I didn't know if this would be of any interest to this group...
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> From: juliette cutler page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: To All The Women Used and Victimized by Bill Clinton
> Date: Monday, March 01, 1999 2:58 PM
>
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>
> Contact: Juliette Cutler Page, Editor-in-Chief
> Feminista!
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Nikki Craft
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> TO ALL THE WOMEN USED AND VICTIMIZED BY BILL CLINTON
>
> To all the women used and victimized by Bill Clinton, those known and
> unknown, we believe your stories. We believe you; and we honor your
courage
> in speaking out.
>
> Bill Clinton's patterns, established years ago in Arkansas, reveal that
he
> is a liar and a predator who has repeatedly sexually assaulted and
harassed
> women. In Arkansas and Washington, he has abused his office by exploiting
> and subordinating women in the workplace. Clinton, and the societal
> response to his abuses, have undone -- more than any other single force
in
> our lifetime -- the analysis and activism against sexual harassment law.
> Bill Clinton, as with all other sexual predators, is not our ally, and no
> profeminist social policy work will make up for his abuses of individual
> women.
>
> We have never condoned and furthermore are angered and embarrassed by the
> silence, the confusion of politic, the cowardice, the apathy, the
> obfuscation and the betrayal by NOW and other feminists (1), by the
media,
> and by our elected 'representatives'.
>
> We stand with all the women Clinton has abused, in opposition to violence
> against women, whenever and wherever it occurs, whoever the perpetrator,
> whether he be a profeminist, a democrat, a republican, or the President
on
> the United States.
>
> Juliette Cutler-Page
> Editor-in-chief, Feminista!
> http://www.feminista.com
>
>
> Nikki Craft
> Always Causing Legal Unrest (ACLU)
> http://www.nemesis.org/nemesis/ACLU/Porn/
> http://www.nemesis.org/nemesis/ACLU/Nikki/
>
> Footnotes
>
> 1. Note this article printed August 4, 1998 in The Wall Street Journal
> entitled "Who's a Hypocrite--and Who Cares?" (Eastern Edition, Vol. 232,
> Issue 24, Page A, Section 18.)
>
> "Yet the feminists who ardently believed Ms. Hill have largely stood by
> Clinton amid Paula Jone's and Kathleen Willey's accusations of sexual
> misconduct. In April the National Organization for Women briefly
considered
> supporting Ms. Jones in her case against the president, but decided
against
> it after polling its state and national leaders. NOW's president,
Patricia
> Ireland, explained that the group determined Ms. Jones's lawsuit was
> unworthy of support because it was backed by 'disreputable right-wing
> organizations'. The personal is political, it seems, except when politics
> dictates otherwise.
>
> This hypocrisy does not necessarily mean the feminist position lacks
merit,
> and some feminists, notably the anti-pornography crusader Andrea Dworkin
> (2), have stuck to their principles, attacking the president as
vigorously
> as they did Justice Thomas. But the definition of sexual harassment is
> unsettled, and the feminist position is a controversial one. If
mainstream
> feminists are willing to abandon their principles for the sake of
political
> expediency, especially in such a celebrated case, they will have
difficulty
> persuading the public to embrace those principles."
>
> 2. "Dear Bill and Hillary", January 20, 1998, Andrea Dworkin Online
Library:
> http://www.igc.org/Womensnet/dworkin/Clinton.html
>
> Please circulate this letter widely in its entirety.
>
>
>
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> If Bill Clinton is a feminist then I'd like a definition of feminism. . .
> [and] if the feminists can stand by and watch this
> then they have no principles.
> --Bill Bennett, August 15, 1998
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>
> Juliette Cutler Page
> Editor-in-Chief, Feminista!
> The Online Journal of Feminist Construction
> http://www.feminista.com
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