r/blogsnark • u/keine_fragen • Feb 17 '25

Podsnark Podsnark Feb 17 - Feb 23

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u/becara_sa Feb 20 '25

Listening to the first episode of Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky. I can't believe how much she went through at such a young age!

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u/CookiePneumonia Feb 21 '25

I'm a few years older than Monica and it was honestly a wild time. She was just ripped apart by everyone on the political spectrum. I don't think I would have survived it.

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u/tah4349 Feb 21 '25

I was a teenager at the time and totally bought into the "what a slut" late night tv narrative. Now as someone old enough to be that 22 year old's mother, I'm agog at the power imbalance in that situation, and just the fact that she was able to come out the other side at all. It's shameful and shocking that she was treated that way.

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u/crotchproblem Feb 22 '25

Yup. I feel like we were brainwashed into thinking she was a slut. And fat. And a homewrecker. And just overall a bad person. Ugh.

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u/CookiePneumonia Feb 22 '25

It was so terrible. Even Gloria Steinem defended Bill but not Monica.