• hOrni@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    Him being her boss is the scandal part. It’s about power imbalance. There is no such thing as “consent” in this situation.

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      22 hours ago

      Combine that with the fact that someone commiting adultery should be disqualifying for them becoming president.

      Look, I get that all the social norms have been completely ground to dust, but character does in fact matter. We should want a good person who refuses to cheat on their wife as a leader.

      Reducing this to just a fun fling because you like the guy is the same thing the hypocrites who support Trump and all of his scandals do.

      If he’s willing to betray his wife for a quicky from an intern, why would I trust him with anything else? For the person who’s leading the entire nation the bar should be higher.

      Also not to mention that he was 49 and she was 22. If this was anyone less “likeable” than Bill we’d all be calling him an absolute creep. He was pushing 50, and she could barely drink. And he was her boss.

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      13 hours ago

      Partially. It was really “Republicans went digging for some dirt and he lied about fucking his secretary during a deposition, so let’s fuck him up over it”. It then became about bashing Monica cause misogyny.