• phoneymouse@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Okay, but she was a freaking intern and he was the president. It’s an inappropriate professional relationship. You get fired for pulling something like that at most companies simply because there is a reporting relationship.

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      5 months ago

      Sure. Inappropriate, a firing offense, etc. All true. She even describes the treatment she received after it came out as “abuse”. All valid.

      Still consensual. Still not someone else’s place to talk about whether it was her decision or not; it was, and she has said so.

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          5 months ago

          When a power imbalance that vast is concerned consent doesn’t exist.

          At the time, sure. However, over a decade after the fact:

          Maintaining that her affair with Clinton was one between two consenting adults…

          So if the power imbalance was why she consented, you’d think she’d set the record straight and say she was pressured or forced into it despite saying yes at the time. But she didn’t. Ergo, she consented and your argument is invalid.