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- From: mikep@sr.hp.com (Mike Powell)
- Subject: Re: Thoughts on Sexual Harassment
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 02:46:16 GMT
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- :
- : BTW, I watched a PBS "workshop" a couple of months ago where a lawyer
- : stated that any unwanted touching by anyone can be considered sexual
- : harassment. In other words, a hetero woman can put her hand on the
- : shoulder of another hetero woman and if the touchee doesn't like it,
- : asks that it not be done, yet it continues, it is sexual harassment.
- : The fact that the toucher doesn't have a sexual interest in the
- : touchee doesn't appear to matter.
- :
-
- Utterly stupid. This lawyer is describing harassment.
- Which is not to say that this lawyer couldn't actually
- convince a court that such a situation actually is
- sexual harassment.... (which would indicate a utterly stupid
- court) but that as a concept... the idea that *any* touching
- is somehow sexual (which is the implication). I suppose that
- according to this lawyer, if you hold out your hand to someone
- more than once (as a suggestion to shake hands) and that the
- 'suggestion' is an unwanted attempt at initiating some nasty
- touching, then that too is sexual harassment. ug.
-
- -Mike-
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