For the women, or even men on this thread, are these incidents this commonplace? I worked in professional and collegiate athletics for decades and never witnessed such a thing. I yelled at a female co-worker over the phone in a manner I’m not proud of (no swearing but I was yelling)about 20 years ago but this stuff is crazy. Is it really this prevalent? I feel like I’ve been living in a cave.
Hell, I was a destroyerman in the US Navy for 10 years and never saw this level of perversion - well, wait . . . there was one time in Hong K - - -
nah, . . .
First of all, Hollywood and politics (also pro sports) are not “the real world”. I think people in those worlds have been treated like royalty for so long that they think the normal rules don’t apply to them. And for the most part, they are correct. They have been getting away with this stuff for so long that they take it for granted.
Second, as far as the rest of the world goes, think about it this way: If 99% of men are decent and normal, but 1% are Frankenpervs, that means that for every 100 men a woman knows, 1 of them is going to do something indecent. Since nearly every woman in the workplace has met at least 100 men, that means that nearly every woman in the workplace has had to deal with this stuff. For the 99% of men, since they aren’t doing it, it seems crazy to think that so many women are claiming to be victims of it. (Sadly, I think it’s more than 1% of men, so it’s even worse, but regardless, you get the idea.)
Third. Yelling at someone on the phone!! You should be shot at dawn. /s Seriously, don’t you think that just about everyone, men and women, have done SOMETHING at some point that they are not proud of? Most of us haven’t raped or robbed a bank or anything on that level, but I’m pretty sure all of us have at least one incident in our past that we would not like to be held up for public scrutiny. In fact, I would go so far as to say that if a person doesn’t have something he/she would be ashamed of, then it’s likely that person is a liberal and has no shame. Either that or a very poor memory. I think the difference between us and liberals is that we are ashamed of something like yelling at a woman on the phone (one time, in our youth) and they are not ashamed of seriously deviant behavior, often chronic and on-going and at an age when they should have been far past “youthful indiscretions” .