20160617 (male privilege)

When Bill Clinton was getting

Blowjobs under his desk from

A naive but adult intern was the 

Country wrong to accuse him

Of impeachable actions? Or did

It make no difference whatsoever?

Feminists could line up on either

Side of the issue. Some could say

Ms. Lewinsky was of age and 

Sufficiently independent to use

Her abilities as she wished—to 

Have power (of a sort) over a 

Man whose fingers (when they 

Were not otherwise engaged)

Might have been on the doomsday

Button. Or on the other side of

The issue, was Ms. Lewinsky,

Despite her majority, a victim 

Of sexual harassment of an order

Known only among men of such

Enormous power into whose

Trust these airheaded nymphets

Are gleefully given with parental

Approval? Shouldn’t "B-J" Clinton

Have not only been looking after

His own wayward behavior so as

Not to insult the office or the 

People, but also the behavior of

Those innocents in his charge,

Rather than using the power of

The presidency to abuse a young

Woman like a Kleenex or a

Cigar tray? What does such

“Personal” (i.e., sexual) morality

Have to do with his ability to 

Govern? I think a lot. I thought

A lot then, even more so now,

Especially in the light of the

Feminist outlook, the recognition

That “men” (the old boy network)

Have been getting away unscathed

For years for the way they treated

Women. The press had long known

Of presidential indiscretions but

Happily looked the other way (one

Of the benefits of being a powerful

White male). So many of my work

Associates similarly disregarded

Marital misbehavior, chalking it 

Up to their irrepressible manliness.

Wives just have to accept their

Husbands having “a little something

On the side.” Many admitted

They had. It was expected. If

You didn’t, you were probably

Queer. But newsgathering got a

Bit more aggressive in 1987

When Senator Gary Hart was 

Followed by a private investigator

To the home of a young woman

Where he spent the night. They 

Wouldn’t let go and again nailed

Hart and Rice on a pleasure craft,

“Monkey Business,” doing a 

Little more than enjoying a

Tete a tete. On the surface

People were more upset with

Clinton’s deception and lying,

“I did not have sexual relations

With that woman,” than they

Were about the dalliance. The 

Left rushed to excuse his 

Infractions claiming it was no

Worse than the Kennedys

Boffing Ms. Monroe of which 

The public didn’t learn until

Too many conspiracy theories

Required setting the story straight.

I wonder if the rosary-toting

Babushkaed bopcki who went

To daily 8 o’clock mass took

Down the portraits of their

Catholic heroes when they learned

Of the philandering, or did they

Put another one up of Marilyn

Monroe between Bobbie and

Jack, breathed a sigh, and muttered

Something about boys

Being boys?

c. J.S.Manista, 2016