Roadkill on Capitol Hill
- 6 years ago
Roadkill on Capitol Hill
Even though then-Senator Simpson absurdly claimed during those hearings
that it was puzzling that Hill had not come forward sooner given that the nation’s capital was “fertile ground” for a woman with a sexual harassment complaint to be treated fairly, it took 26 more years of rampant sexual harassment — and a fortune in secret settlements on Capitol Hill — before women took to the ramparts.
When the first Times story revealed Ashley Judd’s harrowing experience with Weinstein, the ogre evoked Hillary’s move with Monica when she told people
that Bill was merely “ministering” to a troubled young woman, hinting with faux sympathy that Judd was a troubled woman.
Back in 1991, during the incendiary Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings, the salty Republican senator from Wyoming was very concerned at the idea
that a woman would wait many years after a disturbing encounter and then “come out of the night like a missile and destroy a man.”
It has been a rough spell for men whose primal fear is women coming out of the night like missiles.
There were many women who wanted to save Franken and who complained to the Furies
in the Senate, “Why are we killing our own when we’re getting Roy Moore?”
And Nancy Pelosi’s first instinct was to protect John Conyers, because, as she said, he was “an icon in our country.”
But Democrats in Congress want to use Trump and Moore as foils to stamp themselves as the party that sticks up for women.
For the first time, as they shudder watching the reputations
and livelihoods of so many high-profile men disappear in a blink, many men are paying close attention to women’s stories of being manhandled and minimized, out of self-preservation if not sympathy.
Even though then-Senator Simpson absurdly claimed during those hearings
that it was puzzling that Hill had not come forward sooner given that the nation’s capital was “fertile ground” for a woman with a sexual harassment complaint to be treated fairly, it took 26 more years of rampant sexual harassment — and a fortune in secret settlements on Capitol Hill — before women took to the ramparts.
When the first Times story revealed Ashley Judd’s harrowing experience with Weinstein, the ogre evoked Hillary’s move with Monica when she told people
that Bill was merely “ministering” to a troubled young woman, hinting with faux sympathy that Judd was a troubled woman.
Back in 1991, during the incendiary Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings, the salty Republican senator from Wyoming was very concerned at the idea
that a woman would wait many years after a disturbing encounter and then “come out of the night like a missile and destroy a man.”
It has been a rough spell for men whose primal fear is women coming out of the night like missiles.
There were many women who wanted to save Franken and who complained to the Furies
in the Senate, “Why are we killing our own when we’re getting Roy Moore?”
And Nancy Pelosi’s first instinct was to protect John Conyers, because, as she said, he was “an icon in our country.”
But Democrats in Congress want to use Trump and Moore as foils to stamp themselves as the party that sticks up for women.
For the first time, as they shudder watching the reputations
and livelihoods of so many high-profile men disappear in a blink, many men are paying close attention to women’s stories of being manhandled and minimized, out of self-preservation if not sympathy.