Bfgrn
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I'm not arguing with you there. I may understand where she was coming from and how screwed up she must have been with everything she had to deal with from JFK's screwing around to the fishbowl to the assassinations. But understanding and having some compassion isn't the same as saying she deserves sainthood. It's just more complicated than she's Mother Teresa or she's a skank, there's a whole lot in between.
Of course then the argument isn't as much fun.
Jackie may have been more put out at times, that Lem Billings, Jack's lifelong Choate friend had his own room at the White House.
American Chronicle | The Man who Loved Jack Kennedy
That's all pretty well known to anybody who's interested. And I do recognize it couldn't have been easy live her life and not get paranoid. But the fact is she did use Onassis for money and security, in a real way not much different from the women discussed earlier in the thread. The fact that her choices were hard ones doesn't give her a pass for that to any greater or lesser degree than it should for the others, some of whose choices were also not easy. That's not heartless, it's simply acknowledging the truth. Or is it her name that matters, and not her actions?
It has nothing to do with her name, and it has everything to do with HER life...
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde