CNN sexist headline really annoys me here: "Cheating wife gets

millions." So what? Her husband was worth millions. You never see 'cheating husband' in the headlines. This story could have had other bylines, if you read it.

Guess it is unusual, as usually when a cheating husband leaves behind wife and kids, the single father's living standard almost always goes UP after a divorce where Mom has custody, but the Mother and children's standard of living sinks often below poverty level. I guess that is 'normal', and so not a headline. But for a WOMAN to get millions (27% of the estate)...that's just terrible.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/25/divorce.settlement.ap/index.html

BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut (AP) -- A judge has awarded the former wife of a multimillionaire businessman a divorce settlement worth more than $40 million even though she admitted having affairs with her rock-climbing guide and a man she met on a flight to China.

In addition to a $24 million payment, Susan Sosin will keep the couple's $3.6 million Manhattan apartment, $2 million Utah ski house and $800,000 home in Wallkill, New York. But she has to vacate the couple's two mansions in Connecticut and three desert properties in Arizona.

In the divorce granted Wednesday, she also gets to keep $6 million in her brokerage accounts, eight cars and $2.9 million in jewelry, including a ruby piece her husband had bought for her but hadn't given to her prior to their divorce

And she was a cheating wife.

it is true you will never see a story about a "cheating husband"...

That Charlie Sheen guy just recently had headlines about him cheating on his pregnant wife. If exists and methinks you may lack some perspective.

I thought he got his act together. What an idiot! He had a beautiful wife and expecting a baby. Man, talk about poor decision making. I read that article about the wife too. She was extremely unfaithful. She shouldn't have gotten as much as she got, despite the sensationalized headline. She is what she is.

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=%22cheating+husband%22&btnG=Search+News

On Edit: Checking "cheating husband" on Google News yields 35 stories. "Cheating wife" yields only 8.

WorldNetDaily
The Philadelphia Mercury(?)
London Times
Blogcritics.org
Express Newsline (India)
KLTV (Houston)
FlyByNight brand Wire Services...
Movie reviews...
Quotes...

Hmm. Not a CNN (or any national outlet) in sight.

Q.E.D.

I'm sure you don't mean to, but it's looking as if you're making this up as you go along.

but the combined readership of those sources is probably less than half of what one CNN article gets. I guess "cheating" can be considered factual, but it has a lot of baggage (or interest, depending on your POV). Don't think it belongs in a CNN headline for either sex.

Philandering brings out the most interesting sides in people...both those doing it and those passing judgement on those who do.

The term "cheating" is so misleading as this is always sex and never focuses on other facets of a relationship.

There's a cottage industry in "cheating huband" syndrome...listen to a Nancy Grace, or the fascination the corporate media had in any celeb who is caught with his wicket in the wrong place.

and put there to outrage males and garner more attention than a stricly factual headline "Divorce settlement reached" would have done.

wrote the article.

night and my head is just fuzz

"The couple met in 1978 when Howard Sosin was an assistant professor at Columbia University. At the time, she was married to another man and working in retail."

It shouldn't have come as such a surprise to the husband that she would cheat on him, since he was apparently more than happy to help her cheat on the first husband.

and from humble beginnings no less....(my daily reminder to stay single)

lol...it really is 'cheaper to keep her' (or make sure she has an 'untimely' accident the next time she goes rock climbing)

creates a job opening for mistress is probably often true.

it is apparently accurate.

Prove to me you never see "cheating husband" in the media. Other than celebrity cases, I rarely see divorce headlines at all. In celebrity cases, I don't recall the slightest media hesitation in labeling an adulterous male as such. Quite the contrary. They seek out salacious details to include with which to titillate their audience.

Furthermore, I don't know a single divorced man whose standard of living went UP after a divorce. Divorce hurts EVERYONE involved. From child custody to determination of settlements, the law, practice and outcome of divorce in this country systematically penalizes the man more than the woman. The *enforcement*, not determination, of divorce settlements is typically what harms women and children.

What is unusual in this case is that adultery apparently is no longer a defining criterion in the settlement. There was a time when admitting to adultery, or having it proven, made you the "villain." It was a factor in determining the settlement. Often the adulterous partner lost everything.

I think you are being grossly oversensitive and either uninformed or disingenuous.

j/k---but she is scandalous with a capital "S"

did

Why do they care if she cheated? Seems the whack-job fundimental cases are instructing the MSM on how to spin stories to elicit 'righteous indignation' amongst the kool-aid drinkers (many of whom take advantage of the no-fault divorce laws on the books right now)--they won't be happy until she has to wear a scarlet A on her chest. Better she than the rest of us...