2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: "Memo to candidate Hillary Clinton: I could have been a Monica Lewinsky" [View all]HassleCat
(6,409 posts)Bill Clinton's behavior was reprehensible. He did take advantage of his powerful position to have sex with women, so Lewinski and Paula Jones and probably others are victims to an extent. I just don't think it's a really big deal that Hillary Clinton wouls react the way she did. It may be an example of victim shaming, since it attributes mental illness. The same goes for some of the comments that Lewinski was an evil slut, scheming to entrap poor, innocent Bill, etc. The problem is, there is a certain amount of truth to that portrayal, even if the intent was to make the victim appear to be the predator. It seems to me they both pursued the same thing, as well as each other. I feel no sympathy for Bill Clinton, and some for Monica Lewinski, but not that much.