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- From: billie@camelot.bradley.edu (Eliot Frick)
- Subject: Re: Sexual Harassment
- Message-ID: <billie.722151440@camelot>
- Keywords: obnoxious behavior
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- Organization: The Alexander Skryabin Society
- References: <billie.722046592@camelot> <92Nov18.231951.32498@acs.ucalgary.ca>
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 05:37:20 GMT
- Approved: billie@camelot.bradley.edu
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- In <92Nov18.231951.32498@acs.ucalgary.ca> panlilio@acs.ucalgary.ca (Victor P. Panlilio) writes:
-
- >In article <billie.722046592@camelot> billie@camelot.bradley.edu (Eliot Frick) writes:
-
- >>It is unfortunate, to say the least that the paranoia surrounding "sexual
- >>harassment" has digressed to it's current state. Having been accused of
-
- >Yes, it's unfortunate, isn't it, that more and more women keep
- >getting raped, and that women in the U.S. feel that they have to
- >carry handguns to protect themselves from their dates. Tsk, tsk.
-
- ...and I blame sanctimonious people who think that their views on sexuality
- should be juxtiposed on the whole of society...
-
- >>sexual harassment, for what I thought was harmless flirting (I asked a girl
- >>to kiss me,) I know the lengths that people will go to sequester their
-
- >If this is the case, maybe you had not picked up signals that she
- >did not wish to be kissed, hmmmm? (I speak as a disadvantaged
- >person, since I am extremely nearsighted and am almost blind
- >without my glasses -- funny that I should be a photographer).
-
- I didn't force myself on her. Where have we come that asking for a kiss is
- a crime. Jeez.
-
- >>sexuality from the rest of the world. I have a real problem with accusing
- >>people of sexual harassment for simply making 1st person sexual comments.
-
- >It's all a matter of context. Jennifer complained of receiving
- >*obnoxious* E-mail, and then Mr. Long-Man here posted a reply,
- >presumably in jest, but in the context in which Jennifer was
- >complaining, was hardly appropriate -- to say the least. Is this
- >so difficult to see? Asking someone to have sexual intercourse
- >with you, even in jest, in a public newsgroup, on the Usenet, is
- >equivalent to propositioning someone in a public gathering where
- >explicit sexual requests can be clearly heard. Given the context
- >in which Jennifer posted, this can be construed as harassment,
- >even if it was not intended to be such. I'm inclined to believe
- >that Mr. Long-Man did not anticipate such a vitriolic reaction
- >from me or others on the net, but it would seem that his idea of
- >common decency does not coincide with that of the majority here.
-
- >So even if in your view it may not be harassment, it is crude and
- >vulgar and betrays the poorest possible human judgment, anyway.
-
- Agreed. Poor judgement is as far as I can go. I refuse to call it sexual
- harassment.
-
- >>supercedes mere investigation. It also serves to perpetuate the attitude
- >>(an attitude which I have seen pervade most of American culture,) that
- >>sexuality is a bad thing; and that discussion of sex is even more evil.
-
- >Discussion of sex is not evil if it is done in the context of a
- >neutral power balance. Discussion of sex *is* evil if you are a
- >6'5" 250-pound linebacker holding down a 5'2" 100-pound wisp of a
- >woman and asking her if she wants rear entry while she tries to
- >squirm out from under you and is yelling and screaming for help.
-
- >(actually, in this case, she probably wouldn't *dare* scream...)
-
- >"No" means NO.
-
- I still have a hard time believing that "Jennifer" could have been
- intimidated. She can't get raped by a screen.
-
- >>Talking about sex, even in the most candid of terms is NOT rape. However,
-
- >Again, context. Talking about sex with, say, someone who has been
- >raped, is *different* from talking about sex with someone who is
- >unzipping your fly with one hand and unhooking her bra with her
- >other hand. In the latter case, you usually talk about condoms.
-
- True. But it is still not a crime; Bad taste, lack of tact...maybe.
-
- >>using the threat of loosing one's job or security if sexual demands are not
- >>met is a different story, and the form of "sexual harassment" should be
- >>more aptly named "sexual extortion."
-
- >Yup. Sexual harrassment is when your bottom gets pinched by MOTAS
- >while you stand at the office copier or at the water cooler.
-
- No argument there. I agree fully. Still, physical contact is different
- than simply talking about sex.
-
- >>Eliot Frick
- >>President, The Alexander Skryabin Society.
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >Hmmm. Pardon my ignorance, but who exactly do *you* represent?
-
- Ever heard of the John Birch Society? Nothing like them.
- ..or maybe just like them... It's hard to say.
-
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