Where, pray tell, is the man who is remembered just for sex? Where is the guy who is the constant joke for something he did in his sexually wanton youth?
Posted on 01/02/2007 5:18:23 AM PST by shrinkermd
...She is a branded woman, not an adulterer but something even worse -- a girl toy, a trivial thing, a punch line. Yet she did what so many women at that age would do. She seduced (or so she thought) an older man. She fantasized that he would leave his wife for her. Here was her crime: She was a girl besotted. It happens even to Republicans.
But she is now a woman with a master's degree from a prestigious school and is going to be 34 come July. Her clock ticks, her life ebbs. Where is the man for her? Where is the guy brave enough, strong enough, admirable enough to take her as his wife, to suffer the slings and arrows of her outrageous fortune -- to say to the world (for it would be the entire world) that he loves this woman who will always be an asterisk in American history. I hope there is such a guy out there. It would be nice. It would be fair.
It would be nice, too, and fair, also, if Lewinsky were treated by the media as it would treat a man....
This is the year 2007, brand new and full of promise. It would be nice if my colleagues in the media would resolve to treat Monica Lewinsky as a lady, to think of her as they would themselves, to remember their own youth and the things they did and to understand that from this day forward anyone who takes a cheap shot at Lewinsky has a moral and professional obligation to look in the mirror. To proceed otherwise is to miss the joke entirely. No longer is it Monica Lewinsky. It is now the people who write about her.
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So giving head to an unmarried boss on company time is OK?
He's asking why we don't treat her as we would a man who'd committed similar indiscretions. Well, until recently, women were supposed to be the fairer sex, and promiscuity in women was worse for them and for society in general.
How many 34 year old debauched former interns have WP writers attempting to portray their "concern" by acting as as matchmakers - while of course once again dredging up their salacious past?
Richard Cohen, leave Monica out of your media rhapsodizing...if you really are 'concerned' for her.
The jokes write themselves...
'Monica House' coffee...
No blue dress for the press...
If [censored], you must acquit...
Cheers!
Yes, if this CBS news reporterette is to be trusted...
Cheers!
She is no worse than Parris Hilton, Britney Spears,or a host of other Hollywood sluts . They will find men somewhere that will eventually marry them for a while. I doubt any of their marriages will last long.
They also have the money, and good looks, Monica lacks.
Are they Ladies? By no stretch of the imagination. IMO they are whores.Party Girls. Rich, Affluent, Idiots.
Where, pray tell, is the man who is remembered just for sex? Where is the guy who is the constant joke for something he did in his sexually wanton youth?
Yeah, it is not Monica's fault she was young and stupid.
Her life is wrecked, and he gets richer and more priviledged. We see it in the corporate environment all the time as well.
A woman gets divorced, is vulnerable, and the men line up for the Grand Opening.
She leaves, they get fatter.
Then we would have the TWO smartest women in the world running the country (Monica now has an 'advanced degree' from a European university).
It would show them both as open minded women of today... and Bill would be taken care of... He'd have the two things he values most: power and access illicit sex at his back door.
My thoughts exactly.
The real injustice here, if there is one, is that while the young, besotted one continues to be a worldwide joke, the individual who was the nominal grown-up in the situation, the person who doesn't have the excuse of youth, who not only acted as a sexually wanton adolescent, but who also wantonly violated his supposedly grown-up vows---of marriage, of his Oath of Office, of his requirements as an officer of the court---continues to get off scott-free.
If Cohen wants justice and maturity in this matter, he should agitate for holding the "responsible" person responsibile.
There is no reason in the world why Monica Lewinsky should take the brunt of his stupidity as an adult along with her stupidity as a youth.
It would also be "nice" and "fair" if the media would treat Republicans as they treat Democrats.
It would be nice if my colleagues in the media would resolve to treat Monica Lewinsky as a lady
She's NOT a lady. Her treatment is in accordance with her behavior.
to remember their own youth and the things they did
Did any of them blow a president?
and to understand that from this day forward anyone who takes a cheap shot at Lewinsky has a moral and professional obligation to look in the mirror.
That obligation was ALWAYS there. But it applies to more than Monica Lewinsky. And it is conspicuously absent there too.
It is now [about]the people who write about her.
No, it's not. They're buffoons. Nothing has changed.
I wonder, however, if he will now call for fair treatment of Linda Tripp. She is also an asterisk in history: the only person to come out of the Clinton White House telling the truth about anything. I am stil waiting for one of the liberals to write the simple sentence: "Linda Tripp told the truth."
Amen.
Why doesn't Cohen bring up that little "unfairness"?
Bill Clinton had many and much more powerful imperatives to avoid the conduct he instead ran to---in his words, "just because he could."
Yet he is lionized by the very journalists who make fun of Monica. What jerks.
So very true. And flashing one's underwear is not considered to be lady-like where I grew up, either.
I agree 100%!!!
What better describes another of the double standards?--that are alive and well even on FR!
I wonder if Mr. Cohen is willing to show the same compassion and forgiveness for Linda Tripp?
Morals, honor, and integrity are blind when it comes to political parties. Sorry, but it's true.
And ladies,single or married,know that when a boss asks for a bj,it's *not* because he's ready to bring her home to meet Mom and Dad.
"Yet she did what so many women at that age would do. She seduced (or so she thought) an older man. She fantasized that he would leave his wife for her."
Cohen's world view... As if that were normal and no big deal...
The truth is, Clinton was the user and the abuser. She was simply used as a piece of soft pliable meat that would service him.
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