Word: joking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...become somewhat of a joke at meetings to mention Crimson commentaries on the UC. Some meetings begin with a laugh, a strained one though, at excerpts read from some article or editorial covering the previous week's meeting. Some chalkboard scraping misquotation is related. A front page article dancingly sidesteps most of a debate, reporting just enough of it to create the opinion in the readers' minds that "Yeah, these guys really are lame...
There have been times at which I have not treated women as well as I should, but I believe that I have never been guilty of harassment. I cannot remember ever having told even a dirty joke in front of a woman. I am a stranger to pornography...
...charges were electrifying the country, Thomas' defenders were rushing to his side. Dolores Rozzi, director of the office of federal operations at the EEOC, worked for Thomas for seven years. Through hundreds of meetings together, she says, she never saw him listen to anyone tell a dirty joke, let alone tell one himself. "People thought he was a little uptight and conservative," says Rozzi. "The word was, 'You have to go to Clarence with clean hands...
Such stories, echoed a thousand, a hundred thousand times last week, helped lawyers explain that sexual harassment is not about civility. It is not about a man making an unwelcome pass, telling a dirty joke or commenting on someone's appearance. Rather it is an abuse of power in which a worker who depends for her livelihood and professional survival on the goodwill of a superior is made to feel vulnerable. "This is not automatically a male-female issue," says Wendy Reid Crisp, the director of the National Association for Female Executives, the largest women's professional association...
...gesture to the brutal assault. It is an interpretation fused to an ideology that places all behavior in the context of male power. In the view of Boston University psychology professor Frances Grossman, "From the guys who wink on the street to the biology professor who tells a sexist joke in class, to the guy who says, 'Hey, baby, let's go out,' to the guy who rapes -- all are of a piece in their role of disempowering women. Men say these are not related behaviors. Flirting and jokes are fine, and rape is bad, they say. But increasingly, sociologists...