Politico reports, and here's her new piece:
"The Online Rebuttal Is the New Black." If I were writing headlines over at Vanity Fair, I'd avoid using the word "rebuttal" for a piece about a butt. And if I were Monica Lewinsky,
a woman notorious for calling attention to her butt by displaying her thong underpants to the President of the United States, I would not choose to make my point about the use of social media to fight back against public humiliation by focusing on a 14-year-old girl making a show of her butt.
Last line of Monica's piece:
In Carleigh’s case, her body-positive photo went viral. An online rebuttal . . . in all meanings. Sounds good to me.
Oh! So it wasn't just the headline writer stumbling onto a pun. Monica punned on purpose. I don't think a 14-year-old girl is well served by having Monica Lewinsky talking about her ass.
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I like on-film rebuttals better than online.
Think of Marcia Gay Harden and Gabe Byrne in Miller's Crossing.
"Intimidating helpless women is what I do." - Tom Reagan
"Well then find one and intimidate her." - Verna Bernbaum
The comments to Lewinski's article are interesting. Is it fair to ask "who did Monica blow to get this job?"
Lots of slut-shaming happening on Althouse's part. She insists that Vanity Fair and society only view Monica through the prism of 1998 and before and that there is no way the former intern can contribute anything of value based on her experience and development since then.
That's an out-of-touch and incredibly boring way to look at things.
Vanity Fair, obviously, is hedging their bets in case Hill will run - the problem:
Monica's always over-exposed,...
For Crack, "the new black" conflated with fat butts, racist. reparations. slavery.
"So it wasn't just the headline writer stumbling onto a pun."
No stumbling here, the headline writer lifted 'Online Rebuttal' from the title of an NPR segment referenced in the piece.
"I was listening to NPR’s All Things Considered. One segment of the show addressed a trend: 'The Rise of the Online Rebuttal.'"
No one speaks more effectively to the true inner spirit of east coast white jewish female elites than crack.
Butt isn't a big association.
I'd avoid cigars and dresses.
Monica is just blowin' in the wind.
I've read that women who doggedly continue to attack another woman long after any reasonable cause often do so out of jealousy tinged with the regret of opportunities missed.
Some psychologists term it the 'Maureen Dowd complex'...
But, a 14 year-old girl can be well served by Monica Lewinsky writing approvingly of her assertion of her own agency.
Ms. Lewinsky plainly wishes (and who can blame her) that online rebuttals had been available in 1998, thinking back on all the incisive points she would have made, and still smarts from the felt loss of her own agency.
It's an interesting enough topic to make "let's talk about thongs, instead" seem like the lazy way out.
Heyooyeh said...
Lots of slut-shaming happening on Althouse's part.
Is there? The writer Lewinsky is known only because of her disreputible acts. Those acts happened to involve sexual reations (with a married man), so her making sexual puns is obviously germane, but the "shaming" if any isn't necessarily due to sex. Is having an affair with a married person (without the consent of their marriage partner), lying about that affair, taking favors from the cronies of your lover, etc.--is all of that OK now, or can people still view that behavior with displeasure and disapproval? Is it "shaming" to point that out? If so is shame not exactly the corrrect response?!
What exactly is a starstruck girl in her early twenties supposed to do when her boss is the leader of the free world, and wants to get it on?
Besides, we know what happened to the women who said no. Disreputable acts indeed.
Althouse basically means to say that Lewinsky and the 14-yr-old are sluts who have nothing to offer, because, essentially, they're shameful sluts. Slut-shaming.
Monica clearly belongs in the mainstream media. She did the same thing for the man who was then President that the mainstream media does every day for the man who is now the President.
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"I don't think a 14-year-old girl is well served by having Monica Lewinsky talking about her ass."
Normally, I would agree. But in this case, it looks as if a bunch of other people were talking about her ass already, and she decided that rather than allow herself to be bullied by a mob of yahoos, she would make a public point of being comfortable in her own skin.
You want an inappropriate butt shot?
Try this one (she's been dubbed Sanitary Napkin Girl). It is so wrong, in so many ways, it cannot be quantified.
Peter
Saint Croix, I applaud you. (and I really liked that film, too)
thanks, Betamax! I could not resist.
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