Wonder why we didn’t have this “I believe the women” moment 25 years ago? You’re not alone. After a generation-long bout with amnesia, some media outlets have finally begun reckoning with Bill Clinton and the women casually dismissed by those who supposedly championed their interests — feminists. The Atlantic’s Caitlyn Flanagan writes that women began to come forward in the late 1980s and early 1990s to expose sexual harassment and worse in the workplace, and momentum had built up for a cultural paradigm shift.
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“But then Bubba came along and blew up the tracks,” Flanagan writes — and he had help in the demolition:
It was a pattern of behavior; it included an alleged violent assault; the women involved had far more credible evidence than many of the most notorious accusations that have come to light in the past five weeks. But Clinton was not left to the swift and pitiless justice that today’s accused men have experienced. Rather, he was rescued by a surprising force: machine feminism. The movement had by then ossified into a partisan operation and it was willing—eager—to let this friend of the sisterhood enjoy a little droit de seigneur.
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