Posted on 10/24/2017 5:02:12 AM PDT by Kaslin
No flames from me, your post is exactly right. The hashtag “me too” campaign does just as much good as kneeling for the national anthem or wearing a pussy hat, that is, absolutely nothing.
I guess that, to the FemiNazis, “mild flirting” is “acute sexual harassment?”
I was voted the class flirt in my Senior Class in High School, and I will continue to flirt until I die. If they can’t take a joke, the hellwithem!
I have no use for men who abuse women!
Likewise, I have no use for women who abuse men! And, there does seem to be a lot of that going around, lately!
“Young women found one of the guys particularly attractive in his jeans and we would tell him to walk by again. I think he was somewhat embarrassed and we all laughed. It works both ways.”
I got harassed by women at my first office job in a very similar fashion. I had totally forgotten about it until your post. Wasn’t all that traumatizing... I guess. However those middle aged woman were not my boss and did not have much power over me.
Thus, I'm of the opinion that men who do engage in such behavior are jerks, if not lowlifes.
These women have a good point. The norms of the workplace in civil society should not include such behavior by grown men or women, and I sympathize with the plight of women —or men—who get exposed to this.
The more men who get shamed for their boorishness, the better off society will be. There's just no excuse for it in the workplace, and it shouldn't be swept under the rug.
Having said that, if more women stood up for themselves and nipped such behavior in the bud, so to speak, these men might learn their lesson and their behavior could be extinguished.
Telling women that this is something they just have to "put up with" is a copout, IMHO, because it's sending the message to the men who do it that it's acceptable.
I'm not at all saying that there isn't room for sexual communication in the workplace—after all it's where most romantic or sexual relationships begin—but it can be done properly and improperly, and I'm convinced most men and women know the difference.
So I think that this furor is well-founded, and will ultimately be a healthy thing when it causes a cad to govern himself more appropriately at work—in essence, it conditions him to be less of a cad...
Exactly. He was a lawyer and we were secretaries.
“if “hush money” was in fact, paid, that the women accepted the money.”
There are no winners in much of these cases. The only thing I know, and my top priority lesson to my kids: Keep yourself out of positions of desperation. When you’re in a position of desperation, you’re at the mercy of another’s whims.
And these women’s first issue was working a job that paid so little that they had no nest egg, no other opportunities and no ability to walk on their own. Like 99% of the western world work is just enough to pay their bills and keep them in a latest iphone and $800 a month car payment. Any upset to that and they are in financial ruin.
Like Douglas Adams says in Hitchiker’s Guide: “Many thought that the human race was wrong to descend from the trees in the first place, still others felt it disastrous to even walk out of the oceans and onto the shore.”
Most of these issues can be solved by being a proper and powerful labor force.
My mom told me when she was a young woman she worked in a shoe store and the creepy old boss looked up her skirt when she was stocking a shelf. She quit and never went back, she didn’t go to his hotel room and ask him to cast her in a movie.
“She quit and never went back, she didn’t go to his hotel room and ask him to cast her in a movie.”
PREACH!!!
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