Lewinsky: Feminism Failed Me

Monica Lewinsky’s tell-all in Vanity Fair has hit newsstands and she is making it clear that she does not identify as a a feminist, or at least “Feminist, capital F.” Lewinsky writes that although she is grateful for the movement, her “experience being passed around like gender-politics cocktail food” has disenchanted her. She also expresses her disappointment that the “movement's leaders failed in articulating a position that was not essentially anti-woman during the witch hunt of 1998.” She also criticizes Hillary Clinton’s reaction to the affair, writing, “I find her impulse to blame the Woman — not only me, but herself — troubling.”