The XX Factor: Slate women blog about politics, etc...

Re: Multiple Choice

Over at Tapped, Dana Goldstein sides with you, Hanna, writing, “When politicians are caught cheating, I'd wish they'd leave their wives in the green room while they address the press. You're in the dog house, and it should look that way.” At best, Option A means you were lied to along with the rest of the country; at worst, it means you knew about it and sucked it up for the sake of his career.

I keep going over and over the thought experiment in which a cuckolded man is forced to stand there and look aggrieved yet supportive while his bride cops to an affair. How would that play? Has it happened and I’ve repressed it? Or do women indulge themselves and their dark fantasies by watching Greys Anatomy?