Maureen Dowd's "evolving" view of how feminism was affected by Bill Clinton's sexual escapades
Certainly,
the bodybuilder-turned-phenom has had moments of being, to use David
Letterman's word, a lunkhead. But I find the selective outrage of
feminists just as offensive.
Feminism
died in 1998 when Hillary allowed henchlings and Democrats to demonize
Monica as an unbalanced stalker, and when Gloria Steinem defended Mr.
Clinton against Kathleen Willey and Paula Jones by saying he had merely
made clumsy passes, then accepted rejection, so there was no sexual
harassment involved. As to his dallying with an emotionally immature
21-year-old, Ms. Steinem noted, ''Welcome sexual behavior is about as
relevant to sexual harassment as borrowing a car is to stealing one.''
Surely what's good for the Comeback Kid is good for the Terminator.
2016/02/14 - NY Times - "When Hillary Clinton Killed Feminism"
The interesting thing about the spectacle of older women trying to shame younger ones on behalf of Hillary is that Hillary and Bill killed the integrity of institutional feminism back in the ’90s — with the help of Albright and Steinem.
“I do think that feminism died a little bit when the feminists had to help Bill Clinton when Monica was actually telling the truth,” Dowd continued. “They had to support Bill Clinton just because they wanted his progressive policies on women.”
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