She’s in the news, presenting herself as such - and claiming she wants to “end cyberbullying”.
But is she really a victim of this? Did The Drudge Report’s reporting of this really amount to bullying? I’m inclined to believe that (with Bill Clinton’s help) she made herself a public figure, and a legitimate subject of the stories that emerged.
Your thoughts?
Can one can say she was a homewrecker and got what she deserved?
Well, one could say (and I did say) that both she and Clinton were guilty of First Degree Stupidity, which is not an impeachable offense. At the very least, ISTM that Lewinsky is not the most credible spokesperson for this kind of crusade.
Now that I’m old enough to be supervising interns, all I can think is that she was a baby when this all happened, and it sucks to have your entire life defined by an affair you had that young. I say good for her for not hiding anymore. People grow, people learn, and she’s been through more than enough. She has a right to have a life.
She needs to crawl back under the rock she’s been under for the last 10 years, shut her blow-job hole and quietly go the fuck away. She has nothing to add to, well, anything.
I agree with you. Yes, she was asking for trouble, but she didn’t deserve what she got. The punishment far outweighed the crime. Having once been young, in love and very foolish myself, I’ve always felt sorry for her.
I also say good for her, but I can’t help wondering if a lower-key reemergence might have been a better approach.
She was barely an adult when all that happened, and I can’t imagine having an indiscretion like that defining her persona, world-wide. She went through hell, and has the right to get on with her life. If she wants to be the spokesperson for anti-cyber-bullying, she could be very constructive.
Whose home did she wreck?
Given the current state of online hostility, I’m sure she gets some truly jawdropping nastygrams. Check out Post #5, for example. Public figure or no, I have no problem believing she gets more than her fair share of abuse.
I rather suspect this is less “standing up to stop an awful trend in human behavior” and more “give me publicity and positive press, that my name might be more than a sad joke”, but it’s not like those are mutually exclusive. It’s something bad that should be stopped, and if it’s a question whether she suffered from the full nastiness of its effects or just a watered-down version, well, that doesn’t really matter, now does it?
Well, yeah, kinda. People often judge the worthiness of a cause by the worthiness of a spokesperson for that cause. And, if I understand correctly from this thread, she is staking her worthiness as a spokesperson on her claims that she was cyberbullied.
Becoming famous for something bad and cyberbullying are not the same thing, even if they do often come together. Rebecca Black, for example, was not cyberbullied when everyone reported that her song “Friday” sucked. She was not cyberbullied when people said mean things about her in various places. She was cyberbullied when people individually harassed her.
If she hasn’t experienced that, she needs to not claim she has, as it makes cyberbullying not seem as serious as it is. It’s kinda like if you led a seminar on workplace injuries because you stubbed you toe once at work.
What makes you think Monica Lewinsky hasn’t been cyberbullied or, as you put it, “individually harassed”? It would have been via email or Instant Messenger, perhaps, instead of Twitter and Facebook, but the internet wasn’t any kinder fifteen years ago than it is today. For that matter, there’s no reason to think it all stopped two administrations ago.
She may have been cyberbullied, but not by Drudge. I feel for her, she was young and in love, but that was a huge story. Gives nobody the right to denegrate her, but seems odd to call reporting a presidential scandal bullying.
This is nothing more than an attempt to reinvent one’s self. Problem is that she’s got the back story all wrong. No one remembers her as being bullied. She wasn’t the victim of the media or cyber attackers. She was the victim of her own naiveté and immaturity. That’s what she should be promoting that young women should be more careful to the whims they fall under.
She has been, successively
[ul][li]An idiot[/li][li]An adulteress[/li][li]A punch line, and[/li][li]An anti-obesity pitchman[/ul]And now she wants to be known as a victim. [/li]
The classic American career path if ever I heard it.
For heaven’s sake shut your blowhole and go away - your fifteen minutes was up decades ago.
Regards,
Shodan
Sorry, she was an adult when she undertook the affair. She saved the dress, and bragged on her conquest. Sorry, no sympathy from me. The first I could put aside as youthful folly. The second two, sorry, but she deserves for those actions to stick to her like glue.
And to come back around now, to tell everyone she was the first to be cyber bullied is pathetic. And to tell us to ‘move on’? Sorry, we all moved on a decade ago.
She’s trying to strike while the iron is hot, Hillary’s White House bid gives her nonsense legs in the media. Clearly she thought she could parlay that into some more celebrity. And she’s not wrong. But she’s still famous for a blowjob. We didn’t make that her future - she did.
And rather than a low profile, she thinks dragging it all back up in a newspaper article is going to help the nation ‘move on’? Come on, she brought it all back up, she deserves the derision in my mind.
My personal opinion is that she’s watching Kim Kartrashion rise to fame and fortune, her own brand, cosmetics line, paid for appearances, etc, and she kinda thinks it should have been her. Probably thinks she was just ahead of the times! Kim got famous from a sex tape, so why shouldn’t Monica get a seat on that gravy train?
But it all just demonstrates how totally off base her thinking still is, as if any of this publicity seeking behaviour is going to work in her favour!
If she’s right she’ll probably be on Dancing With The Stars next season.
She wasn’t a child then, and she’s certainly not a child now. She opened this can of worms again, once again in search of fame. And once again, she is terribly misguided about people’s perception of her.
She should consider hiring a publicist as she’s proven herself pretty bad at handling it herself. Maybe she should hire the guy Charelie Sheen fired. On reflection he was doing a fine job until Charlie took things into his own hands, when you think about it!
I find her claim to be “the first victim of cyber-bullying” to be dubious at best. While she was young, she was still an adult when she made her indiscretion.
While Drudge’s right-leaning slant with regards to his reporting is no secret, this was a legitimate story. It’s arguable that there might have been more attention paid to her, and more time spent on her than “necessary,” but this was a major story at the time. Since then, she’s become a passe punchline, a la Joey Buttafuoco or Lorena Bobbitt. She faded into obscurity, becoming nothing more than a footnote in history.
I say, if she wants to stand up against cyber-bullying, then I say “good for her.” But, that being said, I feel like this attempt at relevance is going to position her to be a target of cyber-bullying much more than she ever was, two decades ago.
Some of those actually were, and are, simultaneous.
Having sex with a superior on workplace premises, and then expecting privacy, is a really really bad idea. The fact that bad consequences may follow is not “cyberbullying”.
Ok, but that was eighteen years ago.
As she fully admits, she made a very bad choice, one which she deeply regrets every day of her life.
How long should she pay for this? She tried to just go on and live a normal life, but she can’t get hired and she can’t walk around without attracting attention. She tried to capitalize on it, but she’s not actually a Kim Kardashian type- she doesn’t have it in her to turn infamy into just plane fame. She doesn’t have the choice to just live a quiet life. Either she does something with her fame, or she lives in hiding until she dies.
The woman is 40 years old. 40 years old. This happened when I was a little kid, and in the time in between I’ve grown up, went through my own internships, got a career and had a family of my own. Everyone else involved has gone on with their lives. The Clintons have moved on long ago.
Why should she, and she alone, be the one to wear a mark of shame for the rest of her life? Especially for some stupid stunt she pulled at the age of 22?
Ha! I see what you did there. 