Thursday, October 12, 2017

Althouse: Interest in sexual harassment was suppressed to protect Bill Clinton: Is that part of why Harvey Weinstein got away with his abuses?

Althouse: Interest in sexual harassment was suppressed to protect Bill Clinton: Is that part of why Harvey Weinstein got away with his abuses?
Interest in sexual harassment was suppressed to protect Bill Clinton: Is that part of why Harvey Weinstein got away with his abuses?
"...But in 1998, when the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke, Democrats reversed the message. 
In the biggest sellout of feminism I've seen in my lifetime, sexual harassment turned into just sex, and those who wanted to take it seriously were derided as prigs.
Image result for bill clinton womenNow, I'm reading the NYT article "Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie and Others Say Weinstein Harassed Them/'This way of treating women ends now,' Ms. Paltrow said as she and other actresses accused the producer of casting-couch abuses," and I'm wondering why only now? 
Why not earlier? 
What stood in your way?
My hypothesis is that liberals — including nearly everyone in the entertainment business — suppressed concern about sexual harassment to help Bill Clinton. 
Giving him cover gave cover to other powerful men, and the cause of women's equality in the workplace was set back 20 years.
...Are these allegations coming out now because Hillary Clinton lost the election and the time for covering for Bill Clinton is over at long last?"
Read it all!

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