What's With All This Sexual Harassment Stuff Going On?

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Lon

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Is it like a contagious disease?Or did some one just start the thought and others picked up on it. I really can't believe it's to the extent that we are reading about in the press.
 

The press isn't 'inventing' sexual harassment stories - they don't need to. Many of the men have admitted what they were accused of. I think what's being reported is the tip of the iceberg......it's much worse and always has been.
 
Well, I believe "Harvey" started the whole domino effect....since other women or men then felt they could tell their stories .....strength in numbers.
 

I know it's been going on for years and will continue as long as there are men and women on this planet but what good is it to have the media continue to hype it? It was only yesterday that I had some lady pinch my butt in the elevator. What should I do?
 
It's interesting to see the wide variety of things that are being reported and considered sexual harassment.

It makes me think back to some of the inappropriate things that used to happen in our work group. We would have all been fired if our comments and behavior was looked at in the same way as some of the recently reported incidents. I think that we each need to decide for ourselves what is an inappropriate sexual advance and have the confidence to stand up and call the person out or report them when such advances are made to us or in our presence.

It will be interesting to see if any lasting changes come out of these high profile media reports. My fear is that it will just be another case of knocking down some high profile people and after they hit bottom watching the media cover the comeback and redemption.
 
Wonder how much it has to do with $$$$$$$$ Don’t get me wrong SH is totally unacceptable in my eyes
and it all go’s as far back as the Kennedy family from my memory
 
I knew there was always some sort of sexual advances because Men always held the higher position and Women were afraid to report it for fear of losing their jobs. I have not heard so many Women coming out before. Of course I had never heard about sexual abuse by Priests until many years after it was going on. We live in a crazy world.
 
Kadee46 said:
Wonder how much it has to do with $$$$$$$$ Don’t get me wrong SH is totally unacceptable in my eyes
and it all go’s as far back as the Kennedy family from my memory
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Not sure what you mean or what you've heard/read about the Kennedys but they certainly didn't start sexual harassment so let's not point the finger at them. Inappropriate sexual behavior went on for many generations - inside and outside the USA - prior to anyone knowing about the Kennedys.
 
Lon said:
I know it's been going on for years and will continue as long as there are men and women on this planet but what good is it to have the media continue to hype it? It was only yesterday that I had some lady pinch my butt in the elevator. What should I do?
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Do you work for her?

I don't think the media is the problem.
 
Your correct AC I know little about the Kennedy family only what was reported on TV in Australia over many years, .May I ask just how far back do the kennedy’s go I’m not sure with asking Mr Google ...?
We have had several mini series on TV about the scandals that inflicted the family, so that’s all I have to,go on along with TV reports
 
Kadee46 said:
Your correct AC I know little about the Kennedy family only what was reported on TV in Australia over many years, .May I ask just how far back do the kennedy’s go I’m not sure with asking Mr Google ...?
We have had several mini series on TV about the scandals that inflicted the family, so that’s all I have to,go on along with TV reports
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I don't think the Kennedys are the issue or even relevant to the topic. My point is there has been inappropriate sexual behavior for centuries.
 
I worked with a pervert who was supposedly acting crazy because he was going through male menopause or some equally feeble excuse. He sat in his office playing with sex toys all day. None of the women who worked there were safe around him because he thought we existed for him to grab us; the men who owned and ran the company had been enabling the jerk for years.

I warned him if he ever put his hands on me again I was calling the law, but one day I was using the photocopier and he came up behind me and grabbed my breasts. I got away from him, walked over to the phone and called the police. I knew they wouldn't do anything about the ongoing sexual harassment because as we all know boys will be boys, but I knew someone putting his hands on me was assault and I pushed for him to be charged. The cops arrested him and there was quite a kerfuffle with my boss trying to talk me out of it, but I stood my ground. The perv ended up with a record for assault and was given a fairly long probation with the requirement that he undergo intensive therapy. If he reoffended he was headed for jail. I was surprised at the judge because he wasn't into the theory of boys will be boys and made sure the guy adhered to the terms of his probation.

After the arrest I found another job because I realized I hated all of those men for letting him get by with that for years.
 
Smiling Jane said:
Given how much sexual harassment I've personally seen or know about, I think this is only the tip of the iceberg.
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I agree, Jane. It has always been epidemic in the workplace, but most women (and men) were reluctant to say anything about it out of fear for their jobs, or their careers, or that it would be made to look like it was all their fault, or worse.

Anyone who hasn't seen it hasn't been paying attention.
 
It certainly didn't start with the Kennedys -- it's been going on for hundreds of years. Look at the behavior of the European aristocracy towards their "inferiors." Of course, it wasn't called sexual harrassment back then, but a rose by any other name . . . .

Men, old or young, with power (real or assumed) have always preyed on women without it.
 
Butterfly said:
I agree, Jane. It has always been epidemic in the workplace, but most women (and men) were reluctant to say anything about it out of fear for their jobs, or their careers, or that it would be made to look like it was all their fault, or worse.

Anyone who hasn't seen it hasn't been paying attention.
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Absolutely. I was one of those women. Professor/mentor in grad school raped me. If I had said anything, I would have lost my place at a prestigious university, been blackballed elsewhere, no PhD possible. I was one of many.
 
I know when I worked it happened some and management took it seriously. We knew who did it and we looked out for it and tried to stay away from those men. But we knew if there were a problem to report it. I always encouraged my ladies to let me know if there was a problem and I would take care of it in a minute. It was known that I did not put up with any bad behavior towards the ladies in the corporate office.
 
It's all part of rape culture, the belief that men are superior to women and therefore have a right and perhaps even an obligation to prove their superiority. In the workplace, it's sexual harassment. In the streets and on college campuses, it's rape. Victim-blaming is part of rape culture and it's pervasive. I've read some truly despicable things on social media, some of it supposedly written by women.
 
This touching and whatever by horny men is never the blame for the ladies that dress in seductive clothing and make up and act in teasing ways. Short and too tight skirts and crossed legs when sitting. Blouses that are cut all the way to the belt line. Baiting the males with dress and comments then crying to the management about comments and whistles and touching. As has recently turned out for one TV broadcaster it seemed almost to be a one way trip to being a millionaire.

In politics it has been used to reduce one parities strength in the Congress. Recently the opposing party has had a run on some of their Congressional persons. So now I expect that political tool for running 'bad' guys out of their jobs may have run its road and will now end.

Folks that have read my posts in the past know that I want 'parties' to be ignored in our Congress and make the elected use the Constitutions rules of electing as your electors have wanted. There is nothing in the Constitution that supports the party to be our directors at all.

Bottom line is that as long as their are seductive women and horny men there will be some not so nice things happening.

This is not saying that the courts should not protect the ladies from out of line men's actions or of allowing ladies to try to turn their efforts into dressing and acting such that men's actions do get aroused. This out of line activity does have more than just men chasing powerless women as some want to portray it. But that is also one way these things do happen.
 

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