Opinion | E. Jean Carroll and the Value of a Woman ‘Past Her Prime’ – The New York Times
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Jessica Bennett
Ms. Bennett is a contributing editor in Opinion, the place she writes about gender, politics and personalities. She reported from contained in the courtroom.
Immediately she’s usually described as a former recommendation columnist, however that time period doesn’t actually do justice to E. Jean Carroll’s profession pre-Donald Trump.
Lengthy earlier than she was one of many longest-serving recommendation columnists in America, Ms. Carroll blazed trails as a gonzo-style journalist The Occasions once called “feminism’s reply to Hunter Thompson.”
She profiled Lyle Lovett and went tenting with the infamous New York curmudgeon Fran Lebowitz for a cover story in Outdoors. She wrote a well-known piece on Dan Relatively for Esquire, appeared in “Best American Crime Writing” and was the primary feminine contributing editor at Playboy — again when individuals actually did learn it for the articles.
Immediately, at greatest, she’s the previous Elle advice columnist E. Jean Carroll. At worst, she’s the loopy Trump rape lawsuit girl. Or, as she put it in court docket just lately: “Beforehand, I used to be identified merely as a journalist, and now I’m often known as the liar, the fraud and the wack job.”
For weeks now, there have been limitless predictions about what the result of Ms. Carroll’s lawsuit towards the previous president would possibly imply for him — his candidacy, his many ongoing court cases, his pockets, his capacity to close up. Now that we now have a verdict, we’ve gotten the solutions, or at the very least a few of them: He shall be $83.3 million poorer and appears to have stopped insulting her in consequence. For now, at the very least.
However as I sat in court docket in Manhattan final week, watching Mr. Trump glare and mumble behind Ms. Carroll’s head — she sat two rows in entrance of him, pin straight in her chair, the primary time she’s been close to this man in practically 30 years — I couldn’t cease considering that this trial was additionally about one thing else: the worth of a lady, long gone center age, who dared to assert she certainly nonetheless had worth. Simply how radical was it for Ms. Carroll, 80, to demand that she was value one thing?
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