Posted on 12/16/2017 6:55:08 AM PST by blam
A female Democratic lawmaker on Wednesday reportedly said women who wear revealing clothing often create an “invitation” to sexual harassment. “I saw a member yesterday with her cleavage so deep it was down to the floor,” Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), 71, told fellow Democrats during a caucus private meeting meant to discuss sexual harassment issues, according to Politico. “And what I’ve seen … it’s really an invitation.”
Politico’s unnamed sources said, “the comments left many others in the room stunned.”
“Maybe I’ll get booed for saying this, but many companies and the military [have] a dress code,” Kaptur reportedly said. “I have been appalled at some of the dress of … members and staff. Men have to wear ties and suits.”
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I’m gonna start walking around with my fly open.
Marcy is usually a blabbering idiot but, if one takes the full context of her comments into account, makes, for her, unusually good sense.
I don’t see how people laughing is going to increase work productivity...
I dunno about “inviting sexual harassment” but a woman who’s dressed up to look “hot” should reasonably expect that people are going to notice and likely comment on it.
Democrat Talaban!
“I’m gonna start walking around with my fly open.”
Walk backwards and you would be trolling.
I was just gonna say that is what Dustin Hoffman and Harvey Weinstein did. Should they not have done that??? Lots of revealing in women’s fashion today.
Kaptur is an odd duck in the Democrat lineup. She is reliably leftist when it comes to a vote, but over the years she has occasionally said things that were not 100% PC.
I am not sure I entirely disagree with this.
We used to handle such things through social stigma. The problem is that now there are almost no commonly accepted taboos in matters of male female interaction.
When deliberately appealing to another’s base desires, do not be surprised at corresponding base reflexes.
Harassment & abuse is not excused, but if you don’t want trouble don’t invite it.
Modesty (in this context) is a Christian virtue for a reason.
I don’t know if invite is the best word, but dressing in a provocative manner certainly puts one at risk. Women instinctively know this. They certainly are well aware that dressing in a provocative way has the desired effect of “provoking” attention.
Good for this woman to speak the truth.
She’s not wrong. I don’t agree with her stances on anything else I’ve read, but she’s not wrong about this. That it was even controversial is a sign of how stupid women have gotten.
If Marcy wore a thong only it would cause eyes to avert.
...and some may act on it, even wrongfully. Go figure.
I’m all for putting burqa’s on the DemoRat wumins. It would be an environmentally friendly plus.
She’s half-right. She’s wrong to say that wearing revealing clothing invites harassment. That blames the victim. But she’s right about the value of a dress code.
>>I dunno about “inviting sexual harassment” but a woman who’s dressed up to look “hot” should reasonably expect that people are going to notice and likely comment on it.
The standard for sexual harassment today begins at “people are going to notice” and “likely comment on it” is definitely going to get a man a trip to HR.
> She is reliably leftist when it comes to a vote, but over the years she has occasionally said things that were not 100% PC. <
I’ll bet that has something to do with her age (71). She didn’t get the full PC indoctrination that today’s young lefties are getting.
“...and some may act on it, even wrongfully. Go figure.”
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And in this day and age a wolf whistle or even just saying “you look great in that dress” can be construed as “sexual harassment”. Oy.
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