[gonna be singin' "Prettiest Cop On The Block" in my head all day, now]
Posted on 04/27/2021 9:53:45 AM PDT by rickmichaels
A Tennessee CEO was fired after he was accused of harassing a teenage boy for wearing a dress to his prom.
Former VisuWell executive Sam Johnson, 46, was filmed telling the boy he looked like an 'idiot' at the prom near Nashville on Saturday.
He has denied the allegations, despite being caught on camera making the remarks.
The boy, Dalton Stevens, 18, told NBC News he wore the dress as a statement to prove that 'clothing is really gender-less' and 'that it has no meaning', in an interview on Monday.
The Franklin high school senior told the broadcaster he was harassed by Johnson while taking pictures with his boyfriend Jacob Geittmann, who later posted the exchange on TikTok.
'I explained [why I was wearing the dress] to him and he continued to just call me names and just follow me', Stevens explained.
He said the young couple first noticed Johnson making 'homophobic' comments within the pairs earshot while they were taking pictures at the Harpeth Hotel in downtown Franklin.
The telemedicine CEO then approached Stevens and Geittmann and questioned why the 18-year-old had chosen to wear a dress.
Johnson later allegedly told Stevens 'you have hair on your chest, you shouldn't be wearing a dress'.
Geittmann then took out his phone and started filming the exchange, during which Johnson said he thought the 18-year-old senior looked 'disgusting'.
In the footage, a clearly distressed Stevens can he heard telling Johnson: 'I chose what I want to wear so you can f*** off'.
While Geittmann is filming, Johnson apparently tries to knock the phone out of his hand, but ends up hitting Stevens.
Onlookers attempt to intervene, pleading with Johnson to stop, saying: 'It's just prom. It's kids, it's a bunch of kids. Come on, dude.'
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Back in my day (50’s) my buds would have dragged me out into the alley and used me for a lawn dart.
[gonna be singin' "Prettiest Cop On The Block" in my head all day, now]
Do the schools have bullies anymore?
The "statement" was stupid but he has every right to make it. The CEO has the same right to make an observation about the kids antics. So I wonder why only one is being cancelled for exercising his rights?
I don’t care if the kid was wearing a dress, a space suit, or a Superman outfit. The kid wasn’t doing anything illegal. Was Johnson related to that boy? If not, Johnson should have kept his big mouth shut.
lol!
One the one hand I think the CEOs personal opinions on the matter should not warrant him being fired.
And if it had all had been a one-off unintended encounter, with his mere expression about boys wearing dresses, I think that should have been it.
However, if the report is true about the CEO intentionally seeking an encounter with the boy, and following him to continue making comments, then that is where I would draw the line on what the CEO did.
Still, I don’t think he should have been fired.
His company should have only asked him to apologize for creating the incident, intentionally, without demanding any apology for his views about boys in dresses.
i think he should have shut up.
I’ll never snitch, though.
"I told you not to have him build an ark, Dad."
Incrementalism:
Belief in or advocacy of change by degrees; gradualism.
“How did we get to this point ? We got to this point because there was no pushback. Little by little social perversion was pushed upon us and under threat of being called intolerant bigots, we sat back and watched it happen.”
Exactly. We got to this point because no one would speak up. From school board meetings to corporate board meetings, people refused to speak up and challenge bad ideas and a toxic ideology. A society of apathetic cowards.
Props to him, I bet most people would laugh at or think odd of a guy in a dress but are simply afraid to anymore.
In the future, keep your mouth shut, surreptitiously get the kid's address, find him and club him like a baby Harp seal.
Off camera.
Because it's ALL about getting Neanderthals like you fired.
“While Geittmann is filming, Johnson apparently tries to knock the phone out of his hand, but ends up hitting Stevens.”
That will do it.
His words don’t matter.
Hitting someone does matter.
He just lost a good job and it is his fault.
Should have gone with the robots. That free will thing is a bust.
Even though such onerous behavior was very rare when I was young, I decided 45 years ago to always be self-employed. It was the best decision I ever made, leading to many good things including an early, well-financed retirement.
“You wear an earring, shouldn’t you also be wearing a dress?”
Heh.
Heh, heh. Yep.
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