09-29-2004, 12:31 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Back in the US finally
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By the way, you were right to circle the wagons...I'm actually an Indian...
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*laughing* Must be the good Wisconsin farm stock in me....either that or the 1/4 Glaswegian scrapper.
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But I'm intrigued...what was it about my first post that made you feel like the women who wanted that guy fired were in need of defence?
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Hmmm....totally fair question. I think I felt there was an implication that any problem women had with men expressing their sexuality at work was "in our heads" so to speak. The idea that girls are just making a fuss about nothing. I do think there is a real reason why they might object, and that any objections raised wouldn't necessarily be for the reasons you described. All too often real cases of sexual harrassment (NOT what you were setting out, but it's around the same trigger) are dismissed as women who can't take a joke. I wanted to try to explain that they may HAVE a point, just not the one you were suggesting. And I think I felt the way you presented it was dismissive of ANY objections.
Does that make more sense?
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