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In reply to the discussion: Monica Lewinsky is trending on Twitter. She is a brave young woman. [View all]Dems to Win
(2,161 posts)Monica told the FBI that she raised her shirt to show Bill the top of her thong as her way of telling him she wanted to play. It's in the Starr report, as are details of every sexual encounter they ever had -- each and every sex act. It was obscene the level of detail they released to the public. You can find it on google.
I agree with you that Bill is at fault, given his vast power, and he had a responsibility to say no. Any corporate exec that had an affair with an intern would be fired, no matter who had made the first move. I felt that way at the time, and wished Bill would just resign and let Al Gore take over, but I was pretty alone in that. Democrats convinced me, reluctantly, that his actions and lies did not rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors so he shouldn't be impeached, but that was it.
Young people, especially young women, have been raised knowing about sexual harassment and with modern workplace expectations. Bill's actions can look worse in hindsight than they were treated at the time.
Even prominent feminists like Gloria Steinem wrote articles defending Bill and demeaning Monica. I was pretty disgusted with organized feminism. I guess I've always been a hard-ass militant feminist.
I'm simply astonished that the Democratic and feminist Establishments are eager to return Bill to the WH as First Gentleman. I don't want it to happen, at all, and it has always seemed to me that it would be a tough sell to young people.
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