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...tangle of laws currently defining sexual harassment is so jumbled that even if everyone could agree on the facts, it's simply impossible to predict the outcome of a case like Jones v. Clinton. Just 25 years ago, sexual harassment was considered a radical-fringe by-product of feminist theory. Today it's embedded in multiple Supreme Court decisions (three more are expected before July), thousands of corporate policies and a host of lower-court cases that have spread like kudzu across the legal landscape. The result is a thicket of rulings. Since 1991, juries have returned well over...
...article "In Defense of Hooters and the St. Pauli Girl" (March 13), Noah Oppenheim suggests that what he freely admits to be an objectification of women by chains such as Hooters and magazines such as Playboy have no impact on male-female relations. He states: "[Some feminists] argue that exposure to sexual objectification distorts men's perceptions of all women. They are wrong." His argument is that rational men distinguish between the poster of a naked woman and the women they meet in daily life. It is remarkable that Oppenheim, in his 1,000-word article, has managed to solve...
...Stantons, TIME has learned, are based on Bill and Hillary Clinton. Susan Stanton (Emma Thompson), with her iron irony and rigid self-confidence, is Jack's severest critic and staunchest defender. For all her feminist executive briskness, she is in love with Jack, or with what she can help him become. In a more sophisticated way than Jack does, she sells loyalty, cunning and, when cornered, sex appeal...
...often bemoaned the fact that many Harvard women are reluctant to assert themselves on the topic of sexual equality. The women's groups are all very careful to avoid using that dirty word, feminism. Being feminist hasn't been encouraged or rewarded for many years now. Yet in the ensuing backlash, the best thing about feminism, namely, female dialogue, has fallen by the way-side...
What perplexes me is that in the face of such rock-and-roll feminist epithets as, "It was so great to see women controlling the liquor...playing pool instead of watching men play pool," the group still aligns itself with the all-male final clubs. If Sears' comment is any indication of the historic and prevailing final club attitude toward women ("We tried to get them to understand what goes into running a club. We tried to explain to them that being a landlord is no fun at all"), why, women of the Bee, do you have...