Monica Lewinsky - TED talk

[bucky88]

Monica Lewinsky speaks out for a new societal norm against public shaming. She is passionate and well spoken. Plus, at 41 years of age she is hotter now than she was at 22 in the White House. May be she should run for president instead of Hilary.

B88

 

[Ridgeman08]

Incredibly well spoken. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Ironhead]

Speaking of which, I would love a "Lewinsky". :wink:

 

[TESLAMotors]

Ballsy.

 

[Marla]

Very apropos for today's cyber climate. Makes one think about how the public joins bandwagons of shaming and humiliating at the expense of the individual. If cars stop on the highway to gawk at an accident, imagine what the millions of people do on the internet when something scandalous occurs.

 

[Nickelodeon]

I despise the Republicans but I will not forget when the entire Clinton Presidential branch went after Monica, first for lying and then when the famous blue dress provided proof, they turned to shaming.

 

[Garrett]

I love her and admire her, and this just reinforces it.

She was used as a pawn by both parties. Shamed. Endless jokes. Whispers and heads turning everywhere she went. People calling her ugly (and I always thought she was attractive, here she is downright beautiful at 41). I do not think many people could survive what she did, and still hold their head up. She is one hell of a woman.

 

[HobbyHorse]

Certainly agree that she has been the unfair butt of jokes.

Is that a little stain on her blue outfit?

 

[Garrett]

Certainly agree that she has been the unfair butt of jokes.

Is that a little stain on her blue outfit?

You should really listen to her talk. Perhaps then you would not say anything so utterly lacking in class.

 

[HobbyHorse]

Will do so, tho it doesn't want to play on my current machine.

In the meantime give your sacrosanct holier-than-thou-ness a little rest. It must be exhausting!

 

[Aardvark154]

Monica Lewinsky speaks out for a new societal norm against public shaming. She is passionate and well spoken. Plus, at 41 years of age she is hotter now than she was at 22 in the White House. May be she should run for president instead of Hilary.

Certainly she has greater integrity than Hilary, who was one of the leading people in the shame campaign (although that is understandable).

 

[ValeriaBeleza]

Her talk is reminiscent of 'clicking on gossip' as a business and what being private really means with technology now enabling people have media access in a flash and how making mistakes is part of human nature but it's not fair when private is made 'public without c‎onsent, public without context, public without passion" it's tragic that often in an ode to respecting free speech ‎we will never be immune to people forming opinions and talking in ways that hurt. I do share her concern when she says people, specially young people, are affected by cyber bullying. I'm unsure what the OP meant with his comments, but I'm sure that her agenda is to bring awareness of this issue, and by framing the problem from her past experience. I hope we all speak 'with compassion, intention and not for attention'

 

[GPIDEAL]

Her talk is reminiscent of 'clicking on gossip' as a business and what being private really means with technology now enabling people have media access in a flash and how making mistakes is part of human nature but it's not fair when private is made 'public without c‎onsent, public without context, public without passion" it's tragic that often in an ode to respecting free speech ‎we will never be immune to people forming opinions and talking in ways that hurt. I do share her concern when she says people, specially young people, are affected by cyber bullying. I'm unsure what the OP meant with his comments, but I'm sure that her agenda is to bring awareness of this issue, and by framing the problem from her past experience. I hope we all speak 'with compassion, intention and not for attention'

She has definitely found a market niche for the speaking-engagement business, but that's good ol' American capitalism. I don't fault her for that too. I imagine it was hard for her to make a career in the early stages of her life after the scandal. This is something positive that she can do (other than write a book) to empower others or warn of mistakes.

(Personally, I made a mistake years ago along similar lines, but it didn't involve my boss although it was related to the workplace).

 

[Garrett]

Will do so, tho it doesn't want to play on my current machine.

In the meantime give your sacrosanct holier-than-thou-ness a little rest. It must be exhausting!

You know, there are two ways to react when you do something classless. You can simply grow a pair and admit it, or you can dig in further. The fact you choose to dig in further, for a joke that has zero wit or creativity, simply makes it sadder. Given her emotional plea to stop public shaming, with examples of people who have *died* over it, calling your comments "classless" is being kind.

It is a topic very relevant to this board, given providers have been shamed once their profession has been made public. Thanks to bucky88 for posting it.

 

[GPIDEAL]

You know, there are two ways to react when you do something classless. You can simply grow a pair and admit it, or you can dig in further. The fact you choose to dig in further, for a joke that has zero wit or creativity, simply makes it sadder. Given her emotional plea to stop public shaming, with examples of people who have *died* over it, calling your comments "classless" is being kind.

It is a topic very relevant to this board, given providers have been shamed once their profession has been made public. Thanks to bucky88 for posting it.

Well said.

 

[Born2Star]

I'm sorry, she's probably well spoken, the topics are good and relevant, but there's really only one reason why she's coming out actively now...

 

[bucky88]

I'm sorry, she's probably well spoken, the topics are good and relevant, but there's really only one reason why she's coming out actively now...

If you think about it, she could have cashed in on her notoriety in so many different ways over the years, but chose not to. She could have become a side show failure like Tonya Harding. More power to her for now using that notoriety to effect positive change and to reclaim her identity.

B88

 

[oil&gas]

I wish I could ask those brainless insensitive people calling
Lewinsky ugly this question: "Would you decline a BJ offer
from her?" I for one would unzip in a nanosecond at the
thought of getting head from the gal who is possibly the
only person who ever performed oral sex in the White House
for the world's most powerful person. I was going to feel
like a king.

 

[buttercup]

I wish I could ask those brainless insensitive people calling
Lewinsky ugly this question: "Would you decline a BJ offer
from her?" I for one would unzip in a nanosecond at the
thought of getting head from the gal who is possibly the
only person who ever performed oral sex in the White House
for the world's most powerful person. I was going to feel
like a king.

This has to be the most crass, clueless, crude, brainless post in this whole website -- and the best reason why the world needs ML to do what she's doing.

 

[Yoga Face]

She went to the white house as an intern with the idea being to "earn my presidential kneepads"

She did it so in one sense she deserves a lot of credit


She should have kept her big mouth shut (after the BJ)

She does not have my respect and I doubt she wrote her TED speech