Sexual Harassment

[Stephen E Philion]

> -----Original Message-----
Todd wrote:>
> >I doubt you'll find anything better than Kelley's description of her own
> travails;
> >it might not work for all men, though.  A collective flaming followed by a
> >"now, do you get it, Shit-fer-brains?" lecture might be apropos.
>
Lou wrote:
>
> I've never seen it work.  Usually the target gets on his high horse,
> accusing the flamers of orchestrating a "feeding frenzy", and various people
> come to his defense, condemning the flamers for intemperate language, and
> branding the flamers as prudes, anti-sex Dworkinites, enemies of free
> expression, psychologically fucked up themselves, and so on.
>
> However, "probably" always implies "possibly not", so maybe my pessimism
> will prove unwarranted.  One can hope, I guess.
>
> lp

I used to accept this, but the sexual politics in the States being so
oddly wrapped up in a panic mode + self-obsession makes me doubt the
usefulness of either Lou or Todd's proposals without some provisions for
due process. If there is a guarantee of due process involed, fine. In a
country  like the US, the politics of sexual panic, monkey-see monkey-do,
lead to some pretty bizarre scenarios of  fale accusation that it's in the
interest of no reasonable person to defend.

Steve