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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: dale_laroy who wrote (140810)	4/27/2001 5:41:45 PM
From: nealm	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Perhaps Clarence Thomas thought that Anita Hill was simply lying. Worse yet, lying to satisfy a political agenda. How does a man respond to that? I appreciate your view, I know several men AND women who have a problem with fantasy vs. facts. But the consequences of false allegations are real (e.g. not getting or losing the job). These allegations are contested in our society or courts, which is adversarial in nature. For Clarence Thomas to state that: "90% of what a person thinks happened never did" probably would have caused more damaged to his cause. I think women in general are sensitive to claims of false memories and it would have been a no win situation for him to make such a stereotypical statement. Remember, Anita Hill was backed with the full force of the feminist movement. Any aspersions that women are prone to certain behaviors would have been fodder for more attacks against himself. So what do you when faced with only first person accusations (i.e. the "he said versus she said" claims)? The answer is you look for patterns of alleged behavior.Whether it was several women who came out against Bill Clinton or Bob Packwood (a former Republican Senator). Also you could look for patterns in the environment, an example of which you state in the work place. The notion that someone can simply say: "I will resolve these issues privately between just the two of us." is a bit patronizing and simply unworkable in our adversarial system. From what I remember, no other females came out to make additional claims against Clarence Thomas. Had there been additional claims the case against him would have been strong. As it was the claims were week, after the alleged harassments Anita continued to associate with Clarence Thomas even after she left EEOC. Without showing further proof or a pattern of behavior her creditability is questionable. As an aside, it was interesting to observe the stone cold silence of the feminist movement during the Clinton sagas. In hindsight the feminist movement's creditability, as it pertains to politics, is very close to zero.