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 wont 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 Kings 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 womens 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, womens lingerie and all his buddies laughed.
She said she froze and didnt 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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She's one of the perpetually offended. They never laugh.
Yep angry feminist bitch man hater....
2 things. This is pig behavior by men. Do you want these men slobbering over your daughter in an elevator where she’s trapped? The jokes are innapropriate and unnecessary. She’s there trying to work and do her job. It’s not after-hours. Control yourselves.
Second, she should toughen up. That won’t be the worst thing that ever happens to her. Men are stupid and have to be taught how to act sometimes. Figure out a way to tell him to have more respect for you.
Of course, I don’t know the people involved, but don’t try to pretend that this doesn’t happen all the time.
Men, be more respectful when you’re on the job. Girls, lighten up and figure out a better way to handle it. But hey, that’s just me.
Everyone else there was laughing, that’s what traumatized her. LOLOL
Q: How many feminists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Thats not funny.
lmao....you owe me a screen cleaning!!
What a dumb cluck.
BTW, I thought University was supposed to be full of enlightened liberal men, you know, like liberals Al Franken and Harvey Weinstein and Anthony Weinger and Schneiderman and Bill Cosby and stuff.
Oh wait.
Yeah, what a dumb cluck.
Time to cue up "My Sharona"...
Pic confirms it. Wishful thinking, delusions of adequacy on her part.
It probably needs new batteries.
Liberalism is a chronic, no-cure mental disease.
It must be exhausting to spend every waking moment looking for reasons to be offended, to be so angry all the time.
Like other women have posted, I too would have laughed and not thought anything about the remark.
yeah...sorry to hear that..My condolences to you and your family
Incidentally, a useful rough indication of many women -- the larger and more ornate the earrings, the more (ahem) likely to be buried in Y-shaped coffin, if you get my drift.
She’s a 60+ year old hatchet faced short haired woman. Not a simpering innocent.
She is also a drama queen.
Leave former NY Attorney General Schneiderman out of this, please.
They'll ALL get the vapours.
You'd have thought at least one would have missed it...../s
If you are such a weeping willow that you cannot stand up and say, “Excuse me, I’m offended by that joke” to a fellow professor in an elevator surrounded by witnesses ... you’re proving every argument that women were unfit for responsibility or the vote.
“I can’t think, I can’t speak, unless safely huddled in a lynch mob” is passive-aggressive thinking that enables hysterical mob violence later.
Someone needs to remove the stick and install “humor 101”
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