Request for help: Need sources on prominent feminists who supported Bill Clinton during Lewinsky

[Maceman]

I am having a political discussion with a dear friend who happens to be a liberal, and who does not recall any "feminists" jumping to Clinton's support during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

Of course, there were many so-called feminists and prominent Democrat women who were very vocal about defending Clinton then. I would like to be able to provide my friend with some sample quotes to demonstrate this fact.

I don't have time to research it myself, but if anyone knows a page of quotes, or even a link to an individual quote, I'd appreciate if you would drop a link to it on this thread.

Thanks.

[rwgal]

I think it was Hillary....LOL

Meadow Muffin

[teenyelliott]

How can you have a "dear friend" who advocates taking, no, stealing, more of your money to give to ne'er do wells?

Those are enemies, in my book.

Oh, and btw, facts won't matter to the liberal. Forget it.

[Fido969]

As I recall the National Organization of Women had a press conference when that scandal was at its peak. The head of the organization at the time was Patricia Ireland. There was a press photo of the board of NOW standing “shoulder to shoulder” to announce there support of the guy.

Spend some time on Google, you’ll find a flock of fems defending him around that time.

[BluH2o]

Betty Curry

Madeline Albright

[boop]

Hillary was the biggest, blaming it on the VRWC and using her thugs like Pellicano to threaten Kathleen Willey. I seem to recall Gloria Steinem writng an op-ed in a major paper saying it was OK. She got a lot of ridicule because it amounted to a feminist “free-grope” rule. I also remember Bill Bennett on some TV panel show getting attacked when he stated “if you’re going to rape a woman, be sure you are pro-choice”.

[y6162]

It’s not so much that the feminists supported Bill.. It’s just that they didn’t say anything about the Lewinskis.

Under pressure for their hypocrisy, finally the head of NOW, whose name I forget, said Clinton uses women like tissues. That’s about it.

If a Republican president misused an intern like Bill did, you can bet they’d be screaming for his head.

It’s all about abortion. Bill is for it. So...

[rottndog]

I agree....the biggest feminist of them all was Hillary.

Of course, in all seriousness, now we have Hillary to thank for the death of feminism.

[Enterprise]

Nine Burleigh comes to mind here. I'm not sure without further research though if she qualifies as a prominent feminist.

Reporter Offers Clinton a Blewinsky;

[LexBaird]

I recall the famous Gloria Steinem "one free grope" rule. She delared that it was okay for Willie to give a woman (Kathleen Willey?) a squeeze to the breasts, because he stopped when he was asked to. Here is a link.

[puroresu]

Here ya go:

http://www.reason.com/news/show/30734.html

[BluH2o]

The head of the organization at the time was Patricia Ireland. There was a press photo of the board of NOW standing “shoulder to shoulder” to announce there support of the guy.

Give Bubba credit, with the unwavering support of Patricia Ireland guys are now entiltled to one free grope.

[puroresu]

You beat me by 15 seconds! :-)

[infidel29]

Betty Friedan

[LexBaird]

Some more from the linked article:

“Yet from the moment former Arkansas state worker Paula Corbin Jones came forward in May 1994 with her claim of indecent advances by then-Gov. Clinton, feminists were remarkably quick to abandon the Anita Hill paradigm. On CNN, legal scholar and former Democratic strategist Susan Estrich declared that it was healthy for feminists to make the point that “not all women necessarily are telling the truth, and not every complaint deserves to be used in a way which destroys a man.” (Trying to neutralize charges of partisan hypocrisy, Estrich also noted, “Maybe we show it in the case of a friend of ours, but so be it.”)

Others who had supported wide-ranging definitions of sexual harassment in the past suggested that if Clinton indeed had Jones escorted to his hotel room, displayed his distinguishing characteristics, and asked for oral sex, it was no big deal. Katha Pollitt, the acid-tongued commentator for The Nation, noted that Jones lost no pay or promotions for rebuffing him. Eleanor Smeal, former head of the National Organization for Women and president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, opined that it was “a marginal sexual harassment case at best.”

...

“On MSNBC, Wendy Murphy, a staunch feminist victims’ advocate, caustically observed that it was ridiculous to “ask for $3 million merely because you saw a penis!”

[LexBaird]

Ain’t the internet “way-back machine” wunnerful?

[MosesKnows]

feminists and prominent Democrat women who were very vocal about defending Clinton

Silence often provides the strongest defense.

[Yo-Yo]

http://www.feminista.com/archives/v2n11/clinton.html

A start.

[Enterprise]

Here's an interesting feminist article. It doesn't name names as "supporters" but it gives a spin to those who did support him.

Why do Feminists Support Clinton?

[BerryDingle]

Here’s a list of his/her highness’s sickness FWIW.

Clinton History:
Clinton Misogyny - Sex
Juanita Broaddrick (AR)- rape
Eileen Wellstone (Oxford) - rape
Elizabeth Ward Gracen - rape - quid pro quo, post incident intimidation
Regina Hopper Blakely - “forced himself on her, biting, bruising her”
Kathleen Willey (WH) - sexual assault, intimidations, threats
Sandra Allen James (DC) - sexual assault
22 Year Old 1972 (Yale) - sexual assault
Kathy Bradshaw (AK) - sexual assault
Cristy Zercher - unwelcome sexual advance, intimidations
Paula Jones (AR) - unwelcome sexual advance, exposure,

bordering on sexual assault
Carolyn Moffet -unwelcome sexual advance, exposure, bordering on sexual assault
1974 student at University of Arkansas - unwelcome physical contact
1978-1980 - seven complaints per Arkansas state troopers
Monica Lewinsky - quid pro quo, post incident character assault
Gennifer Flowers - quid pro quo, post incident character assault
Dolly Kyle Browning - post incident character assault
Sally Perdue - post incident threats
Betty Dalton - rebuffed his advances, married to one of his supporters
Denise Reeder - apologetic note scanned

Clinton Misogyny - Other
Linda Tripp - coerce, intimidate, deny - Bob Bennett calls her a liar, release her job application, transfer her.
Julia Hiatt-Steele - Willey’s friend and neighbor - used the machine to change her story.
Hillary Rodham Clinton - used as a cover humiliated
Chelsea Clinton - ignored
Betty Currie - used as cover and enabler
Donna Shalala - used as cover, used as whipping post in Cabinet meeting
Madeline Albright - used as cover
Secret Service - female agent complaints
Kathy Ferguson – unwelcome advances