My company’s e-training portrayed a female customer harrasing a female employee. I thought “Hey, anyone can be a harrasser!” and then laughed at the terrible acting.

Overall though we just sit through the sexual harassment training just like the hand washing and the neglect abuse reporting trainings – passing notes, sipping on luke warm coffee and counting the minutes until we are released to go do things that are more productive in our day. These trainings are a fact of life, you just have to grow up and sit through them. Saying that they imply you are a harasser is like saying the hand washing one implies I touch feces and don’t wash my hands – ridiculous.

FWIW – the three people I have had to deal with are a 60+ gay man and a 45+ straight woman both of whom were way to touchy with male undergrads and a 30+ gay man who called a female coworker a bitch. While the language sometimes needs to be corrected, most of the male staff in my department who are under 40 know better than to have unwanted physical contact with their coworkers and students.

It also introduces an atmosphere of fear and distrust. Every female is a potential accuser, and should be shunned to avoid false allegations. The overwhelming number of allegations are unfounded and retaliatory false accusations by vicious, disgruntled, mentally ill victims of feminist false propaganda.

Since this bogus field of law got invented and forcibly imposed by extreme, unshaven feminists, sexual harassment has markedly increased. In the past, there was a correct remedy for piggish behavior, a smart slap to the face. It applied to the offender, and worked to deter future offenses. It left out the innocent employer from wasteful litigation. If the victim of harassment were to do that, she would be fired, when the pig reported her. he pig would then move on to oppress another victim.

Today, the employer gets sued, no matter what. The offender is not even named in the lawsuit. The idiotic plaintiff wins, she will never work anywhere again. Then she gets taxed on the entirety of any verdict or settlement, and cannot deduct the fee of the lawyer. That means she gets almost nothing.

That is about what sexual harassment law is worth, nothing.

But then I forgot, the unwashed masses need the enlightened to tell us how to live and how to think.

No difference in this and any other program used by a totalitarian regime.

There is a fundamental difference between fire drills and telling people to stop sexually harrassing women. First of all that sentence smacks of sexism in itself. Men can’t be sexually harrassed? Second of all when a state school compels all personnel to submit to sexual harrassment training so as to tell its personnel to “stop harrassing women” does it presume that the personnnel attending have sexually harrassed women?

I get the impression that either 1) there’s a lot of people on this thread who have never been to sexual harrassment training, or; 2) the training I’m hearing about from some commenters is vastly different than any of the training I’ve had throughout the corporate world and government service.

Every training I’ve been to goes to great pains to illuminate the problem of sexual harassment of men. Even though sexual harasment of men is only a tiny fraction of the problem. There certainly have been cases of women managers harassing male employees, or gay male employees being tormented by straight employees. Sexual harassment is not limited to heterosexual interactions. ANY type of harassment that is intended to to exploit someone’s gender or sexual orientation falls under the legal definition of sexual harassment. Although, it mostly happens to women, that’s just a fact. Its a very broad law, I don’t know why some people are feeling so sorry for the “men” who take the training. I was never felt to made like a thug or a creep.

This professor dude is totally misconstruing what the training is, and he’s taking it VERY personally. Like its all about him. I wonder why that is?

There is a fundamental difference between fire drills and telling people to stop sexually harrassing women. First of all that sentence smacks of sexism in itself. Men can’t be sexually harrassed? Second of all when a state school compels all personnel to submit to sexual harrassment training so as to tell its personnel to “stop harrassing women” does it presume that the personnnel attending have sexually harrassed women?

I get the impression that either 1) there’s a lot of people on this thread who have never been to sexual harrassment training, or; 2) the training I’m hearing about from some commenters is vastly different than any of the training I’ve had throughout the corporate world and government service.

Every training I’ve been to goes to great pains to illuminate the problem of sexual harassment of men. Even though sexual harasment of men is only a tiny fraction of the problem. There certainly have been cases of women managers harassing male employees, or gay male employees being tormented by straight employees. Sexual harassment is not limited to heterosexual interactions. ANY type of harassment that is intended to to exploit someone’s gender or sexual orientation falls under the legal definition of sexual harassment. Although, it mostly happens to women, that’s just a fact. Its a very broad law, I don’t know why some people are feeling so sorry for the “men” who take the training. I was never felt to made like a thug or a creep.

This professor dude is totally misconstruing what the training is, and he’s taking it VERY personally. Like its all about him. I wonder why that is?

We do the sexual harassment training on hiring which seems to be a good system. 95% of what you hear is known, but the 5% or so that is new makes it worthwhile. That makes the signal to noise higher than a whole lot of meetings.

So if you agree with me that this was an utterly unwarranted attack against my dignity and a slur against my intelligence, and I’m sure you all do, please send cash contributions to:

W. Kiernan
[street address redacted]
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’cause now I’m out of a job and I got to pay my bills…