Monica Lewinsky reframes her understanding of sexual consent as it applied to her relationship with Bill Clinton through the lens of the #MeToo moment.
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Monica Lewinsky: Emerging From “the House of Gaslight” in the Age of #MeToo
On the 20th anniversary of Ken Starr’s investigation of President Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky reconsiders her relationship with Clinton — 27 years her senior — through the lens of the #MeToo moment, and realizes that given their power differential, the word “consensual” might not perfectly apply.
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We Were Awful to Monica Lewinsky But We’d Like to Think We’d Act Differently Today
Ms. Lewinsky was quickly cast by the media as a “little tart,” as The Wall Street Journal put it. The New York Post nicknamed her the “Portly Pepperpot.” She was described by Maureen Dowd in The New York Times as “ditsy” and “predatory.” And other women — self-proclaimed feminists — piled on. “My dental hygienist […]
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Monica Lewinsky's Vanity Fair Essay, Now Online
Yes, we’re all connected now. We can tweet a revolution in the streets or chronicle achievements large and small. But we’re also caught in a feedback loop of defame and shame, one in which we have become both perps and victims. We may not have become a crueler society—although it sure feels as if we […]