Interesting take on the swell of internet activity surrounded by bullying, shaming and the money behind internet humiliation.
Monica is surprisingly frank and her message rings true. Warning: Video is 22 minutes long, but definitely worth the time.
I’m pretty sure I saw that when it first came out. It’s an excellent talk. She says a lot of important things.
I think the takeaway that’s most important is that she’s a human being, and as such, worthy of our consideration instead of our scorn.
Did she mention who was responsible for this “shaming”?
Or that she’s the one that would not let it die?
Or move on?
Or continues to seek profit/fame from it?
I’ve never had that impression of her. And in the video she asks “Why now, you’re wondering?” etc, conveying the impression that she has not been in the limelight or done interviews or been in the public eye for years and years. Got a cite to the contrary?
A decade after the world had mostly forgotten her and her antics, she profited off of an article on how it’s ‘time to burn the dress’. Stirring it up again, apparently simply to get back into the spotlight.
In fact, everyime the world forgets about her she comes roaring back injecting herself into the spotlight in any way she can.
She seems determined to parlay her shameful past into Kartrashian fame, to me.
- shrug *
The linked video is a good video with very little self-aggrandizement. If she’s going to seek the spotlight, well, she’s doing good things in that spotlight at the moment, or so it appears.
This. Especially her comments about Tyler Clementi.
That actually had me tearing up quite a bit.
Apparently the price is quite low and the return is high enough to make money from it.
The fame-whore’s at it again? She shows up every two years or so. For someone who’s sole talent is apparently giving blow-jobs and defending the boss who sexually harassed her, she’s surprisingly hard to get rid of like a cockroach.
2016
2014 (where she uses Tyler Clementi as a prop again-which is sad. He’s a legit victim. She’s just a publicity-slut.)
2012
I’d be a lot less contemptuous of her if she actually, y’know, talked about her responsibility in the situation (like whoring her story out every two years or so every time she’s starting to be forgotten) or how women are often victims of unequal workplace power instead of how Bill is just a sweetums and it’s all the meanie bullies who are responsible for her life being fucked up.
Monica’s just a publicity-hunting, talentless bimbo who’s doing her best to keep herself in the spotlight.
She totally mischaracterizes what happened to Tyler Clementi. Neither Clementi nor Lewinsky were victims of cyber bullying.
I guess I wasn’t paying attention, I did not realize she had been a publicity hound on and off for years. My assumption was that this was her first time back in the spotlight since the Clinton episode(s).
I wouldn’t watch a 22 second video of her even if I was paid $22.
Why? Because of some preconceived notions about her based on a scandal 20 years ago? Mistakes she made when quite young?
She experienced something that puts her in an almost unique position to talk about a very important societal issue.
The slagging off of her here doesn’t speak well of the people doing it.
Seriously? Seems a pretty clear cut case to me…
https://cyberbullying.ua.edu/index.php/case-study-tyler-clementi/
The thing is that she deserved the scorn she got twenty years ago for the mistakes she made. She should learn from her mistakes and move on.
If she was trying to live a private life somewhere and assholes kept bothering her, then I might agree. But she continues to show up in public appearances and whines about how people should just forget her. If you go away, we would have forgotten about you already.
I doubt it feels to her that the world has forgotten. Every time she tells her name to anyone, they’re going to be reminded of the scandal. I can understand her wanting to talk about her past on her own terms, as a way of feeling in control of it.
As for what she “deserved”, plenty of other people have done basically the same thing as she did and not received remotely the same sort of public shaming. She made a particularly foolish choice of who to get involved with – but do people who make foolish choices deserve more suffering than anyone else?
Also, Bill’s part in things was clearly worse (he was breaking his vows to his wife, and abusing his position of power over a subordinate) and I believe he suffered less for it.
Lord no. She’s been seeking out…um…‘fame’ since at least 2008 when she was putting out feelers about a “tell-all” interview to screw Hillary which bombed when Obama crushed Hillary. (As an aside Hillary described Monica as a “narcissistic loony toon”, which understates the issue considerably).