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Showing Original Post only (View all)The Clinton Reckoning Is One of the Most Essential #MeToo Revelations Yet [View all]
By CHRISTINA CAUTERUCCI JAN 26, 20186:40 PM
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For the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment, insofar as it exists, thats a good thing. If interpreted correctly, this Clinton report will function much the same as Your Fave Is Problematic, the blog that launched a popular catchphrase for beloved celebrities doing and saying dastardly (usually racist, sexist, or homophobic) things. It is, in other words, evidence that sexual harassment can thrive even in a workplace that is the cultures most on-the-nose symbol of womens empowerment. It disproves the comforting and false idea that people can be easily sorted into piles of good and bad actors when, in fact, there are a thousand degrees in between. And it is a striking reminder that women, tooto protect their own careers, friends, or self-imagesometimes help male abusers keep up their abuse.
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There is value in this opportunity to evaluate the distance between Clintons words and actions. A culture-wide, generations-long epidemic of workplace sexual harassment and assault doesnt persist without a broad network of complicity, composed of individuals with varying degrees of knowledge and culpability. For any movement against sexual misconduct to succeed, and for observers to fully grasp the machinations of abuse, that network must be scrutinized as thoroughly as the abusers themselves. The New York Times reporting on Harvey Weinstein revealed a slew of female executives willing to lure women to meet alone with Weinstein, in addition to a whole class of female assistants employed specifically to facilitate the producers bathrobe-and-hotel scheme. Some of those women might be considered victims themselves. Thats not the case with Clinton, who appears to have willingly put her friends career and her campaigns immediate PR concerns above the safety of her female employees. Still, both Clinton and the likes of Weinsteins assistants belong somewhere in the web of non-abusers who grease the wheels of abuse. We are only starting to understand how those wheels move.
This entry in the ongoing #MeToo saga may frustrate progressives, as did the assault allegations against former Minnesota senator Al Franken, for their illumination of the higher standards for left-leaning politicians. It would hardly be news if a Republican presidential candidate allowed a harasser to keep his job; it would be astonishing news if there wasnt rampant harassment in, say, the ranks of the Donald Trump campaign. On Friday, the Republican National Committee was silent after its finance chair, Steve Wynn, was accused by dozens of women of sexual misconduct in a Wall Street Journal report. And few were surprised to hear the allegations against Bill OReilly, Roger Ailes, and the rest of the Fox News crew, because Fox News displayed just as much contempt for women on air as its male stars did behind the scenes.
But, as I argued when Franken resigned, holding Democrats to a higher standard is a good thing if it means fewer instances in which a woman whos harassed by a higher-up gets reassigned while her harasser gets a slap on the wrist. According to the Times, in previous months, no former Clinton campaign staffers would speak about the 2008 incident. That changed in the wake of the #MeToo movement, the piece says. Todays brighter spotlight on harassment and abuse is already encouraging progressives to point fingers at one of the most powerful figures on their side. The shame of this public showing of ethical dissonance should be enough to scare them into transforming their own workplaces, too.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/01/the-clinton-reckoning-is-one-of-the-most-essential-metoo-revelations-yet.html
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The Clinton Reckoning Is One of the Most Essential #MeToo Revelations Yet [View all]
Voltaire2
Jan 2018
OP
This article is slanted hard against Hillary and doesn't acknowledge that TEN YEARS AGO
pnwmom
Jan 2018
#1
I'm talking about both the transfer AND more specifically, the excuses being made on DU
Ms. Toad
Jan 2018
#70
Trying to accuse people of blindly rejecting "criticism" of her is just another excuse
R B Garr
Jan 2018
#73
Hortensis, I love this post. I hope that you resubmit it for Mrs. Toad since I see
R B Garr
Jan 2018
#75
Pay attention to what I am addressing. Not the strawman you wish I was addressing.
Ms. Toad
Jan 2018
#59
Yours is like the 10th anecdote I've seen posted in last several days where the victim...
Hassin Bin Sober
Jan 2018
#93
Yes, double standards are a hypocritical strawman. When a man is not criticized
R B Garr
Jan 2018
#36
Yeah, men who rub on women and kiss their heads and send suggestive emails to subordinates...
Hassin Bin Sober
Jan 2018
#99
It's not too late to write Sanders about your concerns over the Arturo allegations. nt
R B Garr
Jan 2018
#102
Due process is covering something up?! REALLY !?!? Stop hating her, it's not fun
uponit7771
Jan 2018
#12
How is going through an HR process that ends up with docking of pay and mandatory counseling
KitSileya
Jan 2018
#17
I didn't hear or read anything about a "cover up". The man was disciplined, demoted, and docked...
George II
Jan 2018
#18
Yeah, disciplining a sexual harasser by demoting him, docking his pay, mandatory counseling,
KitSileya
Jan 2018
#35
Didn't she writes some essays about ......................oh, that's right, she didn't.
George II
Jan 2018
#37
Well, since no one said that and it is literally not applicable to this incident, you
Ninsianna
Jan 2018
#26
Where do you gat "a couple months pay"? All the articles I've seen say a couple weeks
Hassin Bin Sober
Jan 2018
#5
I'll look for it. But I just found that he was ALSO given a demotion, including a drop in pay.
pnwmom
Jan 2018
#6
Not only that, but there was a procedure in place to handle situations like that, and apparently....
George II
Jan 2018
#20
Even in the 1980s and 1990s, there were people fired for harassment in many companies
karynnj
Jan 2018
#96
That was sort of the point of the article, but some people just can't get past
Voltaire2
Jan 2018
#21
Only Hillary Clinton would be held accountable for the sexual harrassement committed by some man.
TeamPooka
Jan 2018
#9
... and this article is far from it. Just wanted to finish the statement for you :)
uponit7771
Jan 2018
#14
And that "truth" is? Everyone is acting like this was/is a big secret. It isn't.
George II
Jan 2018
#19
When was the photo taken of Al Franken pretending to fondle another comic's breasts?
jalan48
Jan 2018
#38
Hmm, I think the steps taken were appropriate. Pay docked, counseling required - or does everything
seaglass
Jan 2018
#46
Hey!! I have an idea!! Lets post more anti HRC stuff while the turd that was the USA is . . . .
Stinky The Clown
Jan 2018
#62
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Cha
Jan 2018
#97
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mercuryblues
Jan 2018
#100