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she wasn’t a teenager, she was an adult woman

But Tripp's the one who interacted with Monica at the time and got the impression of a hopelessly infatuated young girl who was manipulated by her boss. As she says:

TRIPP: I mean, how it was presented to the country initially is how it continues to be referred to today, which is an affair, the Lewinsky affair. But by virtue of using that word, one assumes it was in some way an actual relationship of sorts—romantic, physical, whatever, it was a relationship—which couldn’t be farther from the truth. What it was was a series of encounters to address a physical need, a use of a young girl, and then the sort of cold hard dismissal of her on any human level.

Clinton's argument to the grand jury that because he wasn't trying to give her pleasure, he didn't consider it "sexual relations," and thus that he hadn't perjured himself when he denied having sexual relations, discussed in the latest episode backs up Tripp's portrayal. This of course was partially him trying to save himself but the descriptions of the sexual encounters seem to be in line with it all.

One hopes that if you teleported this entire story to 2018 that everyone would have more discretion and more respect for Monica, though, certainly, but I don't know if the current Kavanaugh/Ford story gives any encouragement to that hope.

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