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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Didn’t read this whole thread, but the first woman in the article sounds like she consented  (who takes a bath in a garden?) and she’s telling the gross details for shock value snd sympathy.  Why would she continue to babysit if he was abusing her?  Her story makes zero GD sense.[/quote]

I think it all sounds mostly-consensual.  But also awful, despicable, and involving his child is over the line.[/quote]

Sure I mean he’s gross, but “accusations” of being a “predator” seem to be what’s really over the line.  Honestly I’m sick of grown women being infantilized like this.  If your gross employer asks you to take a bath with him it’s time to get the hell out of there.

(Plus he sucks as a writer.  Never understood his appeal.)[/quote]

Women who are being harassed at work are not infants. That's ridiculous. There's a power dynamic between employer and employee.

I was in my 30s as a working highly educated professional woman. A man I was working on a contract with met me for coffee in public to work. He then started insisting I go to his house and wait for him to take a shower. I said no. Obviously I didn't get any more work with him.

Now I realize how wrong it was that I dealt with so much, put up with so much, walked away unscathed numerous times. Sometimes friends of mine who were lawyers told me to quit a job before it got to the point I would have a case, because they cared about me. [/quote]

I’m sorry you don’t understand what “infantilization” means.  No shit to the rest of your post; but the solution to workplace harassment isn’t to say “yes” to a bath together, “no” to fingers in your butt, show up to work for the next day, and years later, call a journalist (instead of calling the police when whatever assault you’re claiming occurred actually happened).[/quote]

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