Tag Archives: sexual harassment

Obama’s Sexist Double Standard

“Richards has made male anatomy jokes on her Twitter feed, which she uses professionally. When men make them, though, it’s apparently a female-excluding assertion of male privilege.” Continue reading

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“If you’ve got it, charge for it”: The Feminism 2.0 Manifesto

Can you think of anything more gender divisive, more reinforcing of the gender wage gap, more 1950s regressive of male-female sexuality…than this? Continue reading

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Economic harassment of men

The sexual harassment of women is well known mostly because the mainstream media have made it well known. Far less well known is the economic harassment of men. Continue reading

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What Men Want

“…[I]n our dialogue on relationships today, there seems to be very little interest in a man’s needs.” Continue reading

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College Rape Accusations and the Presumption of Male Guilt

“At the cost of losing federal funding—on which all major institutions of higher education have grown dependent—colleges and universities are obliged under Title IX of the Civil Rights Act…to curtail due process rights of the accused.” Continue reading

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The Sexual Harassment Quagmire: Digging Out With True Equality

Why aren’t feminists upset about this inequality? Answer: They don’t want to offend most women. Continue reading

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In Favor of Dirty Jokes and Risqué Remarks

“Codes of sexual harassment imagine an entirely symmetrical universe, where people are never outrageous, rude, awkward, excessive or confused, where sexual interest is always absent or reciprocated, in other words a universe that does not entirely resemble our own.” Continue reading

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The Civil Rights Act Spawned the Unintended Consequence of Sexual Harassment Laws

“This vicious implementation of sexual harassment laws is another example of unintended consequences. The original impulse behind such seemed humanitarian, though misguided. Lin Farley’s watershed work, Sexual Shakedown: The Sexual Harassment of Women on the Job (1978), chronicled appalling cases … Continue reading

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