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Clarence Thomas's wife Ginni now acknowledges that asking Anita Hill to apologize may have been a bad idea — but that's totally not why she's stepping down as head of Tea Partier organization Liberty Central. More »
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Clarence Thomas's ex Lillian McEwen appeared on Larry King last night to talk about Thomas's alcoholism and "weird" obsessions — and whether the man she knew was qualified to serve on the Supreme Court. More »
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Clarence Thomas's ex-girlfriend says he was "obsessed with porn," and now she's shopping a memoir. So is that why Virginia Thomas made her phone call? More »
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Opinionators are offering a number of explanations for Virginia Thomas's bizarro phone call to Anita Hill: love, innocence, naivete, Ambien. Are we, um, dancing around something here? More »
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In a bizarre turn of events, Clarence Thomas's wife Virginia called Anita Hill earlier this month, asking Hill to apologize for that whole sexual harassment thing. Because, you know, it was her fault. More »
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"Working Girl" (aka Karen Burns) has a novel approach to sexual harassment: just laugh. In a blog post yesterday on the website of US News & World Report, she writes, "laughter as a weapon comes in five flavors." These include "scornful laughter. As in: "Right. In your dreams."" and "diabolical laughter. As in: 'Great! I've been waiting for you to make a stupid mistake like this.'" According to Burns, "laughter confuses the harasser, reversing the whole dynamic in your favor." But we think laughing at harassment carries a risk — that it will confuse harassers so much they won't know what they did wrong. More »
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Not infrequently do I find myself desperate to restore the early nineties. They played Pavement on the radio in the early nineties! And girls didn't dress so slutty. And on that note! This whole Anita Hill Clarence "Don't Call Me Isiah" Thomas rehashalon (Anita, above, was just on Good Morning America) is reminding me that a few things have changed for the better in the past sixteen years: namely, I have been sexually harassed. So have you! Sometimes it's amusing, sometimes plain creepy, but whatevs: we talk about it all the time. So we get what happened there. And I can finally pinpoint exactly why I feel bad for Clarence Thomas: because the man knows he is soooooo much less of a perv than Bill Clinton, and yet Clinton got away with it because he was both blacker than Clarence Thomas and not black at all. And it has tormented the shit out of him since. His weird pubic hair Coke can comment doesn't approach shit I've put up with on the job, much less the sexual hypocrisies haunting the Ted Haggards and Larry Craigs of this world, and yet! More »
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