(AGI) Washington - Almost half of US students has suffered sexual harassment at school. An experience that affected their social life and studying performance. That's what a survey, carried out by the Association of American University Women on a sample of 1,965 high school students aged 11-18, reveals.
Sunday, November 13, 2011
HALF OF US STUDENTS SEXUALLY HARASSED AT SCHOOL
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Horse-s#!t.
ReplyDeleteThis is like the infamous "1 in 4 women raped at college" stupidity, wherein "he lied to get in my pants" "he promised he'd call, he didn't" or "I regretted it later" was counted as "rape."
Most schools today are like most corporate offices -- boys are so scared of a false accusation that they're too scared to even SPEAK to girls, but then that's "excluding them" and counts as "sexual harassment."
I once got in trouble on the job because some fem-nazi bimbo didn't like something I said in a conversation... We were discussing divorce and I noted that in the past children were considered "property" of the father - that his responsibility for their care was considered entitlement to their labor on the family farm. Someone interjected that women were "property" as well, and I explained that this was not so. In reality, they had the legal status of children -- the husband was responsible for what they did just as he was responsible for his child, and thus he had the right to discipline his wife as he could a child so long as the discipline didn't cross the line into abuse.
This cogent statement of historical fact "offended" her, and I was up on charges for "creating a hostile work environment." It all eventually blew over - management had the sense to placate her without punishing me. I thought I'd been able to put it all behind me, until she filed another complaint -- this time against myself and the ENTIRE group of guys who usually gathered for lunch.
It seems that when she entered the room, our conversations would stop -- and this "made her uncomfortable."
We discussed this (outside work) and all agreed that we'd handle it the same way - in solidarity - by "confessing" the ABSOLUTE TRUTH that we *DID* stop talking when she walked in -- because we had no way of knowing what innocuous remark might "offend" and land us all in danger of losing our jobs and suffering serious damage to future career prospects!
It wasn't anything we'd "conspired" to do - it was simply the logical outcome of charging someone with an egregious violation for discussing *HISTORY*!!
Once again we all were forced to "play the game" as they treated HER as if they took her claims seriously while privately agreeing with us that it was pure stupidity. With the promise from management that there would be no record, we agreed -- which given the alternative was the only real option...
This sort of CRAP must *STOP*.
A single remark (or the lack thereof) isn't "harassment."