So, how should we commemorate the day?

[yesthattom]

Wednesday (I'm told) is the 5th anniversary of Bill Clinton saying, "I did not sleep with that woman." I'm not sure how to celebrate.... or mourn.

On one hand, I completely support Bill Clinton. I campaigned for him, twice. While I don't think he was very effective, I support him a hell of a lot more than da other guy. I think what the Republicans did to him was a travesty of justice. On the other hand, he handled it badly. On the other, other hand, he handled it really well if you consider that he did complete all 8 years in office.

I have to imagine that Poly people of the world, if we had been politically organized 5 years ago, could have made this the watershed event that put poly on the map. We could have taken the big leap and "come out of the closet", embraced him, and used it to publicize that poly exists, is normal, and usually doesn't go by the name "poly" but its time people woke up and recognized how unbelievably common it is. We would have made statements to the press like, "My wife and I have a similar situation and we want the Clintons to know that the poly community is ready for them, if they're ready for us."

Obviously, we weren't and neither were they.

So, how should we commemorate the day?

Comments

[beowabbit]

Hmmm. Much though I appreciate Clinton's presidency, I'm not interested in claiming his personal life as poly territory. I have no idea what arrangement if any he has with Hillary, although I'm sure she's not naïve and I suspect there's at least tacit consent there. However, Bill Clinton was the President of the United States, arguably the most powerful person in the world, and Monica Lewinsky was a 21-year-old or so intern. That looks to me like an exploitative relationship and an abuse of power. (And yes, it's probably par for the course among people in those sorts of positions of power, but that doesn't mean I want to celebrate or "reclaim" it.)