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Old 12-10-2017, 05:34 PM   #11
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Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.

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Well put. I walked into that.

I’m struggling to find an objective line. I guess reasonableness works. If it’s generally unreasonable to feel harassed at something, you can’t make a claim for it.

A good analogue might be Jesus Freaks. They get offended at everything and apply extreme standards to behavior.* And they’re rightly ignored. If you’re citing Andrea Dworkin in establishing that you’ve been harassed because your co-worker constantly talks to other men about how hot he thinks Taylor Swift is, no claim for you.


* Except in cases of preserving Senate majorities?
If 2017 teaches us nothing, it's that we really need a period in this country when white men sit down and shut up and let women and people of color make more of the calls on this issue and every other one.

With that, I'll stop.
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