Can I say “We accept the love we think we deserve” or would that be, like, way harsh, Tai?

I didn’t know who he was – never seen SATC except for that one time when the finale was on syndication and I thought I’d check it out for the sake of cultural literacy and it was SOOO TEDIOUS – so I typed his name into my browser and this is what I got:

“Mars Inc. [...] announced today that it’s spending $1 billion on sustainability initiatives, and not just because it will keep what’s left of the planet from shriveling into a wizened little husk. It’s because it turns out sustainability is lucrative as fuck.”

Hmm... “Don’t want to doxx [your]self”? So you’re saying you work with Mars, or are otherwise in a position to be familiar with their various corporate initiatives? Since you mentioned “good labor and procurement practices,” I bet some of my fellow Jezzies would like to know what you can tell us about their apparent…

On the other hand, she now has to walk around hearing people reference that dang blue dress for the rest of her life. :/

“If there is any deserving ‘poster boy’ for the #MeToo movement, it’s...”

“Who, me?”

Whew! Internet commenting can sometimes turn into a grueling written communications drill, eh? It should be a training exercise for publicists.

“You are either arguing it colored her perceptions so that Bill Clinton had the moral obligation to deny her as she couldn’t make a rational, informed decision or that he coerced her.”

I don’t disagree. I know Bill was already on his way up, but I think Hillary strengthened him substantially and took him to the next level. Like, he was always going to be Somebody, but he wasn’t going to be President Clinton. I don’t think he really boosted her game the way she boosted his, but he was what she…

Aw man, and I had been admiring the heck out of you!

It’s a good thing you hadn’t known, then, because if you’d consumed an amount of alcohol proportional to the chaos around us all, you’d have been desperately in need of a new liver. You stopped just in time!

Well, in her case, I’m not sure there’s a way for him to apologize without confessing. I mean, if he would confess, that would be great, but it woudn’t be nearly as easy as simply expressing some sympathy for Monica’s plight.

I’m not denying her sexual agency; I’m questioning the supposed severity of her wrongdoing. Yes, she had an affair with a man who should not have been involved with her for multiple reasons, but he was responsible for his own choices. She chose to participate in and enable his wrongdoing, but she was not the one who…

I don’t really see it as a “rehashing,” though, in the sense that he has never really addressed the idea that his wrongdoing was beyond the scope of adultery and unseemly presidential behavior. I get why it’s a touchy subject for him, and I’m sure Hillary would love to never hear about any of it Ever Again, but it’s…

It’s. So. Easy.

If you could get through all that while being newly sober, you must be some kind of sobriety superhero. That’s, like, Ned Stark levels of fortitude. :P

He wasn’t a married “older guy”; he was the freaking POTUS, and he was her boss, and she was a 22-year-old intern. So what if she was a non-virgin who was eager to have sex with him? What’s your point, that she was a slutty slutty whore who got what was coming to her? Yeah, she did something wrong, and it was a very…

I won’t dignify the rest of this with a response, but Hillary didn’t ride on Bill’s coattails; he tethered his coattails to her and she carried him to (and through) the presidency. I’m not saying he was nothing more than a front for her, but he had her to thank for everything he ever achieved.

If he wasn’t going to toe the line, he could at least get somewhere in its vicinity. He could at least pretend to have a little humility, a little self-awareness, a little concern for what harm he may have done to That Woman, Miss Lewinsky.