Posted on 10/18/2004 6:43:11 PM PDT by wagglebee
People, YOU ALL MISSED IT!!! THIS IS THEIR NEW ANITA HILL! Straight out of their twelve year old playbook! They ruined Clarence Thomas, now they're out for O'Reilly! ANYTHING to discredit an influential Republican! It's all a scam!
and as far as the complaints about sexual remarks at the water cooler leading to sexual harassment charges, my advice is this: guys, don't make sexual remarks in mixed company. is it really necessary to make them?
let the women make the sexual remarks, and just laugh, but don't take it further.
this will avoid most law suits.
most women aren't looking to charge anyone with sexual harassment, but there are some nuts out there who will do so. if you make sexual remarks, you are setting yourself up.
I agree with you. The whole culture of 'sensitivity' hasn't thought this out, and that leads people to all sorts of odd reactions. If people behaved more maturely, it wouldn't happen.
As for poor Moe in accounting, well, all I'm saying is that his boorishness should be sitigmatized and discouraged, but the idea that it somehow literally becomes a 'federal case' is absurd and doesn't give women much credit for taking care of themselves.
And the UPS Guys have all the fun! ;-)
"It's all a scam!"
Yes it is. It is total and complete WAR, launched by a criminal organization with lots of global money being poured into this election. Always look at the big picture with these clowns.
i think women should be able to walk around naked without having anybody stare at them.
but seriously, its not that women often invited, they dont do much to stop the gawking.
As for poor Moe in accounting, well, all I'm saying is that his boorishness should be sitigmatized and discouraged, but the idea that it somehow literally becomes a 'federal case' is absurd and doesn't give women much credit for taking care of themselves.
Some women are afraid to, especially if the one making the remark is a superior.
And the UPS Guys have all the fun! ;-)
Women love a man in uniform. Besides, he delivers good stuff such as new clothing and books, but not bills!
After being fed the fantasy, these men are expected to retain a grasp of reality. When they don't, well, there's a word for that.
The lawyer will take this one assertation and destroy her lawsuit with it. How hard is it to hang up a phone ?
Or will she claim phone sex rape ?
By O'Reilly standards she is a goddess.
"How hard is it to hang up a phone ?"
I say a woman should hang up the phone.
My brother says if a woman is getting a salary (just a guess) of $125,000 a year, and her boss is the one harassing, it is harder to hang up the phone. Most people might just believe the boss and think she's making it all up.
Hopefully, no matter what the salary, most women would hang up the phone.
Crudeness is what should not be accepted. One way or another humans try for sex, male v female and reverse (I am excluding Democratic supporters of certain persuasions.) The crudeness comes in with promotions, IMHO. People of the same ilk promote others of that ilk, If the basis for promotion is sex, crudeness etc, then that is perpetuated in the corporate culture.
I would also suspect that the corporation may have rewarded other "alchies", flirtatious females etc. I am sure that the corporate culture in the entity was not acceptable to a number of people who were not promoted, but who merited a promotion They did not qualify in that corporate atmosphere / culture. I think she did the right thing in leaving, only she took too long. (BTW An office is not the place for a romance.)
Thank you -- I also enjoy a good compliment.
I recall reading an interesting anecdote about John Wayne. In one of his last films, the script called for his character to curse. He indignately and profanely refused. John Wayne, in real life, was a profane man but he also was of the old school: it was one thing for a man to curse behind closed doors, in the presence of other men, but not in public.
That's always the problem with the hypothetical scenerio. The brother/father/boyfriend/husband is always able to kick the offenders ass in these scenerios. In real life, I saw two brothers, big guys even, learn a lesson in pain, blood and humility when the biker they were going to teach a lesson for comments to their sister literally tore them up swinging a heavy belt buckle.
Then to add insult to injury, the brothers were arrested in the ER for coming after the guy in the first place. The whole incident was a recurring party joke for at least a year.
Best that the gentle people remember that they're gentle people and not try to be badasses.
I didn't say that the guys would come over and kick the crap out of the guy, just that the woman would say that they would.
I wasn't suggesting at all that it would come to that, but that it is part of the convention of the woman putting a brutish sort in his place.
Marry an import; there is a hell of a lot more of them than Yankee BS, and they love children. Buh bye!
Yep, no doubt about it. Males should start behaving like gentlemen. Women should start putting boorish men in their place, too.
No lipstick, tiny ear rings, turtleneck, jacket, hair pulled back...is she trying to look like a butch?
I'll bet she's pissed about her last pay raise.
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