Garment on Jones

Re Suzanne Garment’s “There’s No Escaping the Class System,” Opinion, April 5: In her revealing, fumbled attempt to explain why the Jones vs. Clinton case was ruled incorrectly, Garment exposed her own class bias toward Paula Corbin Jones, describing her as a woman with “big hair,” “on the lowest rung” of the “ladder of class.”

In sexual harassment cases, Garment says of Jones, “When compared with an MBA or a lawyer, such a woman is probably easier to discourage.”

Jones moved her family to California, used a spokesperson/han- dler and a battery of lawyers all to keep her sexual harassment case alive for five years; that is not someone who is easy to discourage.

VICKI STERN

Sherman Oaks

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Garment reveals her concept of “class” by labeling Jones a low-class person, not on the basis of her character or proclivities, but because Jones had a “basement-level clerical job.” She insults Judge Susan Webber Wright in two ways--by accusing the judge of basing a legal opinion on class, and by implying that Wright shares Garment’s vulgar standard of “class.”

EUGENE KUSMIAK

Fallbrook