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Post by joethenuts on Jan 11, 2018 11:34:14 GMT
today we had michael douglas lash out at an employee 33 years ago, in melbourne australia we had the lord mayor step down until enquiry , he was acused by this female worker. but if you read her tex messages and the info available to the papers , it looks like she was stalking the lord mayor offering him holidays functions and even at 1 stage she tryed to change her surname to the same as the lord mayor, it now looks like she was prob upset that he kept saying no and wanted revenge, now i am a person that looks at both sides, this is what i see hapening and speaking to some business men , women will now be overlooked going for jobs , too hard basket to employ females and males at the same place. there is a story nearly every day .
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Post by sherri on Jan 11, 2018 22:33:53 GMT
It's a difficult area as often there is only one person's word against another.
In the case of the Lord Mayor, I agree, I think this woman was stalking him & she is the one who should face charges for wrongful accusations.
Some of the cases such as Harvey Weinstein & Rolf Harris, I think there has been enough come out to know that they were at fault. I think the trouble with money and fame is it gave some people a sense they could do anything. Some of them still think a bit that way, look at the American stars who brought their 2 pet dogs into Australia without declaring them.
But with sexual harassment, the goal posts have changed. Minor things that were allowed to pass 30 or 40 years back, a man could now be in trouble for. I suppose some of the men who acted that way back then thought it was acceptable as they never got in trouble but now some of the women are feeling empowered to mention it. With the major things, some men just thought their fame would allow anything.
When it comes to jobs, I think it will depend on what area a woman is applying in. I've heard that sexual harassment is the worst in high powered business environments. The woman I was talking to had spent a decade working there & said the sort of male there was power & money hungry, trying to climb & aggressive with it. But the women in that environment were a bit that way too. She wasn't the sort who would have put up with any nonsense, I could tell.
From what I have read, the trouble can also be in the services with bullying even to new males, so they will need to stomp on that.
All in all, I don't think it will affect employment too much in the long run but we'll see a change in workplaces in that anyone (male or female) who complains will probably get a hearing, the emploers will be too nervous to brush them off. Might see people moved or sacked more often.
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Post by DADDY O on Jan 17, 2018 12:46:15 GMT
It's a difficult area as often there is only one person's word against another. I agree Sherri. I was raped once myself. When I was in high school I arranged a date with a "nice" little girl. I picked her up in my 1949 Mercury. We went to dinner and then I made a critical error in judgment.......I took her for a ride up Scenic Drive in El Paso, which is some 2 to 3 thousand feet above El Paso on Franklin Mountain.....a hell of a view. While there, she grabbed me, threw me in the back seat and had her way with me. I felt so defiled. It took all of the strength left in me (which wasn't a lot) to crawl back to the front seat to drive this crazy girl back home. When we got there, she got out, slammed the door and came around to my side to say "Thanks for Nothing". What's a Lad to do? I thought I should report this to the police, but didn't want to go through the embarrassment of it.....thus, I kept silent. My only life long problem with this is........every time I think about it, I develop this very wide smile on my face.  |
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