Kids are cruel. We all know it. We’ve probably all experienced some form of “mean” behavior in our childhood. And a guy with a name like “Weiner” probably endured endless hours of torture from his peers. Jon Stewart, who went to college with him, implied that it was the source of much amusement at the frat house. So why? Why would this man, with the decidedly phallic name, decide to tweet photos of his own, um, weiner?!

What I’m saying is – any man should know better. But this man? He suffered for his name. He’s been a punch line just for walking in a room, so why even tempt the fates with something this juvenile, and literal? It’s not unprecedented for famous men to be outed by their women. (See Tiger Woods, Jesse James, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Clinton, John Edwards, Mark Sanford, Eliot Spitzer, Brett Favre, Christopher Lee, etc. The list goes on and on… )

This week, the other shoe drops. His wife is pregnant. So, not only could his tweet-capades cost him his career, but he could also lose his marriage and a relationship with his unborn child. All because he wanted to share photos of his bulging underwear. With political leaders on both sides, itching for one-upmanship, urging him to resign, now Obama has weighted in on the debate telling NBC’s Ann Curry, “I would resign” if he were in Weiner’s shoes.  “I think he’s embarrassed himself, he’s acknowledged that, he’s embarrassed his wife and his family. Ultimately there’s going to be a decision for him and his constituents. I can tell you that if it was me, I would resign.”

Please, can anyone explain this? Is this unique to men? Or do women do it too – they’re just more discreet? And am I the only one who most surprised not that he did it, but that his underpants were discribed by the press as “bulging”? I would have taken him more as the cocktail weenie type. All in all, not the worst thing Congressman Weiner could have come out with. 

Perhaps he just grew up believing too much in this ad: