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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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 [/quote]

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. [b]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.[/b] 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.[/quote]

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

+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. [/quote]

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