No doubt that Peter Cook was a sleezy man but for Christie Brinkley to air all of that out in public so that she could "win" is atrocious. She picked the loser.
KIDS: "Thanks MOM!"
I thought this is ironic, given that the previous article in the forum queue was about the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” in San Francisco.
How to shame people in a shameless culture?
What she did was very smart....it certainly settled her case faster! Frog blames her for picking the scum.....but you never know someone until you live with them....are you saying they should of lived together first?
And Christie Brinkley is on what, divorce number FOUR? So she must be a real box of chocolates at home too. The follow-up article to this one should encourage married men to publicly air the runaway self-centered attitude problems of their wonderful wives too.
This assumes of course that 1)people are aware of what "shame" is, 2) people are capable of feeling it and 3)that shame is a negative attribute and doesn't result in a perverse sort of adulation by the culture.
I'm not certain any of those assumptions is correct.
This is what Norman Sheresky, Cook’s attorney, implied when he told the court, “For goodness sake: She’s on her fourth husband.” Well, yes, fourth husband — it is a bit harder to find a good man these days.
It is a dangerous road to revel in such scandal.
Years ago, there was a “People’s Court”-style TV show called “Divorce Court”. But unlike the ordered demeanor expected in other courts, this show highlighted the endless, cynical barrage of slanders found in divorce hearings.
It was appalling, more so because it reflected the reality of such shameful displays in real courts. Lawyers, as court officers, openly encouraged and coached spousal testimony that was far beyond the pale of even perjury. And unlike in legitimate courts, the judge was indifferent at best to the unsubstantiated lies, hate, and nonsensical attacks before him.
Mutual accusations of adultery, child abuse and molestation, drug and alcohol abuse, religious cultism, battery and threat of or even attempt of murder, theft and fraud, reckless endangerment, rape, and anything else that came to mind were de rigueur. The judge just ignored these vile accusations.
This is neither order nor justice, and any judge should be ashamed to tolerate such behavior. And if there was reasonable suspicion that the criminal elements had basis in fact, the judge should have suspended the hearing and summoned the police.
It’s not like women NEVER lie!
Christie Brinkley made her name and her fortune by offering herself to the public as a piece of tasty eye candy. Then, after three failed marriages, she married a piece of male eye candy and expected him to be uninterested in other pieces of female eye candy who were younger than she now is. On what utopian planet did she think she lived?
Personally I don’t understand why men and women put themselves and those they once claimed to love through such a hassle. I’ve heard the most hateful things come out when a relationship ends. I know a guy who told his wife in front of the kids that he never wanted the kids to begin with. The two little girls were devastated. They ended up spending a lot of time at our place before the divorce was final and they moved with their mother back closer to relatives.
This was a case where our friend was much better off without the guy in question. Evidently he was embarrassed with her and thought the kids and her were holding him back. He hit on his wife’s friends and cheated on her repeatedly. The good thing is that our friend found someone who treats her like a queen. A country boy coal miner who is friendly and they are happy. The man who claimed the kids were such a burden hooked up with a lady who has a set of her own.
I always find it interesting how people fall back into the same patterns. Sometimes the things that we think will set us free only leave us lonely and once we’ve had our fill of our entertainments we find ourselves longing for what we had. It is horrible that people treat each the way they do.
The me first relationships have only hurt the people involved and of course the children...
There are cases that are just horrible though... A friend of mine in the Philippines who is a young mother with 3 children. Her husband left and she works as an accountant. She hooked up with an American guy who she met online. Tom at first seemed to be her white knight but soon revealed that he was just a player. He decided he wanted to stay in the Philippines but within a few weeks he had started cheating with a young babysitter who lived across the street. He even blamed my friend, said she wasn’t giving his lazy ass enough attention and that he was bored. She is lucky she didn’t have any pets. Anyway when she found out she tried to kick him out but he faked a diabetes seizure.
The last straw was when he brought the babysitter into her bed and she had to sleep on the floor beside the bed while they had sex. She called me crying but after talking she worked out a plan of action and eventually kicked him out...
The sad thing is that she felt responsible for him. He was such a weasel he had her feeling guilty. I felt so badly for her but the sad truth men and women treat each other far worse everyday, kids be damned, it is their “sexual appetites and emotional needs” that take priority.
I don’t know. Should men publically shame their sleazy, cheating wives?
What’s his name, Coumo, took a lot of heat for exposing his wife’s adultery. Of course, she was a Kennedy.
There are always women who contort themselves into unenviable positions in order to buy into a line from a sleazy man. Whether single, dating, or married, some women are always open to this, even if they know that the man is sleazy. Reason goes out the window.
Outing sleazy guys doesn’t make a lot of women more wary. Indeed, in many cases it acts as a magnet. Look at all the women who actively seek a pen pal in prison.
Couple of points:
-Does the author think sleazy women should be outed as well, or is it OK for them to be adulterous sluts?
-If you want to keep other women away from him, claim he’s a wonderful guy who would never cheat, look at pr0n, get in trouble with the law, etc. If you want women to flock to him, expose him as a douchebag. I can guarantee you this guy will now get more ass than anybody thought humanly possible.
Sleazy WOmen should be publicly shamed also. What’s good for one sleaze is good for another. Maybe we should bring back public stocks, “A” on the forehead for adultery, shunning, and banishment, etc too.
Women do so all the time, but half the time they're LYING!