Why is it that you refuse to recognize the possibility that she was the victim in a coercive affair in which there was a vast disparity in power? I'm not saying I agree with that, but you appear to be blind to that possibility.
First: she's not, say, a single mother struggling to support her family, and so susceptible to threats from the boss. She lives in a spacious Watergate apartment; she can choose where, and for whom, she wants to work. No one threw her out of a job. No one harmed her 'career' in any way.
Let's add to this: her father has been a major supporter of the Dems, as are his friends, one of whom apparently arranged the White House internship. If Monica went overboard in her attentions to the Prez, well, he might wish to try to deal with it quietly.
When I was 21 I had a summer job in New York, which my father had fixed up for me. In the second week of June a new boss arrived: 29 years old, simultaneously full of himself and insecure. The first day, he invited me out to lunch. Okay, fine. Took me to a cafeteria, not cool, considering what he, as I'd then understood, had in mind. He explained that he and his wife had an "open marriage", and anyway she'd just had a gallbladder operation, and so wasn't really up to par, so why not? I am not as cruel as some here may think I am, and so I managed to contain what threatened to be hysterical laughter.
I told him I had a serious boyfriend (the best initial move; in this case it was true). Even so, every morning he asked me whether I'd reconsidered. Tiresome, but so what?
My point, from which I've perhaps strayed, is that I didn't really NEED the job. If he'd really driven me nuts I'd simply have left. Monica had no "need" to submit, unless it were her own. And as I've said a thousand times here, unless you're dealing with something close to a rapist, these things can be dealt with.
Janice |
