httpss://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61dCo8BSFlc
Infamous White House intern-turned-cyberbullying activist Monica Lewinsky compares her years of public shaming to “a skinning of sorts.”
Lewinsky, now 42, has emerged as a passionate anti-bullying advocate almost two decades after her sex scandal with former President Bill Clinton dragged her through headlines and made her the butt of every oral sex joke.
In the Guardian interview, appropriately conducted by “So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed” author Jon Ronson, Lewinsky compared the act of bullying to cutting.
“People who cut are trying to localise their pain. I think with bullying, people are suffering for myriad reasons and are projecting it. Instead of cutting themselves, they’re cutting someone else.”
“I think some young people don’t see suicide as an ending, but as a reset,” she said.
“Women are not immune to misogyny,” Lewinsky said.
Lewinsky declined in the interview to comment on loudmouthed mogul Donald Trump’s remark that she’d be “Fair game” in his campaign against Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton – but did show off her new line of anti-bullying emojis and GIFs.