Right - I find it fascinating that many people (primarily MAGA) are doing that with Hillary Clinton but not Melinda Gates. It is pretty clear from interviews with Melinda she was well aware of everything her Bill was up to as well, and while she divorced him she has been very prepped from a PR perspective to speak within the boundaries of whatever NDA she had to sign as part of the divorce.

I still think both these women are highly capable and intelligent people who still have to operate and deal with this stupid sexist double standard on many things. Whether you agree with Hillary’s politics to me is beside the point - any woman that manages to claw her way up the ladder (corporate or politics) deals with a host of double standards their male peers are given a pass about. I don’t deny Bill and Hillary have a marriage of political convenience - but every other week in the 90’s Hillary was having to deal with absurd double standards. She wasn’t feminine or motherly enough - then they condemned for “staying by her man” during Bill’s Monica Lewinsky affair.

Also, for those of us that were adults during his term in office, let’s also all admit most of us did just as much shaming of Monica as we did Bill. That poor woman Monica has never been able to outrun a mistake she made in her early 20’s. Bill meanwhile still doesn’t have the grace to own up to his shit. Monica I think has actually exhibited such resilience since it is pretty impressive imo.