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

[MADem]

95. Look, this conversation about "Monica" isn't happening in a vacuum.

This is not about "tearing down" or "the system." This is a political move that benefits both the Democrats, by shaking all the cobwebs out and airing this business one more time early on, and Monica because it gives her an opportunity to monetize this VF essay and get a little cash in hand to keep on keeping on. She makes her money on her reputation, such as it is, and it keeps the bills paid.

She's put herself out there and given Vanity Fair an opportunity to showcase her POV; she is the AUTHOR of that article, those are HER words-- and as for feeling ashamed, that horse left the barn over a decade and a half ago-- Monica is the person who single-handedly changed the definition of sex for all the generations to come after her. She's PAST shame, in fact, that's what the article, that she wrote, is addressing, how she coped with all the crap thrown at her.

The only people obsessing about her previous sexual liaisons or crying about her victimization at this stage are old fuddy-duddies who haven't had any exposure to young people under the age of thirty.

It's a very simple tale. She had the hots for a powerful man, she put herself in his proximity, and he was a horny, humping little pig who would screw anything that moved, who didn't respect his marital vows and came THIS close to losing his job as a consequence. That's the story. Simple. BIG ooooops. Shouldn't-a done that!

You've got that twit Miley Cyrus cheerily calling all her audience attendees "sluts" on the London stage just this past week, like it's a badge of honor, the new "in" word. She runs around with stuffed toys and lollipops like a perv's delight, putting her butt in everyone's face and sticking her coated tongue out--by contrast, the middle-aged "Portly Pepperpot's" conduct in the WH appears positively demure--at least she didn't film it!

I suspect we'll be hearing a lot more of Miley's "S" word in future, like it or not. The minute anyone tries to get pompous about a topic, there will be a crew that takes it and runs in the other direction. Times are changing, word meanings are changing (that "b" word that everyone here on DU hates is part of the MORNING tv landscape, and only here is it VERBOTEN, but...whatever) and girls are now "allowed" to enjoy/initiate/set parameters for sex. They are no longer the presumptive victims, the poor pitiful Pearls.

Further, the point of any Oooh-la-la-ing over this ancient tale of lust, poetry books and pizza is not about "shaming" Monica, it's to do with EMBARRASSING Bill--no fool like an old fool, can't keep his weenie in his trousers, doesn't he go for the chubby ones, the usual schtick that they like to drag out to try to revive an old tale. It's also about trying to throw Hillary off her game, to insert Monica into the conversation, to say "Ha ha ha, Hillary can't keep her man!" "Look at Hillary, she stuck with a cheater, Bill doesn't lurrrrrrrv her!!!!"

It's all horse shit, covered in chocolate sauce, and plenty of fools will eat it up like ice cream.

The thing is, though, they'll be belly-full and burping up shit by the time the campaign season begins in earnest--they won't WANT any more Monica stories. That's why this rollout, uncomfy as it is, is a good thing now rather than later. It's like that slight flu-ish feeling one gets after the flu shot, which is better than getting the flu later, and being stuck in bed coughing up a lung for a week or more.

Fortunately for Bill, he has thick skin, he'll throw a little of "the Lord's forgiveness" schtick at them that neutralizes the whole attitude about HIS "sluttiness," and he'll move on, refusing to be cowed. Fortunately for Hillary, she knows how to make an asshole trying to deride her look like an asshole--ask Rick Lazio, he'll tell ya.

And Monica? She has had an opportunity to make a few bucks now, add a bit of mature nuance to her "persona," and she can follow this effort on with a few of those Euro paid interviews, or US ones that can be sold abroad where she gets a chunk of the profits, so she won't need to cheapen her brand/take it too far in the heat of campaign season. It's all about timing. And it sure as hell beats working for a living.

Sounds like a win-win-win to me.