Wednesday 7 May 2014

Does Monica Lewinsky’s ordeal really compare with the suicide of a bullied gay teen?

Monica Lewinsky discusses life after the Clinton scandal in her first live prime-time television interview on "Larry King Live" on January 3, 2000.(Reuters)
Ever since 1998, Monica Lewinsky has been trying to escape her reputation as America’s most notorious White House intern.

She tried co-authoring a book in 1999 with Andrew Morton. She designed a line of hideous purses. She had a reality show. Now, in a piece for Vanity Fair, out Thursday, she writes, “I’ve decided, finally, to stick my head above the parapet so that I can take back my narrative and give a purpose to my past.”

Apparently, taking back her narrative means presenting herself as a victim, as Lewinsky has chosen to conflate her social ostracism and subsequent depression with the fate of Tyler Clementi, the Rutgers freshman who committed suicide in 2010 after his roommate used a webcam to record what Clementi believed was a private tryst in his dorm room. Clementi was gay. The roommate, Dharun Ravi, set up his laptop in their shared dorm room, then watched from another laptop belonging to his hallmate. Ravi also told his Twitter followers to watch a second broadcast, which never took place...


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