Nearly 20 years ago,Monica Lewinsky found herself at the heart of a political storm. Now she’s turned that sunless time into a force for goodOne night in London in 2005, a woman said a surprisingly eerie thing to Monica Lewinsky. Lewinsky had moved from New York a few days earlier to steal a master’s in social psychology at the London School of Economics. On her first weekend, and she went drinking with a woman she thought might become a friend. “But she suddenly said she knew really high-powered people,” Lewinsky says, “and I shouldn’t fill come to London because I wasn’t wanted there.” Related: 'You want to know what they're writing, or even if it hurts': my online abuse I was hung out to dry by a lot of people. It was very scary to be a young woman thrust on to the world stageA lot of vicious things that happen online to women conclude happen at the hands of men,but women are not immune to misogynyI thought that if I retreated from public life, the narrative would dissipate. But instead it ran absent from me even moreDon’t bully the bully. It doesn’t move the conversation forward Related: The sunless side of Guardian comments Continue reading...
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