My lingering anger about the harassing sexual abuser Bill Clinton may finally get some resolution. For years my anger at the hypocrisy of defending his disgusting behavior, ie taking advantage of a young woman who thought the most powerful man on earth might really be in love with her, has been brushed off by friends.  As I said at a dinner party recently where EVERYONE was mentioned except him: everyone who knows me, knows I am a “middle of the roader.” I don’t hate his politics or what the Democrats might stand for.  Both parties stand for some good and some bad.

In those past conversation I was told “I get it, you can’t get past that” but “he did so much good.”   Absolutely correct.  I can’t get past it. What I particularly can’t get past is all the powerful WOMEN who supported him and somehow Monica became a silly little girl who should have known better.

It is the same thing in Hollywood.  I was told the women didn’t do anything about the “open secret” because women have so little power in Hollywood   Really? Meryl Streep has little power in Hollywood? Angelina Jolie has little power in Hollywood? Tatum O’neal has little power in Hollywood?

Power. Yes, it is always about power. Power of men over women who desperately need a job.  Power lust of women who want to be president of the US.  Excuses that your powerful cause is greater than the destroyed psyche if not the life of a woman who has been groped and harassed and then disbelieved.

Who among us cannot seriously imagine what is was like for Monica Lewinsky (not to mention all the other women who came forward and were called “Republican plants”) to hear the man she thought she fell in love with say on national TV “I did not have sex with that woman.”  To hear him not even have the decency to call her by her name   To call her “that woman.”  Just a throwaway: 20 minutes of action.  Monica says she was a willing participant.  It doesn’t matter that she thought she was in love and wanted to do what they did.  He was a man of power. He should not have taken advantage of her youth and naïveté in that way.  That she doesn’t see it that way is irrelevant.

It is time to name him with all the others. Bill Clinton. Serial harasser. Democrats, Republicans, construction workers, studio execs, priests and Presidents of the United States of America.  We women aren’t backing down on it this time and I implore my friends on both left and right to say “no” to this behavior take out the pitchforks and torches regardless of what other good the perpetrators might do.  Many good men do good things without thinking women are their personal playthings or porn magazines (do these guys really make women stand there while they beat off? Who thinks that is ok?  Oh well, it’s not “sex” I guess. Bill made that distinction clear.)

And yes, I get the same want-to-throw-up feeling in my stomach when I look at Trump as I do when I look at Clinton. They both make me sick.

Rant will never be over.