AMANDA HESS

"Is he on The Island?" On the (lack of) professional consequences for sexual harassers

annfriedman:

Most of the time, sexual harassment is not easily verifiable, not obvious to outsiders. Sure, sometimes there are emails or—shudder—voicemails. Irrefutable proof. But mostly harassment is a series of seemingly minor infractions: a quick “joke” about your legs, lots of inquiries about your sex life, three compliments about your looks for every one compliment about your work, a creepy gaze, a lingering touch. Lawyers will tell you to keep a log—to write down each of these little incidents. But it can build up so quietly. You might have a bad feeling about a dude, but not quite be ready to call it harassment until it’s gone on for months. In other words, it creeps up on you. Creeps creep up on you. That’s how they do!

And when we do talk about it, we gotta deal with the lingering suspicion that we actually got the job because of the legs.

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   newsroom perverts are/were....her right mind would name

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    This whole thing is excellent.

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    it, we gotta deal...lingering suspicion

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    people don’t realize just how common...only jobs I’ve ever held

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