Lol, no you are 100% correct, total brain fart on my part, and if there’s an accidental joke in there I wouldn’t be clever enough to make it. Crazy thing is I just saw A Christmas Carol live not two and a half months ago (at the American Shakespear Center of course....) and read it to our daughter several times before…

are there no prisons? are there no workhouses?

I agree with you that Monica Lewinsky is responsible for the sex she had. I think that the idea that a 22 year old can’t consent to sleep with a 50 year old is... ridiculous. Even if the 50 year old is the most powerful man on the planet. A 22 year old is not a child. BUT, the bottom line is that she wasn’t an elected…

Most people feel/felt this way, all you have to do is look at the hurr durr she was an adult- like, don’t deny her agency- you can TOTALLY consent to fucking your boss idiocy that has gone on in these comments today. Misogyny is a hell of an excuse and internalized misogyny is a hell of a drug. I don’t care if Monica…

So he manipulated her into flirting and initiating contact? He coerced her into her own desire?

I was a White House intern the semester before Monica, and as a 4th generation Democrat I had definitely drunk the Clinton Kool-Aid. I blamed her, and the rest of the GOP-scandal factory in equal measure when the media circus started. . .then, I read a description of the first time they were alone. It was presented as…

If he didn’t know “way way back in the ancient 90s” it was wrong he would have admitted it. But he worked very dilligently and spent lots of money and political capital to cover up what he did and then to dismiss her. I am sorry, but I can’t accept that “in prehistoric times we didn’t know right from wrong.

“And yet what did the “something” mean in this instance, given the power dynamics, his position, and my age? Was the “something” just about crossing a line of sexual (and later emotional) intimacy? (An intimacy I wanted—with a 22-year-old’s limited understanding of the consequences.) He was my boss. He was the most…

I was around then. Involved in Democratic Party politics.

I bragged about dating my rapist.

Can we drop the use of ‘slut’ already? Good god it’s 2018. If you sleep through an entire Major League Baseball team you should still not be called a slut. This word does no one good. Not the women/men it is applied to, nor the shamers. All the word is meant to do is to control the action of others in a very negative,…

I’m having a hard time with this, I have to admit. Lewinsky did not deserve to be a media punching bag. She did not deserve to experience any part of the horrible circus we all witnessed. The Starr investigation is so vivid in my mind. I remember feeling so so sorry for her and I still do. What kind of life has this…

So she acted like an idiot when she was younger. She’s already paid a million times over for it.

Both she and Clinton acted irresponsibly and stupidly. It’s just that she was an intern in her 20s and he was the goddamn president.

True, however that really just shows Bill’s weakness. He was in a position of power. If an intern is being inappropriate you have them canned, not give you felatio at work. Just because she was being a terrible person does not mean she deserved all of this, it does not mean she wasn’t coerced in the power dynamic.

The gasps were because the hypocrisy of CPAC engaging in affirmative action was too much for their brains to handle.

Michael Steele was terrible as RNC Chairman and it had nothing to do with his race.

I only recently experienced Ethopian food for the first time. That is some FILLING vegetarian food, man!

Jollof and Injera should just be on every menu, always. Now I want some jollof.