Crenshaw's essay portrays Anita Hill as a woman that was victimized; she had no way out and was raped by Clarence Thomas. According to Paglia, every woman has a choice, it is the ignorance about sex, rape, men, and hormones that led Anita Hill to be raped. It wasn't the fault of the man but the fault of the woman. Paglia almost agrees with the prominent ideal that it is the fault of the woman's and not the man, whether she was being a "whore, tease, liar, mentally or emotionally unstable (Crenshaw, 409)- and etc.
Crenshaw's idea that Anita Hill is the victim is false because she was too ignorant and young to realize what she was getting herself into. She worked a high position job serving as the assistant Secretary of Education underneath Clarence Thomas and caused herself into the position of being raped.
The social power of women, according to Paglia, is to be educated about rape, men, and how it would happen. If a woman is dumb enough to get "dead drunk (Paglia, 51)- without girlfriends at her side at a Fraternity party, than she deserves to get raped because she's too ignorant to realize that a fraternity party is full of horny boys that want to become men by having sex with a women. Paglia says that boys in college are at their hormonal peak because they just separated from their mothers and it's time for them to become men in the world that they live in. A girl would know this fact and be weary of it. The same goes for Anita because she was in a position under Thomas and the rape could not have been a product of forcible intercourse but rather a misunderstanding between the two partners. A woman, according to Paglia is never safe wherever she is because "women will always be in sexual danger (50)- The problem with women is that they want equal opportunity, rights, respect, and be one of the guys. Anita might have also been a feminist being a professor and high on the social ladder that she had a vision of a perfect world, but that keeps her from seeing life as it is.
