I used to be a huge Hillary Clinton supporter.  I was devastated when she didn’t get the nomination for president in 2008.  Literally crushed.  I swore I would move heaven and earth to get her elected in 2016.  However, I wish she would have stood up for Monica Lewinsky.  How shabbily Monica Lewinsky was treated.  Not only by the Clintons but by the so-called champions of the women’s movement.  Up until recently I gave Hillary Clinton a lot of credit for standing by her man and keeping her family together. The wounded victim that she was rising above it all, because she was a good woman who wanted to keep her marriage and family intact. However, now, almost 20 years to the day after the story broke, I think her decision to stay while hers alone to make is troubling. Monica Lewinsky was a young woman, just out of college. Much younger than Hillary’s daughter is today. Instead of the future she may have hoped for, Monica Lewinsky has instead worn a scarlet A around her neck for two decades.  I used to think that Mrs. Clinton’s staying gave her quiet dignity and earned her my respect.  I now view her staying in a less complimentary light. Her decision to stay with her husband Bill Clinton was her decision to make and her business not mine. However, her failure to speak out for other daughters of the world — her failure to express her disgust about how abhorrent Bill Clinton’s treatment of Ms. Lewinsky was — is our business. Other so-called icons of the women’s empowerment movement should also have come to the aid of this young woman. Instead of empathy and compassion these icons of women’s equality showed her contempt and mockery.  How easily they threw her under the bus.  This article on Monica Lewinsky in Vanity Fair sheds the light on actions that with the passage of time are really troubling. Will the future be more kind to Ms. Lewinsky? I hope so. Someone should have had this young woman’s back. http://www.vanityfair.com/society/2014/06/monica-lewinsky-humiliation-culture