![]() ![]() "With Clinton and Lewinsky, the age gap doesn't seem as great as it should because Clinton seems younger than his years, and she seems older than hers," the article continued. ![]() In fact, at the time, most believed Monica to be older than she actually was. Perhaps that is because there is so much else swirling about the mix-the politics, the tapes, the rumors, the breathless speed at which each new development overtakes the one from the minute before." As one 1998 article written by The Baltimore Sun stated, "There is surprisingly little fury about the age difference. When the trials were occurring, her age was not a huge topic of debate. President Clinton was arguably the most powerful man in the world and at 49-years-old more than double her age. Why is Monica Lewinsky's age so important when we look back at how her story unfolded publicly?Īs a young 21-year-old, Monica's career had just started. Her newfound role involved handling letters from Congress and often transporting mail to the Oval Office. ![]() “A marketplace has emerged where shame is a commodity.” She pointed out the role of social media in publicly shaming people now, and creating a “culture of humiliation”.(Image credit: TIM SLOAN/AFP via Getty Images)īy December of 1995, Monica was moved into a paid intern position for the Office of Legislative Affairs. Lewinsky made it clear that “clickbait” stories are to her the equivalent of the Roman Colosseum, when Christians were thrown to the lions. One got “five million clicks, which is the population of the Republic and Malala’s story got the equivalent of the population of Longford.” She talked about the disparity in the “clicks” as she described it (without citing a particular source), between those received for a story about an internationally known celebrity whose nude pictures were leaked, and when Malala Yousafzai was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. She had done her homework on her Irish audience, beyond picking up on local dialect. You can insist on a different ending to your story.” It was time to stop and to take back my narrative. I have been asked the question a lot: ‘Why now, why did I stick my head up over the parapet again? Because it was time. “Today we call it cyber-bullying, slut-shaming and online harassment. “We have words now for what happened me then,” she said. It is only in recent years that Lewinsky has emerged from silence and actively become a public figure. “For people working in human resources, that really is your worst nightmare, right? Someone falling in love with the boss.”Ī knowing chuckle spread around the room. “I fell in love with my boss,” Lewinsky said. The conference was aimed at people who work in human resources. ![]() “Not a day goes by when I am not reminded of my mistake,” she said grimly. Bernard Lewinsky (A&E) Monicas sexual encounter with Clinton occurred when she was a 22-year-old intern at The White House in November 1995. The only hand left remaining in the air was hers. “Keep your hands raised if everyone else in the room knows about that mistake,” she said next. From what I could see, the entire room did. Lewinsky asked audience members who had made a mistake in their lives to raise their hands. Guest speaker Monica Lewinsky in conversation with Robert Mac Giolla Phádraig, founder of the Talent Summit Photograph: Bryan Brophy / 1IMAGE Photography “I was publicly stoned with gossip and innuendo. It was the support of her family, their “empathy and compassion” that cushioned her best from the “judgment” of the world. “My parents feared I would literally be humiliated to death.” Such was her sense of shame and humiliation at that time in 1998, that she told the audience her mother sat by her bed every night. And the mantra in my head was: ‘I just want to die’.” She talked about being “holed up” in a hotel room, with a dial-up modem, and reading the very personal things that had just been revealed about her life. ![]()
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