Misogynies

When she pushed him away, he punched her in the face, breaking her jaw.

Women’s groups and MPs protest; in the very worst cases, the Lord Chancellor may even issue a rebuke. Then the whole business dies down—until it happens again

tends to bear out her version of events rather than Judge Thomas’s—but the vehemence of his denials

Thomas’s alleged remarks about a character called ‘Long Dong Silver’, and about pubic hair on his Coke,

when I was grabbed and kissed by a dee-jay at the radio station where I worked in 1979, I struggled free but did not complain to the management because he was a far more valued employee than I was.

when I was grabbed and kissed by a dee-jay at the radio station where I worked in 1979, I struggled free

Two other former employees of Judge Thomas came forward to say that he had made sexual remarks to them while he was their boss at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 1984 and 1985

A majority of people now seem to accept its existence and the need to do something about it. At the same time, a majority of Americans, at least, appear to think Anita Hill was lying.

The obvious conclusion, if you had been living on Mars in October 1991 and missed the Senate hearings, would be that Professor Hill’s case against Judge Thomas was riddled with obvious lies and inconsistences

A majority of people now seem to accept its existence and the need to do something about it.

The sympathetic stance of a wide range of commentators on sexual harassment, and the law lords’ ruling on marital rape, are symptoms of the same trend