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Important other reason to pursue sexual harassment litigation: * It gives other survivors a statement of solidarity and validates their experiences. It says th
by gcr 10y ago
Important other reason to pursue sexual harassment litigation:
* It gives other survivors a statement of solidarity and validates their experiences. It says that other survivors really weren't crazy; that others had this experience too. For someone who's left doubting their sanity after an incident like this happened, this kind of support is immensely powerful.
* It forces these incidents to be drawn into the eyes of the public.
Uber's rotten culture is only getting attention because someone spoke up.
I see all the negatives you mentioned as failures of our litigation-after-sexual-harassment model that we should seek to address. There's nothing that says we should make barriers to litigation and cost of failure so high.
- Arizhel 10y agoThere's nothing we can do to fix our legal system to make it worthwhile for women to pursue these cases. Our political and legal systems are utterly broken: just look at the latest election for proof. Women who avoid pursuing litigation are simply being realistic with the way things are in America these days. And of course, the people who insist that they should sacrifice their lives to fix this problem are people who have nothing to lose themselves.
- joatmon-snoo 10y ago> There's nothing that says we should make barriers to litigation and cost of failure so high. Who said anything about "should"? The fact is that the barriers are that high.
- gcr 10y agoYou're right. Might as well bury our heads in the sand then; nothing can be done. /s We can't improve things until we allow ourselves to imagine better realities. There's nothing wrong with that.