Groping toward sanity: why the Clinton sex scandals are changing how we talk about sexual harassment.
| Publisher | Reason Foundation |
| Publication | Reason |
| Subject | Humanities |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0048-6906 |
| Issues per Year | 11 |
| Volume | v30 |
| Issue | n4 |
| Published | 1998-08-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Person | Public opinion | Bill Clinton |
| Author | n/a | Cathy Young |
"This is the death of sexual harassment," Susan Carpenter-MacMillan, the flamboyant adviser to Paula Jones, announced on TV - meaning, of course, sexual harassment as a cause, not as behavior, and referring to feminists' failure to support her protege. That was a few days before Jones's sexual harassment suit against President Clinton was dismissed on summary judgment in March. Since then, there has been a good deal of talk about what the case will mean for the legal system and for the American workplace, with many conservatives in the unaccustomed role of lamenting that women will be...
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