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Michelle Schools Donald Trump
ANITA HILL lost her fight.
The creepy guy who acted pervy toward her won.
ANITA HILL lost her fight.
The creepy guy who acted pervy toward her won.
The issue of sexual harassment burst onto the national scene 25 years ag
o, exploding in the male dominion of Congress, in the shadow of that mac
ho symbol, the Washington Monument.
Such vulgarities and sexually explicit language had never been heard bef
ore in the political arena. It was like a jackhammer drilling down into
the most sensitive parts of the American psyche.
That traumatic week in 1991 was considered an important tutorial in sexu
al harassment. Except that, in the end, droit du seigneur was ratified.
Clarence Thomas got rewarded by the cowed Senate Judiciary Committee and
ended up with a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
No women voted against Thomas because none were on the committee. Just m
iddle-aged white men, many of whom left the chamber believing that there
had been some sort of consensual relationship between Hill and Thomas.
Why else did she wait so many years to tell her story? Why else would sh
e not have quit when Thomas was so prurient or at least not follow him t
o another government office? Male entitlement could fathom male entitlem
ent, but not the myriad ways women continue to be treated as property, a
nd the myriad ways women react to that shameful treatment ? suppressing
it or working around it.
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