![]() ![]() I have an opinion on sexual harassment and it’s based on the law of nature, simply put males like to have contact with females, men will do mostly anything they can to touch ,feel caress and have personal contact with women especially attractive young women,it’s the boundaries and protocols that men will try to break down to achieve what they want at any given time for their own gratification, hopefully resulting into sexual intercourse. If not, and allowed to pass, boldness grows and with it premeditated intent. If checked right then, the behaviour would probably be modified. Because often initially it is just a try on, with no real malice or intent to intimidate. If they did so, they would have been doing themselves, countless others, and the perpetrator, a favour. ![]() However, yes, so often the ‘victim’ lost the moral high ground by not objecting at the time. It was in common use that way since when I was a kid, and I didn’t then, and still don’t, actually know its derivation. No offence meant – no sexual connotation attached. Why? Because as pointed out, it is such a well-known saying, the origins of which are largely forgotten, it is, in effect, is just a bit of a colourful way of saying a gentle NO. I’m a 70 yr old male, but very intolerant of any kind of harassment or taking advantage of…however, in my view, in the quoted case, the good professor really had no case to answer, and the complaint inappropriate, if anything was. I think a complaint of ‘historical inappropriate behaviour’ on the part of Germaine should be made to the HRC, and invite ‘Meeto’s’ to the webpage: story that. She must have just read ‘The Female Eunuch’ which was hot at the time.Ĭome to thing of it, I was most offended by Germaine Greer on Q&A a couple of years ago commenting on Julia Gillard’s big bum and her lack of fashion sense in dealing with it. So the female in this case was complaining about an authority figure in a 1970’s University setting where there were 150 witnesses to a harmless remark from another era. We heard later that the female student in question had made a complaint to the University authorities about Dr G’s ‘inappropriate’ remark, and the old boy was in some sort of hot water. Laughter rippled through the class, and on it went. Having grown up with a few family WW1 veterans of the venerable Dr G’s age, I had heard plenty of that sort of humorous banter and slang. One of the female students was asked a question and after some delay gave a wrong answer, to which Dr G replied “no, not tonight Josephine”. He would fire off questions to anyone in the class, and give pithy and amusing feedback on the answers received. The Lecturer was a 70 year old male PhD (Dr G), with an enthusiastic Julius Sumner Miller type of delivery. ![]() When I was a 19 year old student some 30+ years ago attending what is now called a G8 University doing a STEM course, there were a few females (4 or 5) with 150 males in second year maths class. ![]()
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