I couldn't agree more.
Despite the excesses of the feminist movement, one of its founders, Gloria Steinem, was almost always level-headed and reasonable, at least in her days of highest prominence.
So it was a major shock when she wrote her "one free grope rule" editorial in the middle of the Clinton scandal, explaining that if a boss grabbed an employees breast or dropped his pants and told her to "kiss it", it wasn't worth making a fuss over as long as he accepted "no thanks" as a response...
Truly astounding.
If I ever meet Ms. Steinem, I think I'll grab her breast as my way of saying "hello" -- and then ask her to sign a copy of her essay.
(Speaking of which, does anyone have a copy? I read it in the newspaper when it originally appeared, but haven't found an electronic copy to save in my archives. Maybe the feminists have hunted down all copies and destroyed them. :-) Similarly, I can no longer find any reference to the following quote, which I copied verbatim from an online CNN story the day it was made: "I have to confess it has crossed my mind that you could not be a Republican and a Christian." -- Hillary Clinton, February 6, 1997. And yes, it was the generic "you", she was not addressing a particular person.)
Ah, found it. Praise Google.
Gloria Steinem's "one free grope rule" editorial can be found here.
One of the key passages:
The truth is that even if the [Willey] allegations are true, the President is not guilty of sexual harassment. He is accused of having made a gross, dumb and reckless pass at a supporter during a low point in her life. She pushed him away, she said, and it never happened again. In other words, President Clinton took "no" for an answer.What Steinem "forgets" to mention is that Clinton said this while stroking his penis, and then he got up and met her at the door as she was trying to leave and with a stern look told her, "You are smart. Let's keep this between ourselves" -- a clear threat.In her original story, Paula Jones essentially said the same thing. She went to then-Governor Clinton's hotel room, where she said he asked her to perform oral sex and even dropped his trousers. She refused, and even she claims that he said something like, "Well, I don't want to make you do anything you don't want to do."