Poll: Do you support the attempts to slut-shame Monica Lewinsky

[lumberjack_jeff]

22. "Slut-shaming" as it is applied to this situation is ridiculous.

Even the tiniest fig leaf of rhetorical victimization can serve as an effective shield to insulate ones self from your track record of misdeeds, malfeasance and shitty ethics.

"Slut shaming" can apparently even work as a get out of jail free card for someone who had a pivotal role in rendering the Federal Government nonfunctional, helped bring GW Bush to office (and consequently 9-11, a depression and two wars) through a narcissistic plan and preservation of the trophy as evidence.

Why? Hypoagency, that's why. She's not fully responsible for what she did, for how she subsequently acted and for whom she told.

She saved the dress for its insurance and extortive value, but lost control by making the mistake of including Linda Tripp in the group of people to whom she bragged, and Linda had her own agenda.

None of what she did deflects, excuses or mitigates what Clinton did, that's another topic, and a red herring at that. There's plenty of well-placed shame, blame and responsibility to go around.

She deserves no sympathy, and particularly not from democrats who can remember how fucked up the subsequent decade was.

Slut-shaming is criticism of sexually-active single women. There's a world of difference between that and criticism of what Lewinski did and its impact on the world in which our children will live. No one would care if she'd sought her trophies in Hollywood instead of DC. She's not a horrible person because she's sexually active. She's a horrible person because she's a horrible person.

Were it not for Monica Lewinsky, President Gore would have been replaced in 2008 by his Vice President Lieberman Kerry.