| inbluevt | Date: Wednesday, 2013/08/07, 7:25 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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What do San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, Miami professor Colin McGinn, and right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh have in common? They’re all older white men who’ve learned the hard way that sexist ‘jokes’ have serious consequences, says Amanda Marcotte.
Is the social price of being an overt sexist finally becoming too much to pay? Sure, no one likes to be called a sexist, but beyond the sting of being labeled as a known sexual harasser or misogynist loudmouth, it surprisingly often leads to not much else beyond having a few people dislike you. Recent news stories, however, suggest that perhaps the tide is changing. Older white men who’ve engaged in some troubling behavior toward women are finding the same old excuses don’t work anymore. Shrugging and claiming that you didn’t know any better or that women
overreact to “jokes” simply doesn’t offer the protection that it used to.
Bob Filner, the mayor of San Diego, stands accused of sexually harassing 10 women, and it seems that this behavior has been going on for years without any social or career repercussions. Now, however, he’s not shrugging it off as easily as he clearly thinks he should be able to do. Pulling a sad
face, claiming he couldn’t have known any better because [url=http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-mayor-bob-filner-sexual-harassment-training-excuse-20130801,0,1223869.story]he didn’t get any training not to sexually harass women[/url], and committing to two weeks of therapy—as if profound misogyny can be
cured like it’s a minor bad habit—might have been strategies that worked in the past, but currently, Filner’s strategies to evade accountability are being met with derision. Stephen Colbert particularly had fun with Filner’s empty excuses, suggesting the only real thing that you need to do when you have an urge to sexually harass someone is one word: “Don’t.”
Read on..
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