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In reply to the discussion: My thoughts on the Clinton affair: Linda Tripp is the one who caused most trauma to Monica. [View all]JayhawkSD
(3,163 posts)The double standard is amazing. When a woman is "molested" by an employer it is never in any degree her fault, not even one percent. She is 100% a victim in the affair.
But another affair, the woman is at fault. She set out to seduce the guy and he, who in the other case was all-powerful and totally controlling the woman, in in this case so weak and controlled by the woman that he is unable to remain faithful to his wife.
So sometimes it's one way, sometimes it's the other. It doesn't depend on the degree of power, either, because in this case the guy who was victimized by the evil Monica was the President of The United States of America. It depends on who's telling it and who we like or don't like, in which the whole subject loses any trace of credibility.