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In reply to the discussion: So Monica Lewinsky is cashing in [View all]Sympthsical
(11,060 posts)If I carried on an affair with an underling, including having sex in the place of work, I would be fired so fast, every head in the office would spin.
This is my least favorite defense of Clinton. "Private life!" Oh, it was not. He was the President. She was an intern. It happened at the White House, in the West Wing.
The heads of Time's Up are learning this week a very hard lesson that you don't excuse or minimize bad behavior, just because you like the politics of the person involved. They both got shown the door real quick.
Amazing how all the outrage about powerful men and younger women in the workplace goes right out the window as soon as it's someone whose politics we like.
Predictable, but amazing.
I don't care about any of it. I was too young to vote when it happened. Clinton hasn't been salient to our politics in ages.
But the hypocrisy is a lot bit much. And of course, the woman is the one who gets pilloried. Fancy that.