Monica Lewinsky in New clothes campaign

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like it's fine to be the Other Woman as many times as you want as long as you are younger than the man and he is doing better professionally.

Is there an age cut-off for this, or such a woman is seen as a victim in perpetuity?

I am a woman and I find this mentality insulting. It's wrong when a man does it-- and it's wrong when a woman does it, too.

100%!! I can't believe there are people who say she's a role model. For what?!

She is free to live her life now but she absolutely made bad choices and people are free to morally judge that.

Ok she made a bad choice. But if you judge her 25 years later, that’s really says more about you.

No one is saying she should still be some kind of pariah. But there's a lot of space between that and "role model."

JFC you moron, people think she is a role model NOT for the affair but for how she has handled the absolutely over the top vitriol, shaming, and abuse she has been subjected to ever since!

I can’t tell if some of you are being deliberately obtuse or if you really are this stupid.

Uh oh, the Completely Unhinged have arrived. Lol

Yes, we see you, and we want you to shut up.

Monica has gone through so much and come through what would’ve crushed many other people.

I’m the same age as her, and I admire the hell out of her.

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No respect for her. She's had her whole life to move on.

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Anonymous wrote:No respect for her. She's had her whole life to move on.

To what, exactly?

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Anonymous wrote:No respect for her. She's had her whole life to move on.

To what, exactly?

So glad people see this. You’re so right.

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She is one of Alan Cumming’s best friends and in interviews they are so cute together. Made me like her.

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Anonymous wrote:She is one of Alan Cumming’s best friends and in interviews they are so cute together. Made me like her.

Huh, didn’t realize this. Interesting

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She is one of Alan Cumming’s best friends and in interviews they are so cute together. Made me like her.

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Anonymous wrote:I am very confused why so many people are in her corner when the White House affair was NOT the first time she was the other woman.

She is savvy, that one.

People have short memories.

It’s actually because she has suffered enough for a mistake that was really no one else’s business in the first place.

Her having an affair with the US President, that the American people voted for and pay the salary, is no one’s business?? Um yes the hell it is.

No, it isn’t. Do you think it’s your business if Jill gives Joe good head, too? I mean, you voted for the guy, how could it not be!

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She’s looking fiiinnneeee. I like the outfits. Good for her.

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Anonymous wrote: And let's be honest - how many of us in our early 20s made perfect decisions all the time re: men? I know there are some things I did that I wish I could take back

I mean sure... I made some questionable decisions wrt men in my 20s, but I didn't pursue older, married people MULTIPLE TIMES. From what was shared regarding the Clinton affair, it was Lewinski who pursued Clinton. He initially tried to rebuff her. Clinton was 100% wrong to acquiesce. He should have recognized that there was a power imbalance even if she was the aggressor. I do not believe that Lewinski was a victim during the affair, but she sure as hell was a victim in the fallout. She did not have the maturity to understand what could happen if things went sideways. Clinton SHOULD have had that maturity, but clearly didn't.

I think she looks great in the campaign!

Zero chance. I'm Monica's age and met him a year earlier than the affair. I was with a friend who is drop dead gorgeous, same coloring as Monica's. He immediately went to her to shake hands, even though he walked past people to do so. He is, hands down, the most magnetic person I've ever met, or seen, IRL.

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Insanely magnetic. He eagerly shook my hand at a dinner back in the late 90s.

Agree. He talked with me for a minute and shook my hand at a campaign event before he was elected - he made it seem like he was thoroughly focused on me and was just so magnetic.

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Anonymous wrote:Her taking advantage of her icky fame is far worse than any behavior by men, since it was consensual

The world made it hard for her to do much else. Imagine trying to make a living after everything that happened

This. She was on a podcast recently (with Amanda Knox) and said that when he was trying to figure out how to move on and her mom suggested that she just volunteer somewhere since she couldn’t get a job, the non-profit asked her not to come back because they were worried about the reaction.

I *do* think she is a role model. Read the ESPN article about kids (boys and girls) are committing suicide because they are being blackmailed with real or fake intimate photos. My generation (X) never had our stupid teenage/ young adult mistakes able to be photographed or videoed for all to see. She is showing that mistakes can be made, you can think your life is completely over (she also thought about committing suicide), AND that you can still recover. I would gladly share her story with my kids and their friends if they are at risk of giving up due to being publicly humiliated due to one bad choice.

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Anonymous wrote:Her taking advantage of her icky fame is far worse than any behavior by men, since it was consensual

The world made it hard for her to do much else. Imagine trying to make a living after everything that happened

This. She was on a podcast recently (with Amanda Knox) and said that when he was trying to figure out how to move on and her mom suggested that she just volunteer somewhere since she couldn’t get a job, the non-profit asked her not to come back because they were worried about the reaction.

I *do* think she is a role model. Read the ESPN article about kids (boys and girls) are committing suicide because they are being blackmailed with real or fake intimate photos. My generation (X) never had our stupid teenage/ young adult mistakes able to be photographed or videoed for all to see. She is showing that mistakes can be made, you can think your life is completely over (she also thought about committing suicide), AND that you can still recover. I would gladly share her story with my kids and their friends if they are at risk of giving up due to being publicly humiliated due to one bad choice.

Well said.

Many of us think she's a hero for the way she's overcome the adversity of having the whole Clinton machine trying to destroy her. She was vilified on an international level. Not sure how many of us here could get through that let alone thrive.

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Anonymous wrote:The fact that she was under 25 with both of these affairs really does excuse her from most of the blame

The married men were at fault. They took advantage

Agree, combined with the fact that one was a teacher and the other was both the president and her boss. Severe power imbalance. Even if she was the "aggressor" as some of you say, what does that mean in that situation?

She had huge daddy issues and mental health issues. She sought out older, powerful men who she believed could fill that role, and she used what she had (knowing that some of these men would go for a young woman with big boobs who acted a certain way) to tray and get them. She was severely misguided in this and obviously she's grown a lot as a person and is no longer looking for a father figure to replace the one she didn't have as a child. It's not uncommon for it to take until someone's 30s or 40s to work through deep childhood wounds like that. In doing so, she has to contend with WHY she went for these men, and that is where her accountability is -- it lies in unraveling the childhood issues that made this something she did at that age.

The men involved have no such explanation for their behavior. They were much older, in positions of authority over her, and unlike Monica, had made commitments to the people that their relationships with her violated. THEY are responsible for that, not her. She was a confused young woman working through childhood trauma in a self-destructive way. They were full grown married adults in positions of power and authority. I give none of the blame for the cheating (she did not cheat) and none of the blame for the inappropriateness of the relationships in terms of power.

She is accountable for the self-destructive nature of pursuing these relationships and how it reflects on her mental health. She's not responsible for their impact on marriages or workplaces or political structures -- unlike the men involved, she never had any power in those arenas anyway.

+1! A teacher is a mandatory reporter! And here's one abusing her? Disgusting.

+1 And I thought that her issues started by being sexually abused at sleep away camp as a child?

She was a troubled young woman who made some self-destructive mistakes in response to abuse. There absolutely was a power imbalance between her and the teacher and POTUS. And I guarantee that Clinton was giving her signals before she flashed her thong. He knows how to groom women.

Then she received a global backlash that far outweighed her culpability for the presidential affair.

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Hero? lol. DCUM has jumped the shark. Are people paid now to post ridiculous comments? I cannot in good faith believe these posts are real.

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like it's fine to be the Other Woman as many times as you want as long as you are younger than the man and he is doing better professionally.

Is there an age cut-off for this, or such a woman is seen as a victim in perpetuity?

I am a woman and I find this mentality insulting. It's wrong when a man does it-- and it's wrong when a woman does it, too.

100%!! I can't believe there are people who say she's a role model. For what?!

She is free to live her life now but she absolutely made bad choices and people are free to morally judge that.

Ok she made a bad choice. But if you judge her 25 years later, that’s really says more about you.

No one is saying she should still be some kind of pariah. But there's a lot of space between that and "role model."

JFC you moron, people think she is a role model NOT for the affair but for how she has handled the absolutely over the top vitriol, shaming, and abuse she has been subjected to ever since!

I can’t tell if some of you are being deliberately obtuse or if you really are this stupid.

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