[Vaquero]

Sorry boys...no more horse play....nanny state weenies say we can loose our jobs.....

(I did a search but did not find this at FR)

[EarthBound]

This should be an interesting thread.

[Chuck54]

This is a "you gotta be kidding me" alert.

I could tell you this was going to happen when major companies starting paying out astronomical amounts of money for sexual harassment.

Was bound to happen.

[Izzy Dunne]

Well, it IS from "hotjobs.yahoo.com"...

[dead]

"There's no question this is not only a growing category of claims, but also a large societal problem of which we are just starting to see the tip of the iceberg,"

It's not too soon to panic, is it?

[Brilliant]

"it's rare for a man to file charges against a female coworker or supervisor"


In that case, we've identified another opportunity for a growth area for the trial lawyers.

[Beth528]

Then there should be suits against the fags that are Harassing these men...I could think of lots more to do to these perverts but it would get me into trouble..

[Red Badger]

I've never been sexually harassed at work, male or female. I guess nobody likes me..............

[wku man]

Hank Hill? Is that you?

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[swain_forkbeard]

"...a record number of men reported being harassed by male colleagues..."

"Although the statistics don't reveal whether the alleged harassers of men also are male..."

Are we supposed to take this slopthink seriesly!!!?????!!!!

[Quilla]

I'm a female that shares a restroom with a male engineer in my office. He walked into the restroom after returning from picking up a new pair of glasses (they were his first bifocals). In a minute, I could hear him through the door exclaiming, "Man, I'm gonna like these glasses!" The next day I brought in a pair of binoculars from home and hung the in the restroom. They're still hanging there today. Is that considered harassment? ;-)

[Yo-Yo]

This ranks right up there with "where were those hot teachers when I was in school."

[Blueflag]

I think it's a case of 'what's good for the goose is good for the gander' or 'tit for tat' (no pun intended.)

When, as a responsible adult male, you have to watch EVERYTHING you do and say, AND you have to go through yearly re-certs on how to treat people/ deal with people/ what is harassment, what is sexual discrimination ... it wears on you.

Fine. Somebody finally pulls your chain, you react by using the very system that was indeed out to get you.

Some years ago, before running my own businesses, I worked for a global company, based in the US. I frankly got tired of basically being told 'because you're a male, you're a risk.' I had to watch every word, document every meeting, etc. This at the same time there were special programs for women, openly gender-based advocacy programs - gender-based affirmative action programs, if you will. Finally one day I had had enough. I informed my EVP (who I worked for) that "if **I** told that joke, I could be fired. Don't you tell it either." The resentment got the better of me and I was outwardly angry. I was just friggin fed up.

So, not all of these EEOC suits are 'nancy-boys' lookin' for money. Some may just be regular guys who figger it's their day.

IMHO.

Anyway

[lilylangtree]

Give queers power and they're just as destructive as heteros.

[Basheva]

After reading this thread I will never sexually harass men again.

Never.

Not at work.

Ok - so, I'm retired.

And I'm married.

We met at work - he definitely sexually harassed me into going out to lunch with hin, then a Saturday night date, then an engagement and then it got worse - marriage.

We've been harassing together ever since.

[Daaave]

JOSEPH ONCALE, PETITIONER v. SUNDOWNER OFFSHORE SERVICES, INCORPORATED

[March 4, 1998]

"On several occasions, Oncale was forcibly subjected to sex-related, humiliating actions against him by Lyons, Pippen and Johnson in the presence of the rest of the crew. Pippen and Lyons also physically assulted Oncale in a sexual manner, and Lyons threatened him with rape."

"When asked at his deposition why he left Sundowner, Oncale stated “I felt that if I didn’t leave my job, that I would be raped or forced to have sex.”

If I remember this right, Mr. Oncale claimed that these men held him and humped him in the shower, without penetration.

supct.law.cornell.edu

[q_an_a]

As Debra would say, "Idoits." This story is about GAY advances on men not horse play or falling in love with a co-worker. Try reading before jumping to the wrong conclusion.

[Xenalyte]

"There's no question this is not only a growing category of claims, but also a large societal problem of which we are just starting to see the tip of the iceberg," says Riki Wilchins, executive director of the Gender Public Advocacy Coalition, a nonprofit group based in Washington, D.C.

"Social," Riki darling, "social."

And before y'all start posting definitions of "societal" to prove that some dictionary somewhere recognizes it, I dare you to tell me how "societal" differs from "social."

Since it doesn't, always opt for the shorter word.

[JoeSixPack1]

OK,, who here hasn't had to boof their female dean at college to stop the harrassement?

Hands........?

Oh, so it was just me huh?

[MarkL]

That's just icky!

But, this is time for a joke...

"Why is it that when a man talks dirty to a woman, it's sexual harassment, but when a woman talks dirty to a man, it's $6.99 a minute?"

Mark

[Old Professer]

This is like any disease that suddenly becomes popularized then goes to a mini-epidemic of diagnosis; only in this case what you see is a new boldness on the part of the newly freed libido of the now-liberated sexually repressed.

I never have understood why the whole sexual harrassment issue became a matter for litigation instead of a basis for termination or a good, old-fashioned fight in the alley.