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Politics : Should Clinton resign? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (242)	9/13/1998 8:02:00 PM
From: James A. Shankland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 567

[Re my criticism of your use of the word "rape", you write:] Many millions of American women have felt pressure at the workplace to have sex with men who have authority and power over them. Many of them didn't say no, because they didn't feel they could. It is commonplace for these women to make excuses for the men who have raped them. It is common for these women to invent elaborate facades of self-delusion. That doesn't mean they weren't raped. Well, I guess. But none of this was even alleged. The Starr report certainly provides no hint of any pressure of any kind for Ms. Lewinsky to have sex with the President. On the contrary, she describes a mutual, intense flirtation that turned into sexual involvement. (This is not a criticism of Ms. Lewinsky.) It's bad enough that some treat all these unrebutted allegations as gospel truth. The ice gets really thin when one extends them unilaterally, hypothesizing that the actual actions committed are worse even than alleged, because key participants are "inventing elaborate facades of self-delusion". That could cut both ways.