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“It feels, on the one hand, as though we’ve been through these two months in which we’re seeing really powerful people lose jobs. In some cases where we’re seeing women’s claims taken very seriously, where people are worrying in fact that all the claims are being taken seriously, though I don’t know that there’s that much evidence of that, but that we’re having this moment in part because up until like five minutes ago women’s claims weren’t taken seriously. Clarence Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court. Donald Trump was elected president, despite the stories of 15 women who claim that he assaulted them. So the notion that we’re now in this moment where everybody’s going to pay is disproven by the guy sitting in our White House. It may feel briefly right now as though women have all this power and we can kind of right the wrongs, but structurally there’s not a lot of evidence that that’s the case.”
- Rebecca Traister, with Jane Mayer, on how Anita Hill changed sexual harassment in the U.S.
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“It feels, on the one hand, as though we’ve been through these two months in which we’re seeing really powerful people lose jobs. In some cases where we’re seeing women’s claims taken very seriously, where people are worrying in fact that all the claims are being taken seriously, though I don’t know that there’s that much evidence of that, but that we’re having this moment in part because up until like five minutes ago women’s claims weren’t taken seriously. Clarence Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court. Donald Trump was elected president, despite the stories of 15 women who claim that he assaulted them. So the notion that we’re now in this moment where everybody’s going to pay is disproven by the guy sitting in our White House. It may feel briefly right now as though women have all this power and we can kind of right the wrongs, but structurally there’s not a lot of evidence that that’s the case.”
- Rebecca Traister, with Jane Mayer, on how Anita Hill changed sexual harassment in the U.S.
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