It's "common sense" to make your emploees eat baby food, wear diapers, or get spanked on the buttocks with an opposing company's metal-poled yard signs?
They were idiots, they pay. I don't have a problem with that.
R-I-G-H-T!
Never make any joke against any race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, gender, hair color, car make, animals, plants..... For Gods sake, have no dinning outs or dinning ins at the company and ban them in the armed forces. Of course hazing is completely out of the picture! Change our vocabulary and rename “Uranus” and sexual “harassment” since those words sound bad. In fact, lets name it “BCE” since we have to take “Christ” out of our secular perfect little socialist world picture. Why not name it “X-mas” while at it? Oh wait, we already have done that. Let’s begin writing all sentences that reference someone, with "person" or "he/she". I'm going to teach my son about the "person in the moon" tonight, since I don't want him to grow up as a narrow minded bigot like his dad is.
You know what you forget? People are humans, not robots.
The real jerks are not those who make a harmless prank that is somehow institutionally established in some right of passage, but those dorks who knowingly go along with it to just later sue. MOST cases of sexual harassment in the DoD for example never make it past the EEO office since they are bogus. MOST cases are a means to get back because of a bad review, because the female soldier does not like the boss, because LaKiesha heard she can cash in $500,000 if she sues. The whole “I was sexually harassed” or “racially profiled” or “whatever” has become a method to extort something (money/job/performance evaluation etc) for the most part, or somehow get back at someone. Again – MOST cases are flat out bogus.
At US schools we want our sons to be borderline gay! Any act that may be perceived as “manly” is immediately squelched. We don’t want any pranks, rough housing or anything else. Did you hear- At Duke there is a Lacrosse team that is a bit rough and parties hard! OMG! Can you believe that?! I heard there were drunken people there before! OMG! - Com on, this is ridiculous. What was it like when you went to college?
Hint- People will remain people no matter how hard you pretend we are all robots.
If you ever belonged to an organization that is fairly tight (outside of a church group) you’d know that these sort of bonding events are common place. In the military we have dinning ins, and there too things can get rough. And it’s all in good fun AND even NEEDED for the organizations health. Here’s another example: German Fasching. Some could perceive that as offensive too. The only thing that bothers me is that they are to cowardly to make any comments about Islamists, the Koran or Mohammed or even the censorship or cartoon issue, yet rip their mouths open about the US. In it’s essence it’s a good thing and every society at every time and every where does these sort of things. Maybe there is something in the human psyche that needs this? I don’t know, but the Germans do it (Fasching), in New Orleans we do it, Cinqo De Mayo, and and and. Do you think John Belushi invented the Frat house? Do you think he started it? Why do many people go to Vegas? Why do they go to Panama city?
If a woman goes to New Orleans during Mardi Gras, gets tanked, and some drunk guy asks her to show her boobs, should she be offended? If she wants to be part of an organization that behaves this way, if she knowingly goes along with it (voluntarily), if others also get this sort of treatment, if this sort of thing is part of the organizational traditions, what should she get if she –“LATER”- decides that it was wrong? Frankly I’m tired of hearing these sobbing winning weasels cry out and expect all others to bend forward and backwards to accommodate them. “Screw them!”
Right after she don’t get a cent, security should escort her to get her belongings and then show her the door.