Posted on 05/09/2018 6:25:43 PM PDT by BBell
"In my view, this is not only a frivolous complaint but one that is damaging to serious issues of discrimination and misogyny."
Students on the campus of Merrimack College. –Jim Davis / The Boston Globe, File
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A male political theory professor said Friday he won’t apologize to a female gender studies professor for a joke about “ladies’ lingerie” he made while both were riding in a crowded elevator. The public spat comes amid heightened sensitivity to sexual misconduct propelled by the #MeToo movement.
Professor Ned Lebow, who teaches political theory at King’s College London, told The Associated Press that he has refused to apologize because he did nothing wrong and because a complaint filed by Professor Simona Sharoni against him with the International Studies Association is “frivolous.”
Sharoni, a professor of women’s and gender studies at Merrimack College in Massachusetts, said in a complaint she filed last month that she was standing near the elevator at a San Francisco hotel and she offered to press the elevator buttons when Lebow “said with a smile on his face, ‘women’s lingerie’ and all his buddies laughed.”
She said she froze and didn’t confront him. As the men walked out of the elevator, the only other woman in the elevator turned to her and told her maybe they should have spoken up. They said it is no longer acceptable to make such jokes.
“As a survivor of sexual harassment in the academy, I am quite shaken by this incident,” Sharoni wrote.
Hours after the April 5 encounter, she filed a complaint with Mark Boyer, the executive director of ISA, which was hosting the annual conference on international relations studies.
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Was it the smile that got her panties in a wad or did she think he should have requested “men’s lingerie”?
Yeah, it’s so difficult to navigate normal conversations with the opposite sex. Who can tell the difference between innocent remarks like “ladie’s lingerie” and “Great presentation the other day”? Crazy how women just randomly take offense to anything. Must have been that time of the month, amirite?
I wonder if he did this on purpose to jerk her chain.
Are you kidding? I’m a girl, and we used to make the same lame joke back in the 70-80’s on any elevator as it stopped along the way. “Polsky’s, 4th floor, lingerie. (Ohio)
It’s like saying “ take my wife, please.” An old fashion, used to be funny comment.
NO APOLOGIES. ENOUGH. I wish I could send this guy an attaboy for refusing to be pushed around.
Sounds like the opening to a certain Bad Boys of Boston song.
Well hello Mr Tyler
Of course you would have...lol...cause you'd have followed it by saying....Sure!...but you're buying!
(been there done that...cost me a fortune...but I learned my lesson)
Looks like somebody has reached the age where she’s invisible and bitter.
I looked her up too. Like I said, A real piece of work.
You beat me. Lol
It was San Francisco! What’s so unusual about a male wanting to go to the lingerie department?
I don’t think that is a joke on the woman. Womens lingerie is a department in a department store. Its a request that could have been made 40 years ago when elevator operators existed. It has nothing to do with the women pressing the button. Its a joke she just doesn’t get. And he could have said it with all men there as well. Its not about her.
Muh,muh,muh,muh, my-eee Sharoni
your comment is naive in my experience.
The opening of “Are You Being Served”
So. What.
I’ve heard of that show but never seen it. What’s in the opening?
a gentleman would not have made the comment to begin with.<<<
Nope..But a true gentleman could have made it and make her feel comfortable....
But for some gentleman its better to be seen and not heard...They don’t have the knack...
Was that the Laughing Academy, professor? I saw your picture.
Public intellectual ??...lol..is that something like a flasher?..what the hell does she do in private??
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