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To: yldstrk

The point of Paul’s stupid comments on sex harrassment have to do with him telling women to quit their jobs if they don’t like being verbally or physically harrassed. As someone who had to quit jobs during the wild and crazy 70s (the peak of the sexual revolution) I can tell you it’s not so easy to get another job - especially when you have to pay your rent and put food on the table. And if you think in the private sector you can slap or hit your boss and everything will be happily resolved, then you are living in cloud cuckoo-land.

Paul also shows his appalling ignorance when he suggests that policemen are hauled in when some dope in the workplace makes a suggestive remark. In all my work years I’ve never seen anything like that. Most women deal very well with stupid remarks. But they don’t like being harrassed or touched by another employee.


4 posted on 01/02/2012 7:36:57 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein

so don’t slap them, point at them and laugh


6 posted on 01/02/2012 7:38:45 AM PST by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: miss marmelstein

ask them “don’t you have a wife at home?” “What’s her phone number.” They will get it.


7 posted on 01/02/2012 7:40:24 AM PST by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: miss marmelstein
"The point of Paul’s stupid comments on sex harrassment have to do with him telling women to quit their jobs if they don’t like being verbally or physically harrassed. As someone who had to quit jobs during the wild and crazy 70s (the peak of the sexual revolution) I can tell you it’s not so easy to get another job - especially when you have to pay your rent and put food on the table. And if you think in the private sector you can slap or hit your boss and everything will be happily resolved, then you are living in cloud cuckoo-land."

Coming from a doctor, this just confirms my misgivings on Paul, the loon!

It's the harrasser, not the harrassee, who should be looking for another job.

This will not be received well by women.

8 posted on 01/02/2012 7:43:58 AM PST by PALIN SMITH (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.)
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To: miss marmelstein

the law is so vague that ANYTHING can be construed as sexual harassment... the following is not sexual harassment, but is considered so under the law:

brushing up against someone in a crowed hallway while trying to get by....

overhearing an off colored joke ( why are you eavesdropping?)...

taking a look at something that has been put on display.....

asking someone out on a date ( only once is allowed )..

positive comments on the way a woman looks ( my, you look nice today )...

all of the above can land you a lawsuit and/or lose your job...sexual harassment claims are 90% bogus, or filed by incompetent workers looking for a paycheck..( I know, because I had to defend myself against a pregnant woman who filed a complaint against me, only to have the investigation prove she was a bald faced damn liar, and she got to keep her job!!!!)


10 posted on 01/02/2012 7:49:00 AM PST by joe fonebone (Project Gunwalker, this will make watergate look like the warm up band......)
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To: miss marmelstein
The point of Paul’s stupid comments on sex harrassment have to do with him telling women to quit their jobs if they don’t like being verbally or physically harrassed.

I think you missed his point.
He's against the Federal Gov't making laws restricting freedoms. He says that if is physical harrassment, then call the cops as there are already laws on the books to cover assaults. If you work in an enviornment where there is (in your opinion) offensive verbal dialogue, then bring it up with management and/or go work where you feel more comfortable. It is a free (somewhat) country and you have the right to stay or go - but don't create a law everytime someone is offended.

13 posted on 01/02/2012 7:51:06 AM PST by Riodacat (And when all is said and done, there'll be a hell of a lot more said than done......)
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To: miss marmelstein; yldstrk
The point of Paul’s stupid comments on sex harrassment have to do with him telling women to quit their jobs if they don’t like being verbally or physically harrassed. As someone who had to quit jobs during the wild and crazy 70s (the peak of the sexual revolution) I can tell you it’s not so easy to get another job - especially when you have to pay your rent and put food on the table.

What about other forms of bad behavior? The manager that demands excessive unpaid overtime? The screaming bully? There are lots of ways that the workplace can become unpleasant to work in, and men have always had to either put up with it, demand the unpleasantness cease, or get another job.

27 posted on 01/02/2012 8:07:03 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: miss marmelstein
But they don’t like being harrassed or touched by another employee.

Sorry they don't "like" it. Not "liking" something isn't a cause to involve the federal government. And, no, it isn't easy to get another job, but that isn't a reason to involve the government, either.

Now, if the touching is sexual, there are laws to deal with assault.

47 posted on 01/02/2012 8:52:36 AM PST by BfloGuy (The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.)
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