Peter Brown wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2019 12:24 pm
My ‘outrage’ over Katie’s iron cross tattoo isn’t outrage; it’s laughing at the obvious hypocrisy of folks who, were that tat on Ivanka, wouldn’t be able to breathe for months on end with real outrage. The tat has zero to do with MeToo.
Honestly, you truly don’t understand MeToo. You keep thinking consent is possible when one party controls the power dynamic. Weinstein abused this dynamic in grosser ways and more often than Katie, but the underlying ‘crime’ is the same, The whole premise of MeToo is when the power dynamic places one party in control (paycheck, job), consent can not truly be given even when you give it.
Sorry, PB, your (and lots of haters on the interwebs) suggestion was that Hill had Nazi sympathies...stupid on its face.
If Ivanka had a wild child past and had hung out with some bikers, including a tattoo like this, we wouldn't assume she had Nazi sympathies either...again, just stupid. Now, Ivanka probably would have had it cosmetically removed along with a few other alterations, but, then we might wonder about Tiffany...
Seriously, this was entirely prurient 'outrage', never any actual hypocrisy...My observation? You seem to have gone so far over into the hard right blogosphere that hating libs has become your religion. It's ugly.
Now on #METOO, when you show me one or more of your past posts ripping any specific GOP male member...heck the current POTUS... for abusing their 'power dynamic' with women, you'll begin to have some credibility with me about actually caring about those who face coercion. Until then, you just have no credibility.
But I do agree with you on why its such a fraught situation when there's an employer-employee, boss-subordinate, potential employer-potential employee, teacher-student, etc involvement. Regardless of the rules any given org has, I'd advise folks to avoid these particular relationships.
This does, of course, raise the challenge of folks actually falling in love, given lots of proximity.
Seems to me that if that happens, the two folks need to get their butts to HR before taking any sort of romantic action or the boss ought to find another employer...but if you feel the need to hide the relationship, nope, 'just say no'.