Yeah. yeah. That's why it's so much fun to work in corporate these days. Nearly anything said can be twisted into "sexual harassment" if one wants to run and file suit. If one wants to play in the sandbox, one has to man up, imo. I realize times have changed and it's all due to the liberal PC movement to cry foul, sue, and cash in, but I find it shameful. I'm surprised I haven't been sued as I've been known to tell or laugh at an off color joke or two. I tend to avoid cupcakes of either gender.
After reading Tantaros' filing, I'm torn. It appears to me she whined at every opportunity, but she had some legitimate complaints.
Taking on Ailes did require some cojones, I'll give her that. Without a doubt, the man is an old lecher. With that said, I just don't think that every joke told in front of a female is harassment and cause to run to HR.
As for the way she dressed on the air, Ailes demanded it. Heck, they even got Kennedy in a dress although non-sexy, something I didn't think they would ever accomplish.
Finally, if I'd run and cried "sexual harassment" way back when, I would not be where I am today. So what if I got my ass patted and a few pinches where it wasn't acceptable to pinch a person? I found an accidental stomp on the insole usually got the point across.
Their pinches were an intimidation tactic that failed. If I'd been a crybaby about it, I would have been sent packing into the area of my field where the women resided as some of the guys wanted as I was told repeatedly that I was taking a slot that would have gone to a man that really needed the job. An area that paid much less and required next to zero brainpower. No thank you.
I'm not talking about things that people "twist" into harassment. We all know those things exist. I'm talking about actual harassment and abuse that can escalate into even worse things if it is ignored, or worse, accepted.
It's one thing to be tough in a tough environment. It's quite another to be silent about real abuse and let it go on, not only with yourself, but with other people.
Women don't have to take it. Men don't have to get away with it. Your story is typical of strong women in a man's field years ago. But if women had continued to put up with it, in medical schools, in law schools and in business, we wouldn't have had as a many brilliant, strong women as we now have in formerly male dominated fields.
You were a pioneer. But that still doesn't mean the abuse you took was right, nor acceptable at any level.
So thanks for paving the way for other women to not have to take what you did, but don't diminish the wrong that was done to you, nor accept that it was necessary, or normal.
I sure wouldn't have taken abuse from misogynists Bill Clinton and Donald Trump had I worked for them. No sirree..... I would have fought back.
Just my two cents.
