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- From: chris@psych.toronto.edu (Chris Hitchcock)
- Newsgroups: soc.feminism
- Subject: Re: harrasment the other way
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 15:07:39 GMT
- Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
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- Sender: muffy@mica.berkeley.edu (Muffy Barkocy)
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- In article <9212172149.AA24193@mica.berkeley.edu> muffy@mica.berkeley.EDU (Muffy Barkocy) writes:
- >They do not constitute sexual harassment. However, if you feel that the
- >atmosphere is negative towards you in areas where you have to work, then
- >it is harassment. There does not seem to be a sexual component,
- >however. The "sexual" means that there is some element of sex (nude
- >pictures, suggestive comments, etc.) in the harassment, not that people
- >of one particular sex are being put down.
-
- I was under the impression that "poisoning the environment" kinds of
- harrassment included comments like "You girls probably won't understand
- this hard stuff". Perhaps it depends on the definition of sexual harrassment
- being used under the circumstances.
-
- Chris Hitchcock.
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