Monica Lewinsky is a Victim Who Wants to Use Her Suffering to Fix Our Culture

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Monica Lewinsky wants to save us from our coarsening culture by telling us to feel sorry for her. She joined Twitter and delivered a speech about Cyberbullying… which she understands really well because newspapers said mean things about her.

No, seriously.

“But having survived myself, what I want to do now is help other victims of the shame game survive too. I want to put my suffering to good use and give purpose to my past.”

You can’t even blame this one on millenials.

A woman whose only claim to fame is committing adultery with the President of the United States “survived” the “suffering” of being mocked in newspapers and now wants to use her story to fix our culture.

This is so wrong that it’s almost a mental illness. Except it’s not.

There was a rotation of worsening name calling and descriptions of me. I would go online, read in a paper or see on TV people referring to me as: tramp, slut, whore, tart, bimbo, floozy, even spy.

The New York Post’s Page Six took to calling me, almost daily, the Portly Pepperpot. I was shattered.

As sympathetic as I am to victims suffering from namecalling, these descriptions were not exactly inaccurate. It’s wrong to call someone a child molester because you don’t like them. It’s not wrong if they actually are molesting children.

Lewinsky is acting as if being called “Portly pepperpot” makes her a survivor of something. It doesn’t.

That’s what our “I Feel” culture has forgotten. Some people should be shamed. We can disagree on which people, but I don’t really see there being much of a Monica Lewinsky lobby here. The one thing Democrats and Republicans can agree on.

Bystander apathy is half the problem. I’d much rather be part of the solution. I don’t know which came first: the coarsening of the culture or the worsening of behavior…

Actually, what we really need is a cultural revolution. Online, we’ve got a compassion deficit – an Empathy Crisis — and something tells me that matters a lot more to most of us.

Lewinsky thinks that people mocking her showed the coarsening of the culture. She’s sorta half-right, but not really. She’s the product of a coarsened culture and is oblivious to her own behavior. When she criticizes the culture, she means that people were mean to her.

She can’t conceive of the culture except in terms of the self.

I agree that the internet’s predilection for lynch mobs is a serious problem, but Lewinsky wasn’t a victim of the internet. That’s just how she’s trying to make her story relevant.

It doesn’t occur to her to view cultural coarsening in any terms other than the wrongness of mocking people like her or Clementi for their sexual misconduct. And while there’s an element of wrongness to those things, it’s just one aspect of a culture with no morals, only vague tribalistic values in a game of political ping pong.

Lewinsky has now entered the game. No sooner did she join in, than the Washington Post’s Caitlin Dewey put together a list of negative tweets that Monica received.

“So, to recap: Woman joins Twitter to start admirable anti-cyberbullying campaign. Woman tweets literally two times. Trolls come out by the dozens, many of them hurling distinctly gendered, slur-dripping abuse. Good job, Internet: You’ve done yourself proud today,” Dewey writes.

Dewey is an idiot, her summary reads like the usual SJW Buzzfeed drivel, but that’s not the point. The point is that for all her talk about reclaiming her identity, all Monica has done is transformed herself into the victim to be made use of by activists like Dewey.

And the only thing activists like Caitlin Dewey do is cry cyberbullying while abusing others. It’s a game for narcissists with very little self-awareness. Monica Lewinsky and her entitled whining are perfect for it.

Here’s what I wrote about her earlier this year...

Hillary Clinton was right to call her a “narcissistic loony toon”, but Hillary, running for president on a platform of her own Monica-manufactured celebrity, is an even more narcissistic loony toon than Monica could ever aspire to be. And Bill Clinton, who chases cameras as avidly as he chases women, is the king of all narcissistic loony toons.

The real victim wasn’t any of these three repulsive characters. It was the United States of America…

It’s the women who didn’t accede to Bill Clinton’s sexual demands and were smeared by Hillary Clinton for daring to complain about it… who are the victims. It’s the Americans who didn’t play Monica Lewinsky at the ballot box, surrendering to Bill Clinton’s charms while ignoring a funny little man in a cave who was threatening to attack America after bombing its embassies, who are the victims.

Monica Lewinsky is the Clinton and Obama voter, narcissistic to a fault and incapable of acknowledging fault, feeling victimized but unable to point to the real perpetrator, blaming Republicans for exposing her sordid behavior and that of the man who was taking advantage of her, and then complaining that she can’t find work.

Who needs a special essay from Monica Lewinsky when any Obama voter will tell you the same story?

  • RMThoughts

    She left her indelible mark on our political culture when Bill left his mark on her little blue dress with impunity.

  • Texas Patriot

    Daniel, I shall expect you to be kind toward Monica Lewinsky. Unlike our enemies in ISIS, et al., Americans respect completely the right of women to be women. As Frank Sinatra said in response to a book written by one of his ex-girlfriends, “It never ceases to amaze me what a dame will say for a buck.”

  • Pete

    Ms. Lewinsky is correct. She is the victim and we are wrong.

    In the Old Testament in the book of Monica verse it says “If the husband is a philanderer and the marriage is one of convenience, then it is moral to break it up.”

    You don’t want to see the other verses of the book of Monica.

    • Biff Henderson

      You mean the one about you are what you eat?

  • tagalog

    The real victim was Hillary Clinton. She was victimized by both her husband and Monica Lewinsky, who, whatever their motivations were, didn’t consider for a moment what effect their decisions might have on a wife. No matter what you think of her politics she didn’t deserve to be the victim of an adulterous affair.

    Monica Lewinsky was not a child when she had her affair. She was old enough and high-achieving enough and smart enough to get a White House internship. She knew what she was doing. The fact that her boss was the President of the United States doesn’t make her any less of an adulterer, or excuse her adulterous behavior. It wasn’t only on the internet that she got called a bunch of names. It was everywhere. She asked for it and should have known what she was letting herself in for.

    • Atikva

      Thank you for the good laugh. The day isn’t born yet when Mrs. Clinton will be victimized by anybody. If only there would be a day when she doesn’t victimize somebody, that would be a tremendous improvement, but alas…

      • tagalog

        I’m not going to defend Hillary Clinton any more than I already have. But unless you know what adultery does, you don’t know what I’m talking about.

    • Pete

      Where will Monica Lewinsky be 20 years from now?

      Her mother, father, stepfather will probably be dead?

      Bill Clinton will likely died of natural causes by that time. Anyway, he is seeing another woman, Julie McMahon.

      Monica should have found a young man her age. The usual route would have to have enrolled in a dual degree program to get a bachelors degree and a Mrs degree.

      Twenty years from now she will be alone and while she will have lived in some fairly nice digs and partook of good food, but her life will not have been fruitful or fulfilling.

      Bill Clinton’s Loves & Hookups : a partial list

      • Biff Henderson

        Don’t be so quick to judge. A book on sperm-burping etiquette could be a run-away bestseller.

        • Pete

          As soon as Monica runs out of money, she will be like all those musician that run out of money. Their posse deserts them never to be seen again.

          Does Monica have any long term friends? Maybe she could take out an insurance policy, so she has some paid mourners at her funeral.

          She did it to herself and it seems no one can talk her out of it. she has maybe a few years of finding a guy and starting a family, but she will keep on pining away. Now she is in a rut. Her parents failed her. They should have put her in check & slapped her upside the head.

          In 1992, she began a five-year affair with Andy Bleiler, her married former high school drama instructor

          Anyway, I’m done.

    • Boots

      Hillary is no victim. She was a willing participant who ran the ground game in destroying all accusers. There is little doubt in my mind she knows where all of Bill’s bodies are buried and was aware of all of his affairs as they were in progress. Just my opinion, shared by many, but she doesn’t care what he does as long as he doesn’t get caught and publicly humiliate her. And fact… my military career would’ve been over had I even been accused of what we know he did (perjury and affairs with subordinates). Wouldn’t have mattered if I were innocent… my fitness reports would have reflected the will of the lynch mob.

  • Josh

    Monica Lewisnsky, while playing victim, is using her victimhood to try and build a future for herself. Without the Clinton affair, Lewinsky would be an irrelevant name. The difference between her and other true victims that she cites are that she is a victim of herself and her decisions to have an affair. While the news media latched on and called her names, they didn’t call her anything that wasn’t brought upon by her decisions to have an affair in the office of the highest ranking and most notable public official in the world. This speech takes true victimhood, crumples it up, and makes a mockery of it.

  • montana83

    Monica is a victim?
    Monica is suffering?
    People unwillingly under Islam are victims and are suffering.

    • tagalog

      She may be suffering, but she brought it on herself. She went into what she went into with her eyes wide open.

      • tickletik

        eh. Young women have no business being in that snake pit to begin with. Power is an aphrodisiac and all that. Also, the senators and congressmen/women have enough temptation to corruption as it is.

  • De Doc

    And if this plan doesn’t work out, she always has a future in marketing Cuban cigars.

  • laura r

    monica met BC. right away she picked up her skirt from the back. turned around & flashed her throng underwear. she made the first move. she told every detail to linda tripp. she is no shy girl. soon after she designed handbags for henri bendels. plleeessse monica you did this to yourself.

  • fmobler

    I think Ms. Lewinski and Mr. Greenfield both miss an important point. She was indeed a victim, not of the Internet, but of Bill Clinton. We can claim that she was an adult, etc., but we know that “consent” does not really work in situations of vastly unequal power. I’d say being the boss of the Attorney General constitutes unequal power. That said, she is still as clueless as ever.

  • objectivefactsmatter

    This after how many years to reflect?

    Definitely a DP lifer.

  • FedUpWithWelfareStates

    No thanks…you have already introduced the word “Blow Job” to my children at a very young age…enough damage from you Nasty person…

  • cajunwarthog

    No tears for monica from me. She played her cards and lost. If she would would have “come out” in the beginning I would have some feels for her, but after all these years of silence,,,, no way.

  • Heddrick Steel

    Monica Lewinsky was a young impressionable lady who fell victim to a sexually promiscuous, married man. That was a huge mistake on her part, and she cannot escape her share of responsibility. However, Bill Clinton was the president, his authority over her was a psychological Everest for anyone to climb, so it should be evident that Lewinsky was taken advantage of. And then this young woman’s mistake was the subject of a year’s long public feud. I feel sorry for her. My sense is that she is a victim of workplace, sexual predation.

    • Tim N

      I kind of agree, I actually feel sort of sorry for her myself.
      Who hasn’t done stupid or irresponsible things in their younger days? Add to that the star struck factor and I think it’s forgivable. Whatever her sins she didn’t kill anyone or wreck anyone’s life but her own.
      “Monica Lewinsky” will forever be the butt of a bad joke. Who wants to go through life like that? Who wants to introduce Clintons BJ as his wife?
      I don’t really care what she has to say on any given subject, and I just try not to give her airtime in my head. No doubt this will precipitate the usual angry retorts but what the heck.

  • tickletik

    I’m skeptical about how well any young woman would have done in that place. If Bill didn’t get ‘er, ‘illary would ‘ave.

    • http://www.stubbornthings.org NAHALKIDES

      Ha-ha! One thing’s for sure – WH interns under the Clintons (so to speak) should have received hazardous duty pay.

  • cree

    Who should deserve more condemnation? A moral president would have shut down that infatuation. Because he didn’t they both now bear the consequences of their actions. Some true, sincere humility from both might instill some atonement; but, this became a damaging part of American history and only time will forget their shame from memory, the congressional record, only suppressed. From the “if it feels good, do it” crowd, they wonder what the big deal is. They can ask Monica.

  • Texas Patriot

    Atikva: Let’s have it out in the open and let the public decide whether this is the kind of people they want to lead the country – and the kind of interns they want their children to become.

    I agree completely, but in my opinion the fault in the Lewinsky case was not so much that of the woman-employee but that of her boss, who was in a position of authority and apparently at least permitted the improper behavior. What I don’t like is moral vigilantes dragging the name of the victim through the mud.

    • Atikva

      Personally, I am concerned by the performance of our politicians, not by their sexual life – as long as it does not interfere with said performance, of course. However, it’s not like Mr. Clinton’s indecent behavior could have been mitigated by his outstanding presidential performance, far from it! As to who’s to blame, legally there is no victim and no predator when the two partners are consenting adults, therefore case closed.

      What I find unacceptable in this case is the place and time chosen by both partners to have their fooling around, as if there were not enough motels in Washington DC for this purpose after workhours. Such people who have no dignity, no respect for the American people, are definitely unfit to set foot in the White House – except as tourists.

      • Texas Patriot

        Unfortunately we are likely to hear the incident brought up again and again during the next two years leading up to November 2016, but all that really means is that the faux conservative right wing is so bereft and desperate for new ideas that it can’t do any better than attack someone who is not running for conduct that happened almost twenty years ago and should never have come to light in the first place.

        The bottom line is that the Conservative movement in America is bankrupt and dead in the water. There’s so much that needs to be discussed, and so many radical changes of direction we need to make. And all we hear from those who should know better is the same third rate political propaganda and personal attacks and character assassination.

        It’s beyond pathetic, really, and it will not resonate well with the American people who are fed up with the same old windbags and want real solutions to real problems.

        • Atikva

          As I don’t pay attention to personal attacks in the
          political sphere, I can’t recall any “third rate personal attacks and character assassination” from what you call “the faux conservatives.” Actually, in the matter object of this article, it is “the victim” who reopened the closed book, not the conservatives.

          What I do remember, though, because it descended to the abyss of indignity, are the attacks against Sarah Palin, particularly the insults aimed at her Down Syndrome child. And those did not come from from conservatives, real or false, but from the liberal, democrat, progressist, islamo-socialist wing of the American left.

          • Texas Patriot

            I couldn’t agree more that the personal attacks and smear campaigns against Sarah Palin are despicable and reprehensible. Unfortunately, there are many the right who have resorted to the same tactics, and I do not think you will have to look very hard to find them. The sad truth is that in the vast majority of cases such attacks are unnecessary and inappropriate and oftentimes the result of a lack of political integrity and imagination. What the American people want and need is a vision for the future prosperity and security of all Americans and workable blueprint and game plan for making it happen, and we both know that that sort of pragmatic approach to politics is not coming from either of the major political parties today.

  • cloud_buster

    I do have some sympathy for Lewinsky. She was a foolish young girl being used by the most powerful man in the world, and she was thrown to the dogs by liberals as soon as they needed to act to save that powerful man. She may still be naive and foolish, but she is indeed a victim. Bill Clinton, the President of the United States, was supposed to be the grown-up in that room — in any room — not the intern.

    He collects millions in speakers fees and is a mover and shaker in national politics. She’s the butt of jokes. Who was victimized here? Her and the American people, by Bill Clinton. He made a mockery of the office he held.