I may be very wrong about this, but my sense is that @jerwin is pointing out that some people, especially misogynistic puritans, will blame the wife if a husband isn’t faithful. At it’s core, it’s an especially perverse version of victim blaming. And even where they can’t exonerate the husband, as in Bill Cosby’s case, or don’t want to, as in Bill Clinton’s case, they still latch onto it as an excuse to blame the wife along with the husband. It’s basically the Scarlett Letter with more sexual predators.
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