Sexual Harassment - Because We Can

Let's talk about sexual harassment on the real world level, something we can't do in the cubes. Why here and now? Because we can.

And because the namby-pambies at the Sexual Harassment Seminar we had to attend this afternoon spewed out so many by-the-number platitudes in an hour that The Cube is feeling resentful.

Men shouldn't harass women: Yep, got it the first sentence.

Women harassing men--- Nope, not on the federal guideline agenda, not to discuss.

Men harassing m--- Weren't you listening? "Men should not sexually intimidate women": it's all a one-way street, this sexual harassment stuff as taught at our seminar.

Oh . . . Really?

So whatsa with this sexual harassment stuff really oh wise-ass Cube?

Let's dismiss with the kind of "he/she can't do it unless s/he's butch/gay" type of harassment. That's the type of sexual insecurity that comes in batches of "traditional role" jobs that if you go in to shatter sexual stereotypes you know from the start what you're facing. You like confrontation, whether you admit it or not and, really, you want the attention. Does it make it right? Naw, but it's like the sign says: Beware of Dog. No big surprises when you get bit - 'just gotta worry if the dog's got rabies.

Tomorrow: The Cube's sexual harassment story. Oh . . .