Mrs. Spitzer Stands By Her Man
Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman,
Giving all your love to just one man.
You’ll have bad times
And he’ll have good times
Doing things that you don’t understand…
–”Stand by your Man” by Tammy Wynette
At this point, it has become something of a cliché in our cultural imagery: A disgraced male public official at a news conference taking his lumps for a newly unearthed sexual indiscretion while his baffled yet supportive wife stands at his elbow, struggling to put a public face on the many emotions roiling beneath a calm exterior. Many viewers to our latest reality-television episode, starring Eliot Spitzer, no doubt shouted back at the T.V. in sympathetic support to Spitzer’s wife, Silda Wall Spitzer, “Leave the bum!”
rs. Spitzer Stands By Her Man