“Women — not all women, but significant numbers of them — are furious, not only at the way Hill was abused, but also at the failure of the men on the tribunal to grasp that the personal is political.”

“Hill described a man who was crude, inept, driven. He asked for a date but couldn’t take no for an answer. He hammered away, wanting to know why he was being turned down. He used his authority to feel big at the expense of making a woman feel small”

“The Thomas hearings produced a flood of complaints from women, inaugurating a great debate on the subject and its relationship to power. All of which presents a profound opportu­nity for feminists to organize women around yet another dirty secret, and in the process foster social change”

Twenty-seven years ago, the Voice exposed the way in which Senate Republicans attacked and vilified Anita Hill — and won. Now the Old Boys Club is applying the same playbook against Brett Kavanaugh’s accusers.

The Voice’s 1991 coverage of Clarence Thomas vs. Anita Hill: From Shakespeare to that infamous Coke can