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originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
Here is a little update, now Schlussel is claiming that she was not harassed:
Despite Reports, Fmr Fox Guest Now Claims She Was Never Sexually Harassed by Sean Hannity
originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
originally posted by: ManBehindTheMask
His theory is there is a purge happening, and they are looking at taking out the "conservative" representatives at FOX news and replace them with A-political, or completely un-political people........
I might actually watch a news channel that played it neutral and just reported the facts instead of appealing to one side or the other.
originally posted by: ManBehindTheMask
If the charges against these two are TRUE then more power to the victims, however the way this is all playing out, and how it is all being approached.........seems........off.......
originally posted by: Sillyolme
a reply to: JDmOKI
No I'm not. Where did I say we were fragile creatures?
Don't try to change this to be about me.
I'm a strong woman.
I owned my own store for many years. I started as a single teen mother with everything against my possibility of success. This was in the seventies. I retired two years ago with a few million in the bank. I worked my butt off. Had to have my father sign a business loan for me because I'm a woman and the bank was reluctant to give women business loans back then.
I've also worked for other people. Mostly while I built my customer base.
I know what sexual harassment is and what flirtatious behavior is. I'm not a little girl.
You're trying to marginalize my experiences. Why? What do you gain?
"The public relations industry, which essentially runs the elections, is applying certain principles to undermine democracy which are the same as the principles that applies to undermine markets. The last thing that business wants is markets in the sense of economic theory. Take a course in economics, they tell you a market is based on informed consumers making rational choices. Anyone who’s ever looked at a TV ad knows that’s not true. In fact if we had a market system an ad say for General Motors would be a brief statement of the characteristics of the products for next year. That’s not what you see. You see some movie actress or a football hero or somebody driving a car up a mountain or something like that. And that’s true of all advertising. The goal is to undermine markets by creating uninformed consumers who will make irrational choices and the business world spends huge efforts on that. The same is true when the same industry, the PR industry, turns to undermining democracy. It wants to construct elections in which uninformed voters will make irrational choices. It’s pretty reasonable and it’s so evident you can hardly miss it."
From lecture titled"The State-Corporate Complex:A Threat to Freedom and Survival," at the The University of Toronto, April 7, 2011
Now, in an interview with LawNewz.com on Monday morning, Schlussel is denying that she was ever sexually harassed by Sean Hannity. While Schlussel stands by her description of the incident, Schlussel told us that she doesn’t believe what happened between the two amounted to sexual harassment by any legal definition.
“Sexual harassment has a special meaning under the law, and I would never accuse him of that,” she said. “I never thought I was sexually harassed by Sean Hannity, I thought he was weird and creepy not someone I liked.”
He said he had retained a team of lawyers “who are now in the process of laying out the legal course of action we will be taking against this individual,” whom he described as a “serial harasser.”
originally posted by: Sillyolme
a reply to: JDmOKI
The fact is he never should have asked.
Then she wouldn't have to answer at all.
They go about their business as if their genitals have no part in it. Because they shouldn't.
Would he ask a man to come to his suite? ( on average ...)
Would a guy tell another guy his suit really made his shoulders look broad? Or made him look powerful?
If a guy started noticing your attire a bit too closely or started to invite you to their hotel room you'd feel completely comfortable? What if the guy were openly gay?
Be honest with yourself. This may help you understand the other side of the coin.
Imagine these are powerful gay men. They hold the purse, they determine who gets on the ladder and who doesn't. They hire and fire at will.
And then they say to a male employee how attractive they are. How sexy they are. It's a compliment after all.
They invite them to their suite to negotiate their future with the company.
How is the average male going to receive this?
Disclaimer...
I use the gay male boss model as opposed to female boss model to avoid the likelihood of a guy going yeah baby hot boss. The feeling of violation that a woman might experience may be better conveyed when a sexual advance would never be considered desirable in the first place. ( as in women working for men but not being interested in them sexually at all).
No offense to the gay community and certainly not saying gay bosses are predators.
originally posted by: Sillyolme
a reply to: Sconnie77
Making unwanted advances to a business colleague is sexual harassment. She didn't have to work for him to be his victim.
Just whistling at a woman walking down the street is sexual harassment I hate to inform you guys.