Monica Lewinsky
Monica Lewinsky
Monica Samille Lewinskyis an American activist, television personality, fashion designer, and former White House intern with whom President Bill Clinton admitted to having had what he called an "inappropriate relationship" while she worked at the White House in 1995 and 1996. The affair and its repercussions, which included Clinton's impeachment, became known as the Lewinsky scandal...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth23 July 1973
CitySan Francisco, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Public humiliation is a commodity and shame is an industry,
And understandably so, that when you're in legal jeopardy, you really cannot put yourself in a position to open yourself up to the media.
Anyone who is suffering from shame and public humiliation needs to know one thing: You can survive it...you can insist on a different ending to your story. Have compassion for yourself. We all deserve compassion, and to live both online and off in a more compassionate world.
The jokes that take my last name and equate them to a sex act ... is a really cruel thing to do.
There is a very personal price to public humiliation, and the growth of the Internet has jacked up that price.
Public shaming is a blood sport that has to stop.
I'm probably the only person over 40 who does not want to be 22 again.
He ended it. He just said he didn't - he - well, what he said was that he didn't feel it was right, and you know, I mean that's - because he ended it, he'd probably have to be the one to answer that.
He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.
But, clearly to me, what I've come to see is that that happened because I didn't have enough feelings of self-worth. So that I didn't feel that... I was worthy of being number one to a man.
As far as our culture of humiliation goes, what we need is a revolution. Public shaming as a blood sport has to stop.
I lost my public self, or had it stolenIn a way, it was a form of identity theft.
Building a more compassionate society is going to be a bilateral exercise between individuals and the brands that represent their aspirations, their values and their truths. People make brands. If people are compassionate, brands will be compassionate in return.
The more shame, the more clicks; the more clicks, the more advertising dollars.