Monica Lewinski and her Humliation

Thoughts on Internet bullying and how it effects others often gets shuffled under the rug as no Big deal, but it does have a huge impact on social and societal behaviors.

Recently I as reading an article on how Monica Lewinsky dealt with taking the BLAME for her being the mistress of President Clinton, and she was ostracized as being the little slut who almost brought down a President.

Hillary even forgave Bill for her Emotionally neglecting her husband and gave him a hall pass for this indiscretion.

What people forgot is how it effected Monica.

But her notoriety has also repeatedly cost her job opportunities with non-profit organizations.

Any ‘abuse’ came in the aftermath, when I was made a scapegoat in order to protect his powerful position. …The Clinton administration, the special prosecutor’s minions, the political operatives on both sides of the aisle, and the media were able to brand me. And that brand stuck, in part because it was imbued with power.”

 Lewinsky says that she was impelled to reconsider her stance on speaking out after the 2010 suicide of Tyler Clementi, the Rutgers University freshman who was secretly captured on streaming Webcam kissing another man. She says she was moved to tears by the case, but that her mother was distraught, “replaying those weeks when she stayed by my bed, night after night, because I, too, was suicidal” in 1998.

After Clementi’s death, Lewinsky says, “my own suffering took on a different meaning. Perhaps by sharing my story, I reasoned, I might be able to help others in their darkest moments of humiliation.”

Lewinsky has indeed endured a nearly two-decade ordeal, in which she went from the giddy high of her involvement with the president to becoming “possibly the first person whose global humiliation was driven by the Internet.”

Even now we laugh as we who remember that ordeal find it funny that our President said he did not have sexual relations with Monica..

Forgoing her hurt, he should have stepped up and took responsibility for his own actions.

Now with that said, what has this world come to that we can hide behind a computer and hurt others?  Excessively attack and ruin another person for our own personal gain?  What do we really win?

Ladies talk about the men/women on the Boards that attack and we all choose not to see them for fear that they will indeed turn on us, out our names to family and friends, etc.

I wish one man/woman could answer what is the point?   how do you get satisfaction by hurting others.

Isn't it about time to stop “tiptoeing around peoples past and ruining other people’s futures?

Just ones woman's thoughts