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- From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
- Subject: Re: Question on sexual harassment
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 10:28:42 GMT
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- Jim Thomas , tk0jut1@niu.bitnet (TK0JUT1@NIU.bitnet) wrote:
- : The past discussions of electronic sexual harassment were
- : informative, but perhaps somebody could expand on an answer to the
- : following question:
- :
- : What recourse would a woman have if a hostile adult (over 21)
- : distributed a gif file (a look-alike image, not a photographic
- : one) of an approximation of her nude, on her back, in a
- : spread-legged position and made it explicitly clear that the
- : graphic intended to be this woman, both by physical features and
- : by labelling?
-
- Different from a drawing or painting?
-
- :
- Where did the jump from scanned images to programs come from.
-
- : If the person claimed to be developing such a program, perhaps
- : embedded in a virus program, under university auspices, would this
- : violate most sexual harassment codes if it were distributed on
- : BBSes (rather than on Usenet)? If he informed the woman of the
- ^^ or it could just as easily be
- she according to your first paragraph!!
- : program via internet from a university account, could this be
- : grounds to invoke university response? (assume that the male and
- ^^^^
- adding this condition may change the situation from the original
- description considering the existance of sexual herassment codes
- which are sexist in either construction (or execution)
-
- : female live in separate states and that the female is unaffiliated
- : with the university).
-
- You don't make much sense...
- (it looks like you are trying to generalise something...)
- :
- : What options might a woman have in such a case?
- (any comprehensive answer to this would run into many pages)
- :
- : Jim Thomas
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