Monica Lewinsky’s name is again all over the internet due an essay she has written that is to appear in the new issue of Vanity Fair. In the article she details a very difficult sixteen years in the time since her name became a household word.

Most quoted on the internet is the following passage that appears in the essay, "Sure, my boss [Bill Clinton] took advantage of me, but I will always remain firm on this point: it was a consensual relationship.” She goes on to admit that, at 22 when the affair occurred, she was too young to understand the real life consequences of the affair.

Ms. Lewinsky writes that even though she graduated from the London School of Economics with a Masters Degree, she has had significant difficulties securing a job, with many employers citing her “past” as the reason for their refusal to hire her. Bill Clinton, on the other hand, currently enjoys extreme popularity and Hillary Clinton clearly achieved great political success in the years following the scandal.

Has history been fair to Ms. Lewinsky? Her loudest complaint appears to be with so-called feminists who she feels abandoned her during the scandal in favor of potential approval and, thus, access to the White House. And why was that? She was a much younger woman involved in a sexual affair with a much older man who held power over her and whom, she does admit, took advantage of her. Doesn’t that make her a victim? And if so, why wasn’t she treated as one? What was different about her story?