There's a range of problems. Dirty jokes/posters/whatever is one level, and a relatively ambiguous one. Refering to a female coworker as a cunt is not ambiguous, not acceptable, and not something she should be expected to brush off or ignore.
I got another student suspended and nearly expelled in high school on sexual harassment charges. He spanked me in a computer lab during class. I have no qualms about what I did. *Nobody* gets to touch me like that if I don't want it.
That being said, there was a big fervor at MIT over a set of posters advertising a party that showed a man and woman dressed in "sexy jungle" clothes. I can't figure out why people were so offended by a drawing of a woman in a tiger print bikini, especially since there was an equally scantily clad man in the image with her. People are pretty self righteous sometimes, and it's not an endearing trait.
I don't think anyone [reasonable] wants to pander to the sensibilities of the most sensitive person in any given environment. Most people, though, want a certain level of courtesy and respect at work, and that seems reasonable and fair to me.
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Re: Hrm
Date: 2002-11-27 01:08 pm (UTC)I got another student suspended and nearly expelled in high school on sexual harassment charges. He spanked me in a computer lab during class. I have no qualms about what I did. *Nobody* gets to touch me like that if I don't want it.
That being said, there was a big fervor at MIT over a set of posters advertising a party that showed a man and woman dressed in "sexy jungle" clothes. I can't figure out why people were so offended by a drawing of a woman in a tiger print bikini, especially since there was an equally scantily clad man in the image with her. People are pretty self righteous sometimes, and it's not an endearing trait.
I don't think anyone [reasonable] wants to pander to the sensibilities of the most sensitive person in any given environment. Most people, though, want a certain level of courtesy and respect at work, and that seems reasonable and fair to me.