SFGate linked to Drudge, the site slowed to a crawl. But with a story this juicy, how could people not be into it?

The first immediate question is what's next for the Gavster? As he tried to get back to his job, the question is just how good of a job can he do? As the Chron says, now that he's been taken down a notch or two, a lot of things he wants to work on-- homelessness, health care, the WiFi deal-- is considerably more of a challenge due to either distractions or a lot of people being even less willing to help him. Already, one fund raiser has been cancelled with the possibility of another being cancelled too. But as even Newsweek says, San Francisco is a fairly forgiving place. Says Wille Brown, a man who knows a few things or too about catting around: "being a hedonist is not a disability in San Francisco.” And God love San Francisco for that. On the other hand, some people are geting huffy over it.

But there's more to it, of course than all of this. You can look at the story is a bunch of chickens coming home to roost and we're talking about a whole lot of chickens and a very tiny roost. Or we could describe it as an onion in which you peel one layer to get many more layers and at the end, all you can do is cry.

First there's the literal chickens, for which we take you back to Matier & Ross' column from yesterday. Gavin's pimping life style was becoming an issue and according to M&R, friends and aides of Gavin knew this shoe was going to drop at some point. Some of them were even glad it happened because it might scare Mr. Party Boy straight.

Then you look at it figuratively. A lot of things have gone wrong for the Gavin lately-- the 49ers thing, crime, etc-- and a feeling that Gavin has been sort of absent from dealing with it. Just look at the 49ers thing-- Gavin was supposedly too busy to call back John York and so York got all huffy and bailed on him. Underlying all this is the perception that Gavin was too busy boozing and whoring to do his job.

And finally, there's the credibility issue, or the perception of credibility. As our beloved ex-editor Eve wondered, are the wheels coming off the Administration? Which might explain all the stupid press tricks they've been pulling lately. If the Mayor is screwing up, wouldn't it make more sense to be antagonistic to the press than be nice to them? And if this is all a downward cycle, are things about to get worse before they get better?

Eh, who knows. We're just kind of dreading having to do this kind of post for the next couple of months or so.

C.W. Nevius' column, also, of Feb 3 reveals more of how the "City" is thinking.

Unforgivable Breach of Man Code

I've just gotta pull clips from this:***

Some of the responses were a little off-the-wall. One woman called in to say she thought Newsom campaign manager Alex Tourk, who quit over the incident, should consider it a compliment that "his wife was worth such flattering attention." But several of the women who called said we were making too much of this indiscretion. It happens, they said.

But not in the Man Code world. The reaction from men was loud and clear.

"The betrayal is the big thing," said Colin Hussey, 44, who was among those who wrote me. "Good God, this is your loyal ally. It is that sense of honor. It's like the samurai or even the mafia."

Contrast that with someone like Erika Von Taube. She was visiting from San Diego, but she spoke for many women who didn't see what the fuss was about. ***

Then, Chris Lehane had to weigh in with this totally "not clued in point":

---snip: "Chris Lehane, a consultant who worked for Clinton and other top Democrats, says the split isn't a total surprise. Although he stresses that gender generalizations are always dangerous, he thinks some trends do emerge.

"The reality is that men tend to be less forgiving and more ideologically conservative," Lehane says, "while women tend to be more sensitive to human foibles. We see in the poll numbers that women are more likely to come back and be supportive than men." ---end snip

The City, at least those writing these columns have gone so into the deep, they can't see the shark.

Can we say... "SEX AND THE CITY" (which is my least favorite of Bushnell's books). In Sex and the City; it's the females who strut and rut in the name of liberation. LeHane does his little "damage control" spin about "gender stereotypes" when in fact it's obvious he's like less than running on full hydrogen.

This "scandal" has nothing to do with females being more "nurturing and forgiving". The wheel has turned. Men in the Bay Area have turned themselves inside out to be "like women" (used to be), and are all but growing nipples for lactation purposes, and here's Gavin acting like... a modern SF Woman... NOT a modern SF wussified guy.

I think CW Nevius is close to target about "male anger at Newsom". He broke the Metrosexual faux manhood code that males the past 40 years have been trying to develop.

Problem is, the women will never really like nor approve however the guy evolves in his hopes of stopping the non-ending emotional battering men get from bitchy females day-in/day-out. In hopes of one day getting "female" approval. It won't work. It'll never come. The guy is always gonna be "wrong" no matter what he does. It's a creedo in the Bay Area: Women have Rights; Men have Responsibilities.

A women in this article thinks Gavin doing another woman, is like, street cred as to the woman's "beauty". Like, how dingbat is that? Like, Majorly.

But! Although I think CW is closer to the truth, I'm not yet sure he gets the full picture. Yet.

I have hope, yes, even to this day, for the oppressed sex called "heterosexual male" in San Francisco.

Gavin has inadvertently sounded the long silenced horn. But, can he or they who also hear it survive and make it to finish line?

It's a big story, not because of traditional morals; but because what happened challenges the Liberal Rulebook of Morals, aka: Political Correctness.

Women have rights; Men have responsibilities.

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