More half-formed

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alexbalk:

“Monica Lewinsky is like one of those kids who got polio right before they developed the vaccine. A year or two later, what with the whole Death of Shame thing, she would have wound up a Fox News commentator or something; sadly, being on the wrong side of the line, she’ll spend the rest of her life in the joke bin between “blowjobs” and “tobacco products inserted into hoohas.”

Okay, okay, good night.”

So, this statement, which is a brilliant one, really, got me thinking. When was the Death of Shame? Is there a specific incident that Alex is referring to? Was it a quick death? Or a series of wounds that over time became mortal? Was it a disease? An accident? I wonder.