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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 13:02:08 EST
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- From: jlbugg@UCCS.EDU
- Subject: RE: Anita Hill
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- Sybil, thanks for your words. I have something of my own to share for
- those of you who don't "believe" Anita Hill. Prior to grad school I worked
- as an administrative assistant at two separate companies (Ball Aerospace
- and Schlage Lock) and at both places I was "harrassed" by all legal terms
- but did nothing... and here's why. At Ball, the sexual conotations took
- place between me and my direct supervisor who was married. One day when I was
- typing and he was in my officei moved my chair and my skirt which was far too
- short showed about the bottom half inch of my stockings - not pantyhose and he
- saw them. No big deal - we kind of laughed about it. But when I moved to a
- new
- department, he actually sent me a life sized poster through interoffice mail of
- some model wearing stockings with the hand written caption "Does she or doesn't
- she." At Schlage, one of the married managers would rub my shoulders while I
- was typing - which made me uncomfortable but didn't make me that upset. After
- I left that job, they through me a going away party at which he grabbed my -
- guess what - in front of about 5 people.
-
- Now, I don't consider myself to be a victim and if anything, I may have been
- just a little responsible for at least the first episode (I was young). But
- neither of these men frightened me physically, I didn't want to make a fuss
- and I needed those jobs which meant that I needed to get along and "pick
- my battles." AND NEITHER OF THOSE MEN WERE BEING APPOINTED TO THE SUPREME
- COURT. Anita Hill wasn't asking for compensation - she wasn't playing the
- victim. She was trying to help her country understand that the honor of
- our judicial system was at stake.
-