On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 7:25 AM, Bob Jersey <[email protected]> wrote:
> > This Deadline piece by Lisa D > <http://deadline.com/2015/04/monica-lewinsky-the-view-barbara-walters-clinton-video-1201402688/> > (link) noted that Lewinsky was invited to *The View* around the time she > gave the TED Talk, leading to "speculation" that the network could be > courting her as a cohost (but also noting that doing so might complicate > their ability to access Mrs Clinton down the road), and brought up her 1999 > *20/20* interview with Walters (and the unintendedly-funny ads that > accompanied it!) > > Thinking back, the most odious part of her TED Talk was when she did a humble-brag about a guy in his 20s flirting with her, and some in the crowd reacted favorably, ooing and awing and a smattering of claps, evidence of a double-standard that has always annoyed me. When an older guy dates a younger woman, the guy is a cradle robber and the girl is a gold digger. When an older woman dates a younger man, it is cheers and fist-bumps and high-fives for all involved. Even taken to the extreme, when you see on the news that a male teacher has seduced a female student, he is scum and the girl is a victim. But when a female teacher does the same to a male student, it is a subject of more than a few 1980s coming-of-age comedies, and the male student is virtually a hero. As a former teacher, I knew I always had to keep the door to my classroom wide open if I had one or more female students in the room with me. And on the first day of each school year, I had to instruct all students to keep physical distance... little kids in particular still like to hug their teachers, but a male teacher cannot allow it, simply because the specter of a rumor of a hint of anything that could even be perceived as improper is enough to ruin a guy. And yet imagine the TED Talk the 20-something guy who flirted with 40-something Monica Lewinsky could have given had he been more successful. -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
