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But he is clearly, also, a fucking creep. You are defending a guy that threw himself onto a 14 year old boy and, apparently, gets his dick out in front of young men on a regular basis.
Your recycling bin is not for general rubbish. I would have thought someone who is supposedly intelligent would have known that.
Maybe this is proof that educational standards really are slipping.
I imagine this will cause me problems should I ever go out in public greeting people.
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can someone enlighten me as to what I'm doing today that may be seen as harassment/Un-PC/Criminal in 20 years time?
Dustin - you must not look at anyone, male or female, lest they think it is a sexual advance. If you happen to brush against someone, you must immediately apologise in case they feel intimidated or sexualised because that may leave them traumatised. And never, ever, offer to make someone a cup of coffee.
If I went after anyone who had ever touched me, flirted with me or engaged in banter in a work setting, I'd spend the rest of my life in court. And I wouldn't be married to the person I'm married to. Of course no-one should be made to feel that their job is at risk if they don't give the boss a blow-job, but it is getting to a point where people are claiming to have been traumatised for 40 years because someone told a smutty joke. That, to me, devalues the cases where there have been awful and sometimes horrific cases of physical and emotional abuse, where the victims are now less likely to be taken seriously.
Don't get me wrong, a lot of things have changed and still need to change in the workplace in relation to bullying and harrassment, whether sexually motivated, gender motivated, power motivated or for any other reason. But not all transgressions are of a Savile/Weinstein nature and should not be dealt with as such.
*lights blue touch paper and retires*
Fizz fizz fizz BOOM!
Ness, you'd spend no time in court unless the touching involved grabbing your genitals. I don't understand the clamour to trivialise sexual misconduct by crowbaring in false equivalents. There's a stubborn blindness to recognise a sensible boundary of conduct. The spotlight has been on cases of clear unwanted and forceful sexual contact, countered by arguments that take us down a road where everyday innocuous contact becomes forbidden because "someone" will take offence. Where is this happening? Recognition of sexual misconduct is not a slippery slope or a constraint on everyday life. No there is not a wave of trivial allegations. But yes people say stupid stuff on social media.
I'm 63 - I know how to cut a cake, FFS !!!
(Although there have been a few instances of genital/breast grabbing and unsolicited kissing amongst the knee touching and suggestive comments)
You are right, there should be a sensible boundary of conduct (aka Don't be a Dick), and most people abide by it, or are savvy enough to realise that they may have overstepped the mark with a comment or action and withdraw quickly with an apology.
I guess we leave out the women (and probably some men) who "give head to get ahead" out of the equation.