Feminists Selling Out For Bill Clinton
"Yes," Lewinsky says. "I think it’s fair to say that whatever mistakes I made, I was hung out to dry by a lot of people – by a lot of the feminists who had loud voices."
Remember that Bill Clinton leveraged the "Year of the Woman." Then he preyed on women in the White House and Hillary protected him.
But the political left — most particularly the women of the left — defended him because he promised to protect abortion rights and their other agendas. -John Kass 
The notorious 1998 New York Times op-ed by Gloria Steinem must surely stand as one of the most regretted public actions of her life. It slut-shamed, victim-blamed, and age-shamed; it urged compassion for and gratitude to the man the women accused.
Moreover (never write an op-ed in a hurry; you’ll accidentally say what you really believe), it characterized contemporary feminism as a weaponized auxiliary of the Democratic Party.
-Caitlin Flanagan
Of course, many liberals and Democrats stood by Mr. Clinton despite the allegations because they agreed with his policy stances and did not want to reward those on the other side.
Nina Burleigh, a journalist, wrote a column at the time joking that she would give Mr. Clinton oral sex for protecting abortion rights.
-Peter Baker
Anita Hill dismissed and rebutted credible allegations of sexual assault against former President Bill Clinton as his administration was subsumed by sex scandals, and urged women to support Clinton despite his alleged predations. -Kevin Daley
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“I think most women understand that they should not be held accountable for the behaviors of their husbands. And you know, frankly, it was a long time ago, and our country did very well under the leadership of Bill Clinton,” Ms. McCaskill told MSNBC.
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In a March 22, 1998 Op/Ed piece in the New York Times, Steinem effectively gave support to the notion that a man may: (1) uninvited, open-mouth kiss a woman; (2) uninvited, fondle a woman's breast; and (3) uninvited, take a woman's hand and place it on the man's genitals; and as long as the man retreats once the woman says "no" that this does not constitute sexual harassment. This has become known in the popular culture as the "One Free Grope" Theory. The Op/Ed piece was written in an attempt to defend then President Bill Clinton against allegations of sexual impropriety that had been made by White House volunteer Kathleen Willey.
Liberal Sexual Harassment Enablers
Part of the problem with sexual harassment – and harassment in general – is that it is often not limited to the actions of one specific individual, but it involves enablers who turned a blind eye to inappropriate and abhorrent behavior. -Dr. Bernice Ledbetter
Feminists Silent On Bill Clinton’s Predatory Behavior...
We all suffer from the inclination, whether knowing or unknowing, to assess evidence through the lens of preexisting biases.
Liberals have faced — and failed — this test before, when they minimized the significance of President Bill Clinton’s predatory behavior with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
Writing in Vanity Fair, Marjorie Williams skewered “the writers, lawyers, activists, officeholders, and academics who call themselves feminists” who had been outraged by the sexual harassment allegations against Justice Clarence Thomas but “were either silent or dismissive this time.”
... And of course, Bill Clinton is welcome anywhere at any time. Is there a sex pest the libs won't welcome back for telling them what they want to hear?
"I would be happy to give him a blowjob just to thank him for keeping abortion legal.
I think American women should be lining up with their Presidential kneepads on to show their gratitude for keeping the theocracy off our backs."
Fake Feminism...
It will always be fake feminism — 20 years ago and now and beyond — until Bill Clinton is held to account.
The Democratic Party needs to make its own reckoning of the way it protected Bill Clinton.
The party needs to come to terms with the fact that it was so enraptured by their brilliant, Big Dog president and his stunning string of progressive accomplishments that it abandoned some of its central principles.
Bill Clinton: Trail Blazer...
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.
Trashing And Intimidating The Women
"They made fun of me. They didn’t believe me. They said I was making it up." -Paula Jones
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Yet from the moment former Arkansas state worker Paula Corbin Jones came forward in May 1994 with her claim of indecent advances by then-Gov. Clinton, feminists were remarkably quick to abandon the Anita Hill paradigm. On CNN, legal scholar and former Democratic strategist Susan Estrich declared that it was healthy for feminists to make the point that "not all women necessarily are telling the truth, and not every complaint deserves to be used in a way which destroys a man."
To sum up, I think Bill Clinton could very well have raped Juanita Broaddrick; that it doesn’t make him an evil man, or irredeemable (I’m Catholic; we’re all forgiven, if we’re sorry, and Broaddrick says Bill Clinton personally called her up to apologize).
It doesn’t even necessarily make him a bad feminist — you know, later, once he stops doing that. -Rebecca Schoenkopf, "Let’s Talk About Juanita Broaddrick"
A fellow Arkansas resident, Linda and her husband Harry Thomason became friends with the Clinton’s during the 1980s when Bill served as governor of the state...
The couple stood by former President Bill Clinton after reports of his sexual misbehavior became public, even producing a laudatory documentary entitled “The Man From Hope” designed to rehabilitate his “every man” image.
-Jack Crowe
As the current accountability moment grows, we ought to recognize and admit that we had a chance to do this almost 20 years ago — potentially sparing countless young women a wide range of unpleasant and discriminatory experiences, or at a minimum reducing their frequency and severity. And we blew it. -Matthew Yglesias