Harvey Weinstein
#226
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Joined: Apr 2009
Location: SW Ontario
Posts: 19,879
Re: Harvey Weinstein
Apologies for repeating myself but I was checking something in my posting history in the guardian today and came across the following. It came from the fashion pages but it was on the main page for all to see - as I don't go on the fashion pages.
Note the humorous reference to "of course three of us had to go" and the disappointed three references to him not being in trunks.
I can read this with a smile to myself. But try reading it as if it were a female icon where, of course, all the male correspondents just "had" to attend in the hope of seeing her with the minimal covering of a bathing costume.
How would this be reported if this was, say, an over heard comment among three men about a woman? Or, indeed if it was a similarly nudge, nudge, wink, wink, article in the newspaper.
I think it would make the front pages as an example of what we've been reading. The writer(s) would likely lose their jobs.
I really don't like double standards.
Note the humorous reference to "of course three of us had to go" and the disappointed three references to him not being in trunks.
I can read this with a smile to myself. But try reading it as if it were a female icon where, of course, all the male correspondents just "had" to attend in the hope of seeing her with the minimal covering of a bathing costume.
How would this be reported if this was, say, an over heard comment among three men about a woman? Or, indeed if it was a similarly nudge, nudge, wink, wink, article in the newspaper.
I think it would make the front pages as an example of what we've been reading. The writer(s) would likely lose their jobs.
I really don't like double standards.
Double standards indeed.
#227
Re: Harvey Weinstein
I was watching an old episode of the Great Australian Bake Off last night. In it one of the two women who compere the show smashed two 'custard pies' on the breasts of the other woman.
'Just as well that wasn't a man doing that!' I said.. but this made me think in today's super sensitive PC culture, what if the woman pushing the pies were to be a lesbian, would that constitute sexual harrassment, even though it was woman on woman?
When there are those who would suggest that we all live within a spectrum of gender definition, do all acts like this fall foul of the harrassment charge?
'Just as well that wasn't a man doing that!' I said.. but this made me think in today's super sensitive PC culture, what if the woman pushing the pies were to be a lesbian, would that constitute sexual harrassment, even though it was woman on woman?
When there are those who would suggest that we all live within a spectrum of gender definition, do all acts like this fall foul of the harrassment charge?
#228
limey party pooper
Joined: Jul 2012
Posts: 9,979
Re: Harvey Weinstein
I was watching an old episode of the Great Australian Bake Off last night. In it one of the two women who compere the show smashed two 'custard pies' on the breasts of the other woman.
'Just as well that wasn't a man doing that!' I said.. but this made me think in today's super sensitive PC culture, what if the woman pushing the pies were to be a lesbian, would that constitute sexual harrassment, even though it was woman on woman?
When there are those who would suggest that we all live within a spectrum of gender definition, do all acts like this fall foul of the harrassment charge?
'Just as well that wasn't a man doing that!' I said.. but this made me think in today's super sensitive PC culture, what if the woman pushing the pies were to be a lesbian, would that constitute sexual harrassment, even though it was woman on woman?
When there are those who would suggest that we all live within a spectrum of gender definition, do all acts like this fall foul of the harrassment charge?
#231
Re: Harvey Weinstein
Can a single act count, perhaps a misunderstanding, count as "harassment"? I am not a lawyer as you know, but my understanding of the word "harassment" implies some level of deliberate and continuing action?
#233
Re: Harvey Weinstein
As to "misunderstanding" I am steering well clear of that.