A sk any child of the s, and she remembers β vividly β when she first heard about the Monica Lewinsky scandal as well as the particular sex acts involved.
I was 16, perched with a group of friends in the hallway of my high school, devouring the contents of the Starr report like a trashy romance novel.
He did what with a cigar?! None of us was old enough to truly comprehend the complexities β or power dynamics β of a year-old intern fellating the President of the United States.
What kind of woman flashes her thong at the President, anyway? Long before slut-shaming was a term, Monica Lewinsky was its original target. My teenage friends and I were among her critics, though the rest of the country, too, seemed to be acting like horny misogynist teens.
The story was blasted out on Drudge. The young woman is permanently cast as a semen-smeared laughingstock. Nearly two decades later, Lewinsky is still a punch line and a sly euphemism for oral sex.
