Editing Naomi Wolf (section)

===Alleged "sexual encroachment" incident at Yale===
In a 2004 article for ''New York'' magazine, Wolf accused literary scholar [[Harold Bloom]] of a "sexual encroachment" in 1983 for touching her inner thigh. She said that what she alleged Bloom did was not harassment, either legally or emotionally, and she did not think herself a "victim", but that she had harbored this secret for 21 years. In a 2015 interview with ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', Bloom denied ever being indoors with "this person".<ref>{{cite magazine|last=D'Addario|first=Daniel|url=https://time.com/3841452/10-questions-with-harold-bloom/|title=10 Questions with Harold Bloom|magazine=Time|date=April 30, 2015|access-date=January 4, 2020|archive-date=September 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190904080230/https://time.com/3841452/10-questions-with-harold-bloom/|url-status=live}}</ref> Explaining why she had finally gone public with the charges, Wolf wrote:

<blockquote>I began, nearly a year ago, to try—privately—to start a conversation with my alma mater that would reassure me that steps had been taken in the ensuing years to ensure that unwanted sexual advances of this sort weren't still occurring. I expected Yale to be responsive. After nine months and many calls and e-mails, I was shocked to conclude that the atmosphere of collusion that had helped to keep me quiet twenty years ago was still intact—as secretive as a Masonic lodge.<ref name="WolfNYM2004">{{cite journal|last=Wolf|first=Naomi|title=The Silent Treatment|journal=New York|date=March 1, 2004|url=https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/features/n_9932/|access-date=May 19, 2010|archive-date=April 13, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100413181357/http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/features/n_9932/|url-status=live}}</ref>  Sexual encroachment in an educational context or a workplace is, most seriously, a corruption of meritocracy; it is in this sense parallel to bribery. I was not traumatized personally, but my educational experience was corrupted. If we rephrase sexual transgression in school and work as a civil-rights and civil-society issue, everything becomes less emotional, less personal. If we see this as a systemic corruption issue, then when people bring allegations, the focus will be on whether the institution has been damaged in its larger mission.<ref name="WolfNYM2004" /></blockquote>

In ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]'' magazine around the time the allegations against Bloom first surfaced, [[Meghan O'Rourke]] wrote that Wolf generalized about sexual assault at Yale on the basis of her alleged personal experience. Moreover, O'Rourke wrote, despite Wolf's assertion that sexual assault existed at Yale, she did not interview any Yale students for her story. In addition, O'Rourke wrote, "She jumps through verbal hoops to make it clear she was not 'personally traumatized,' yet she spends paragraphs describing the incident in precisely those terms." O'Rourke wrote that, despite Wolf's claim that her educational experience was corrupted, Wolf "neglects to mention that she later was awarded a [[Rhodes scholarship|Rhodes]] [scholarship]." O'Rourke concluded that the "gaps and imprecision" in Wolf's article "give fodder to skeptics who think sexual harassment charges are often just a form of hysteria."<ref>{{cite news|last=O'Rourke|first=Meghan|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2004/02/crying_wolf.html|title=Crying Wolf|work=Slate|date=February 25, 2004|access-date=January 4, 2020|archive-date=December 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181211103025/http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2004/02/crying_wolf.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

Separately, a formal complaint was filed with the [[US Department of Education]] [[Office for Civil Rights]] on March 15, 2011, by 16 current and former Yale students—12 female and 4 male—describing a sexually hostile environment at Yale. A federal investigation of Yale University began in March 2011 in response to the complaints.<ref>Gassó, Jordi, [http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2011/apr/01/yale-under-investigation/ "Yale under federal investigation for possible Title IX violations"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111224180146/http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2011/apr/01/yale-under-investigation/ |date=December 24, 2011}}, ''Yale Daily News'', April 1–2, 2011. Retrieved September 21, 2012.</ref> In April, Wolf said on CBS's ''[[The Early Show]]'', "Yale has been systematically covering up much more serious crimes than the ones that can be easily identified." More specifically, she alleged "they use the sexual harassment grievance procedure in a very cynical way, purporting to be supporting victims, but actually using a process to stonewall victims, to isolate them, and to protect the university."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hostile-sexual-environment-at-yale/|title='Hostile sexual environment' at Yale?|work=CBS News|date=April 4, 2011|access-date=January 4, 2020|archive-date=August 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804173839/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hostile-sexual-environment-at-yale/|url-status=live}}</ref> Yale settled the federal complaint in June 2012, acknowledging "inadequacies" but not facing "disciplinary action with the understanding that it keeps in place policy changes instituted after the complaint was filed. The school [was] required to report on its progress to the Office of Civil Rights until May, 2014."<ref>Ariosto, David; Remizowski, Leigh. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120617181706/http://articles.cnn.com/2012-06-15/justice/justice_connecticut-yale-settlement_1_sexual-harassment-sexual-misconduct-sexually-hostile-environment?_s=PM:JUSTICE "Yale settles sexual harassment complaint"], CNN, June 15, 2012. Retrieved September 21, 2012.</ref>

In January 2018, Wolf accused Yale officials of blocking her from filing a formal grievance against Bloom. She told ''The New York Times'' that she had attempted to file the complaint in 2015 with Yale's University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct, but that the university had refused to accept it.<ref name="Taylor20180116">{{cite news|last=Taylor|first=Kate|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/nyregion/naomi-wolf-harold-bloom-harassment-yale.html|title=''Beauty Myth'' Writer Says Yale Blocked Harassment Claim|work=The New York Times|date=January 16, 2018|access-date=November 12, 2018|archive-date=March 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330000738/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/nyregion/naomi-wolf-harold-bloom-harassment-yale.html|url-status=live}}</ref> On January 16, 2018, Wolf said, she determined to see Yale's provost, [[Ben Polak]], in another attempt to present her case. "As she documented on [[Twitter]]," the newspaper reported, "she brought a suitcase and a sleeping bag, because she said she did not know how long she would have to stay. When she arrived at the provost's office, she said, security guards prevented her from entering any elevators. Eventually, she said, Aley Menon, the secretary of the sexual misconduct committee, appeared and they met in the committee's offices for an hour, during which she gave Ms. Menon a copy of her complaint."<ref name="Taylor20180116" /> This was reported and confirmed by Norman Vanamee, who apparently met Wolf at Yale that morning. In ''[[Town & Country (magazine)|Town & Country]]'' magazine in January 2018, Vanamee returned to the story and wrote, "Yale University has a 93-person police department, and, after the guard called for backup, three of its armed and uniformed officers appeared and stationed themselves between Wolf and the elevator bank."<ref>{{Cite news|last=Vanamee|first=Norman|url=https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/a15844647/naomi-wolf-yale-harold-bloom/|title=Will Yale Finally Listen to Naomi Wolf?|work=Town & Country|date=January 23, 2018|access-date=January 4, 2020|archive-date=December 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191218231412/https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/a15844647/naomi-wolf-yale-harold-bloom/|url-status=live}}</ref>