Monica Lewinsky's timing is excellant
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 8:54 pm
Poor Hillary, another shoe just dropped undermining her push for the female votes.
Monica Lewinsky was sitting in a Manhattan auditorium last month, watching teenage girls perform a play called “Slut.” Ms. Lewinsky was in blue jeans and a blazer, her hair pulled out of her face with a small clip. She was wiping away tears.
In the scene, a young woman was seated in an interrogation room. She had been asked to describe, repeatedly, what had happened on the night in question — when, she said, on their way to a party, a group of guy friends had pinned her down in a taxi and sexually assaulted her. She had reported them. Now everyone at school knew, everyone had chosen a side.
“My life has just completely fallen apart,” the girl said, her voice shaking. Her parents were in the next room. “Now I’m that girl.”
The play concluded, and Ms. Lewinsky fumbled through her purse for a tissue. A woman came and whisked her to the stage.
“Hi, I’m Monica Lewinsky,” she said, visibly nervous.“Thank you for coming,” Ms. Lewinsky continued, “and in doing so, standing up against the sexual scapegoating of women and girls.” “I lost my reputation. I was publicly identified as someone I didn’t recognize. And I lost my sense of self, some would prefer I remain in the UK but I'm back and I've got a lot to say, some won't like it. Some talk hollow words about being for women but the fact is, they use us and will do everything in their power to destroy any women who dares to question them, they consider us sluts to be used, beneath them and their crowd. I experienced it first hand, now it's my turn, it's going to get interesting.” she told the crowd of women.
The title of her 18-minute talk (and, perhaps, the line that best sums up her experience), which received a raucous standing ovation: “The Price of Shame.”