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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 01, @08:00AM
(17 children)
by Anonymous Coward
on Saturday March 01, @08:00AM (#1394794)
This oft-repeated canard fo "you'll be guilty until proven innocent is boring. Boring, boring, boring. Same old lies coming from the same old liars. The only people claiming worry about "false sexual harassment claims" are people who sexually harass. If you don't harass your co-workers, and just do your job instead, you'll be fine. Really.
Here's the thing: victims of sexual harassment who truthfully try to expose it have their lives turned to shit. Absolute shit. The perpetrator's employer, friends, and family routinely work together to discredit the claimant and back up the perpetrator. The victim's friends and family will not even think of believing them except under a very narrow, unlikely set of circumstances that perpetrators go out of their way to prevent. Their employment is, at best, likely to end if they are in any way public about what happened.
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on Saturday March 01, @10:54AM (#1394812)
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 01, @01:34PM
(7 children)
by Anonymous Coward
on Saturday March 01, @01:34PM (#1394825)
I know someone who was framed by his ex-wife, one of her friends and the friend's teenage daughter. He got 18 months and 10 years on the Sex Offenders Register.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 01, @08:00AM (17 children)
This oft-repeated canard fo "you'll be guilty until proven innocent is boring. Boring, boring, boring. Same old lies coming from the same old liars. The only people claiming worry about "false sexual harassment claims" are people who sexually harass. If you don't harass your co-workers, and just do your job instead, you'll be fine. Really.
Here's the thing: victims of sexual harassment who truthfully try to expose it have their lives turned to shit. Absolute shit. The perpetrator's employer, friends, and family routinely work together to discredit the claimant and back up the perpetrator. The victim's friends and family will not even think of believing them except under a very narrow, unlikely set of circumstances that perpetrators go out of their way to prevent. Their employment is, at best, likely to end if they are in any way public about what happened.
If the police get involved, things get much, much worse [ojp.gov] for accusers. The majority of victims know this in advance.
No WAY they're going to subject themselves to that kind of shit unless it actually happened.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 01, @01:34PM (7 children)
I know someone who was framed by his ex-wife, one of her friends and the friend's teenage daughter. He got 18 months and 10 years on the Sex Offenders Register.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Mykl on Tuesday March 04, @02:30AM (7 children)
Nice display of empathy there. Someone shares their biggest fear and you indirectly accuse them of that very thing because of that sharing. Classy.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 04, @10:40AM
Actually, it was a confession, and a confession of more than the fear, an admission of a fear of being caught. Fucking perv.