Posted on 03/25/2015 12:06:16 PM PDT by drewh
Despite the fact that feminists attacked Monica Lewinsky during the Clinton-era, calling her slutty and a trashy bimbo among other things, feminists are now embracing her as an inspiring figure against the tide of slut-shaming.
The change of tune came after Lewinsky gave an interview to Vanity Fair last year, where she called feminists out for attacking her in the 90s. Jessica Bennett wrote a piece on Lewinsky in the Style section of The New York Times, March 19, describing the phenomenon:
"Feminists who had stayed silent on the first go-round were suddenly defending her, using terms like slut-shaming and media gender bias to do it."
ELLE Magazines Jessica Grose wrote, Hopefully the feminists who trashed her back when have learned from their mistakes, too. Grose claimed that feminists backed Lewinsky today because of the rise of social media. She said slut-shamers would have to deal with the backlash from an organized feminist Twitter mob.
Whether or not they learned anything, these feminists have definitely changed their tune. The Vanity Fair and NYT profiles spawned an opportunity for Lewinsky to speak at a TED Conference last week. She spoke about her experience being a target of online bullying which feminists co-opted as an anti-slut-shaming message. Cosmopolitan called it inspiring:
Chris Cillizza of The Washington Post called the talk really, really important while Sarah Cristobal of Yahoo! News praised Lewinsky as a next-gen feminist. Celebrities and journalists have shown their support for Lewinsky on Twitter, with the trending hashtag #IStandWithMonica.
Its hard to predict who feminists will make their next hero. In 2012 it was Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke, who made a name for herself advocating for free birth control. Feminists have praised Lena Dunham, the perpetually-nude Girls director whose false rape allegation and creepy behavior have been swept under the rug by the media. At least Lewinsky has apologized for her well-known sexual act with the former president; but the Left clearly could do better in choosing their feminist icons.
Monica:
Get off the cross. We need it for firewood...
You’re what? Yeah? And so was Jesus and everyone knows his bame.
He didn’t get there by constantly playing the victim card.
“New Feminist Icon?”
\All because she saved a blue dress with bills dna splooged on it?
Great liberal qualifications.
Best headline of the year
Good one.
I wonder what Tammy Wynette would have thought about all this, concerning Hillary’s infamous remark about her in 1992 on “60 Minutes”?
I want a nasty little Jewish Princess
With long phony nails and a hairdo that rinses
A horny little Jewish Princess
With a garlic aroma that could level Tacoma
Lonely inside Well, she can swallow my pride
I need a hairy little Jewish Princess
With a brand new nose, who knows where it goes
I want a steamy little Jewish Princess
With over-worked gums, who squeaks when she cums
I don't want no troll
I just want a Yemenite hole
I want a darling little Jewish Princess
Who don't know shit about cooking and is arrogant looking
A vicious little Jewish Princess To specifically happen with a pee-pee that's snappin'
All up inside I just want a Princess to ride
Awright, back to the top...everybody twist
I want a funky little Jewish Princess
A grinder; a bumper, with a pre-moistened dumper
A brazen little Jewish Princess
With titanic tits, and sand-blasted zits
She can even be poor
So long as she does it with four on the floor (Vapor-lock)
I want a dainty little Jewish Princess
With a couple of sisters who can raise a few blisters
A fragile little Jewish Princess
With Roumanian thighs, who weasels 'n' lies
For two or three nights
Won't someone send me a Princess who bites
Won't someone send me a Princess who bites
Won't someone send me a Princess who bites
Won't someone send me a Princess who bites
What happened was hurting Klinton. Therefore it was her fault and she was bad.
Enough time has now passed that they can embrace her. 50 shades of gray taught them that submitting to the bidding of a psychopathic man is the new feminism.
Atlas Shrugged coming alive each day in the USA.
Now, the looney women on the Left are praising a woman whose best feature is that she apparently excels at blow jobs under the executive desk in the Oval Office.
Isn’t that special?????
Atlas Shrugged coming alive each day in the USA.
Now, the looney women on the Left are praising a woman whose best feature is that she apparently excels at blow jobs under the executive desk in the Oval Office.
Isn’t that special?????
PS:
There are millions of women in this country who ‘have fallen in love with their boss’. They didn’t disrespect the highest office in the country in the manner that she did.
OK. I get it. Suck president’s penis, get dress sprinkled with president’s essential fluids, get hailed by media as new feminist icon. Got it. America is so screwed.
As another alumni of the “the hands of labor should seize the factors of production” cornball liberal college as her, and as the father of someone who suffered severe bullying (gently noting the unpleasantness of torture for the father of the aggressor stopped it), I do have some respect for her and her message.
Also, if not for her, Clinton would be lionized, on Rushmore, the $20, and with Chelsea preparing to follow her mom as President. Monica brought what we all knew, but the press hid, to the forefront. Someone who knows him says that he still jokes that he only got caught with the ugly ones, and that he finds Hillary just as attractive as we do.
The bottom line is that Monica vindicated many people, made it obvious that the press had an agenda to the average person, and that congressional investigations were more partisan than people thought (Clarence Thomas vs impeachment).
If she takes her newfound fame and anti-bullying message and does something positive, I will support her efforts, including financially.If she continues to give my undergraduate school the bad name (deservedly -had to go to grad school to remove the commie stank from my resume), I will not.
This could be a fresh start for Ms Lewinsky, if she just doesn’t blow it .....
The next gym teacher that diddles a young girl, probably.
Their ultimate hero would a female serial rapist of men, the uglier the better.
I think the real question is: Monica Lewinsky - WYB?
Being Eskimo Bros. with an ex-POTUS does have a certain panache to it. I’d have to think about it.
Lewinski ain’t a feminist. She’s a verb.
I've always felt a great deal of sympathy for ML and the way she was treated by the media while Bill skated off unscathed.
Taking into consideration that a young vulnerable woman was suborned by the actual President, I am with you. How many other young women would have been so manipulated by this uncaring man? It seems that to keep the incident in the public eye is the worse for her.
I hardly know what course she should take. As a father of two daughters I have a different view from many.
Sometimes there is no damn justice.
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