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?





















