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Article: The scandal III: Harassment Hypocrites.(conservative critics changed their views on sexual harrassment after the Paul Jones lawsuit)(Abstract)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- November 9, 1998
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Sexual-harassment law has new-found friends.
THE hypocrisy of the feminists who suddenly rethought sexual harassment when their ally in the White House found himself in the dock has been discussed ad nauseam. But there is plenty of hypocrisy to go around. Until comparatively recently, conservative commentators nearly universally viewed the battle against sexual harassment as both a radical feminist effort to polarize the sexes and an expansion of government power, giving federal agencies and the courts the authority to micromanage workplace etiquette. They rightly pointed out that there were few more egregious examples of judge-made law than turning Title VII of ...