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[caption id="attachment_1940" align="alignnone" width="940"] Photo courtesy of James Fox (Flickr)[/caption] Monica Lewinsky returned to the public stage to speak about her very public scandal at the TED Conference Truth and Dare on March 19. “At 22, I fell in love with my boss. At [. . .] 24, I learned the devastating consequences.” It’s no secret that Lewinsky was publicly and globally humiliated by Internet users due to her sexual relationship with then-president Bill Clinton. “I was branded as a tramp, tart, slut, whore, bimbo, and, of course, ‘that woman,’” she recalled from the comments posted online. Lewinsky’s ‘slut-shaming’ experience…

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