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hats off to her. she suffered so much
I think so.
Monica Lewinsky, born July 23, 1973, San Francisco, California, U.S is an American activist, public speaker, and writer, who, while a White House intern in 1995–96, had a sexual relationship with President Bill Clinton that became a scandal. She turned 48 today.
In 2015, she gave a TED talk about being the object of the first great internet shaming:
“Overnight, I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one worldwide. Granted, it was before social media, but people could still comment online, email stories, and, of course, email cruel jokes. I was branded as a tramp, tart, slut, whore, bimbo, and, of course, ‘that woman’. It was easy to forget that ‘that woman’ was dimensional, had a soul, and was once unbroken.”
Some of what he had said gets taught in schools alongside Nathaniel Hawthorn’s The Scarlet Letter.
"I can think of nobody I’d rather talk to about the minutiae of online bullying – who does it and why, the turmoil it can spark, and how to make things better."
A bit of her growing up days will be in order. In a report under headline
Monica Lewinsky, the shame sticks to you like a Tar, Jon Ronson wrote in Guardian...
Lewinsky grew up in Beverly Hills. Her father was an oncologist, her mother an author (she wrote the biography The Private Lives Of The Three Tenors). She had weight issues as a teenager. Beverly Hills is a bad place to grow up with weight issues. “I was very sensitive, so I couldn’t take a joke,” she says. “I remember sitting on my parents’ bed and them practising with me how to take a joke, how to not cry. I remember one very specific day in the playground when a group of girls had concocted some game. They’d say a number and it would mean something – run up and push me, or make a face at me, or say something stupid. “Those memories inform a lot of who we become. They contributed to me not having a strong sense of self. Look. I could sit and cry all day about kids being afraid to go to school."