NOOOO NO NO NONO FUCK FUCK FUCKIG CBS IS TELLING WOMEN NOT TO REPORT SEXUAL HARASSMENT BECAUSE IT WILL “DAMAGE THEIR CAREERS” and “HARASSMENT IS AN UNFORTUNATE PART OF CLIMBING THE LADDER” I AM SO ANGRY THEY ARE LITERALLY TURNING SEXUAL HARASSMENT INTO A NORM THIS IS NOT OKAY
This is an actual article and I’m still having a hard time believing it’s real.
IF YOU ARE SEXUALLY HARRASSED YOU REPORT THAT SHIT
That is AWFUL. Please report it when you’re sexually harassed. If not for yourself, to try to protect future victims.
FUCK THIS SHIT.
Look, I can understand circumstances where, yeah, reporting it is difficult and you would choose not to. There are times when you literally HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE and it sucks, and those assholes are taking advantage of it. Not every woman can put her source of income at risk like that, and the one thing the article gets right is that the laws DON’T always work, you are NOT guaranteed protection.
Which is why we need to keep fighting for better laws and better enforcement of policies. Which is why when you CAN report it, you SHOULD and FIGHT against this mindset that it’s just something women have to deal with if we want to sit at the boys table. Harassment is NOT just an inconvenience, it is dehumanizing, it is upsetting, it is a weapon used against women and it is BEYOND NOT OKAY.
And of course: why the fuck are you acting like women should have to control whether they report it or not instead of the very basic fact that MEN SHOULD NOT BE DOING THIS?!?!
FUUUUUUUUUCK EVERYTHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING.
You said all the things I meant to say but didn’t while blinded with rage and flailing at the keyboard. 🙂
(A) I can’t believe this piece ever ran on CBS’ site, “counter-intuitive wisdom” appeal or not.
(B) Looking at the story today, I’m stunned that the earliest comment on the story appears to be from 2013, considering the story originally ran in 2011. Does that mean that no-one commented on this for two years, or that those comments have disappeared?
© Why has a story from 2011 suddenly gone viral today? Not that CBS is complaining, doubtlessly.