Word: harassement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Something is missing here, something we will never know. But frothing ideology will not tell us: if Clarence Thomas is a conservative, that does not make him a sexual harasser. What he may or may not decide about Roe v. Wade has no bearing upon what Anita Hill claims about his conduct. Sometimes men sexually harass vulnerable women. Women may have predatory agendas too. Not all women are innocent, vulnerable victims. And sometimes men are monsters. Reality is rich and impish and asymmetrical. It laughs at manifestos...
Well, Miss Clark, and all you sexist feminists, I'm here to tell you that I don't make excuses for men who harass or abuse women. Or men who harass or sexually abuse other men. For that matter, I, and many other men, make no excuses for any-one who harasses or sexually abuses another person. And I'm also here to tell you that YOU just...
Susan Webb runs a consulting firm in Seattle that helps companies educate their employees about the issue of harassment. She says men almost always greet her with derision. "So now we're going to find out how to do it" is one reaction. Or, "I've been trying for years to get someone to sexually harass me." Says Webb: "The laughing is not because they are mean or bad, but because they really don't understand it." Part of what fuels the initial jokes, says Webb, is the fear of being blamed for or embarrassed about sexual harassment...
...tapes reveal Nixon in the raw, unimproved by speechwriters, aides or editors. Contrast his statesmanlike published prose on the Soviet Union's "strategic challenge of global proportion, which requires a renewed strategic consciousness" with this typical passage from the tapes about sacking IRS Commissioner Johnnie Walters for refusing to harass Nixon's enemies: "Kick Walters' ass out first, and get a man in there." So damaging are the tapes to the Nixon rehabilitation that Republican Party leaders, who had been considering a Nixon appearance at the 1992 convention, are now rethinking the invitation...
...they sounded too geeky to physically harass me. Nevertheless, it sounded like living with them would be... hell...