Liberals were quick to turn away from victims like Monica Lewinsky in favor of feminist ‘champions’ like Bill Clinton Monica Lewinsky is still treated like an outcast in the #MeToo era, while men like Bill Clinton who promote the liberal agenda are given a pass.

Charlotte Allen | Opinion contributor

Show Caption Hide Caption Monica Lewinsky: I was uninvited from an event because of Bill Clinton Monica Lewinsky was recently uninvited from an event because someone else decided to attend. That someone else being Bill Clinton. Susana Victoria Perez has more.

Well, it seems that Town & Country magazine rescinded its invitation to Monica Lewinsky to attend its annual Philanthropy Summit gala on Wednesday after another, apparently more sought-after celebrity decided to attend: former president Bill Clinton.

​Town & Country, at first, claimed to know nothing about the disinvitation, then tweeted a sort of apology: “We apologize to Ms. Lewinsky and regret the way the situation was handled.”

Although it was pretty clear that the magazine didn’t have too many regrets about preferring the former president as its star guest to the woman who had sexually serviced him in the Oval Office when she was a 22-year-old White House intern.

The magazine proudly issued a video showing a smiling, nattily dressed Clinton introducing gun-control activist Emma Gonzalez, 18, at the Philanthropy Summit podium. The theme of that particular panel in the video, by the way, was “Rewriting the History of Violence.”

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​If this reminds you of something — a powerful liberal man who always says the politically correct thing about women’s rights, being favored by his peers over an actual woman of whose naiveté he took advantage — it’s because we just saw it this week again. Yes, Eric Schneiderman.

The now-disgraced Democratic attorney general in New York who resigned on Monday, amid allegations uncovered by The New Yorker that he had physically assaulted and verbally abused at least four former girlfriends, had been a feminist icon, same as Clinton. He was the “champion of choice,” with reproductive-rights-themed speeches, donations to Planned Parenthood, and litigation against abortion-clinic protesters — not to mention his just-filed #MeToo lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein. So it was that, according to reporters Jane Mayer and Ronan Farrow, when one of the alleged victims told her liberal friends about the mistreatment, they “advised her to keep the story to herself," arguing that Schneiderman was "too valuable a politician for the Democrats to lose."

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​Clinton’s liaison with Lewinsky didn’t feature that sort of alleged physical violence — although there was certainly a #MeToo power imbalance between the young intern and her boss. Clinton has also been accused of crude sexual misconduct toward several other women. Yet the same feminists who recoiled when conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was charged with sexual harassment during his confirmation hearing gladly turned around and covered for Clinton because of his support of reproductive rights.

Journalist Nina Burleigh famously said: "I'd be happy to give him (oral sex) just to thank him for keeping abortion legal.”

​You might ask: What is it about feminists? What is it about liberals? And you might wonder about people who beat the drum until the skin ruptures for women’s supposed rights in the abstract but care less than nothing about real-life women, and the events they can’t attend because of the preference for their abusers.

Charlotte Allen is a writer in Washington, D.C. Follow her on Twitter: @MeanCharlotte.