CASTING OUT THE DEMON Daphne Patai Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 Even those who deplore the Supreme Court decision in Davis v. Monroe County, holding schools potentially liable for the "sexu- ally harassing" behavior of students, have failed to ask the key question: Who benefits from the ideological shift that promotes in- creasing micromanagement of personal relations--from the work- place to the university and finally down to the schoolyard? The major beneficiaries at the moment are the professionals of the Sexual Harassment Industry whose services have been indispensable to train, consult, advise, and write policy aimed at helping employers and now schools avoid liability related to the ever-expanding charge of sexual harassment. But beyond them are those responsible for the ideological shift that has brought this industry into being. It is, in the end, feminist extremists who have grounds for celebrating. Their views, incorporated--perhaps unwittingly--intolegal decisions, have scored an extraordinary success. In just a few decades, their insistence that heterosexualityis a social construct oppressive and inimical to women has gone from being a marginal notion within feminism to an idea that is implicitlymanifest in public policy and judicial decisions. For those who wonder how we got to this point, the record in print is extensive. Feminists have not been shy about declaring their aims. A few examples: In the tradition of Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon, Marilyn Frye, a professor at Michigan State University, has written of heterosexuality itself as the foundation of patriarchy and all its forms of oppression. Women in patriarchal cultures, Frye states in Willful Virgin, are "rigorously required to be sexual with and for men." Many other feminist scholars have also unabashedly announced that the aim of women's liberation is "the 13