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The TED talks empire has been grappling with sexual harassment
- randyrand 9y agoI thought HN had rules about not allowing flame-topic political posts.
- anarchy8 9y agoThis isn't really a political post.
- Buldak 9y agoIt's telling that some think it is.
- randyrand 9y ago1. Sexual harassment is illegal (in the workplace) since the 1960s. Law is inherently political. 2. where lines should be drawn in society is very political. Sexual harassment lines are no different. 3. Washington-post is a political news org
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- sctb 9y ago> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. ... When you flag something, please don't also comment that you did. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- adamnemecek 9y agoIdk how to feel that it's Gretchen Carlson of all people driving this.
- aaron-lebo 9y agoThese sexual predators have been operating and been enabled by others for a long time, seems like you need all the help you can get to expose that.
- baxtr 9y agoI guess that’s a real Gretchen question...
- xkcd-sucks 9y agoFinally, a type of celebrity scandal that appeals to the current generation
- aphextron 9y agoMass Hysteria
- strictfp 9y agoBreaking news: people who like attention and power also like to abuse their power.
- jabretti 9y agoThe question is: who are the ones abusing their power? The alleged perps, or those who are claiming to be victims?
- aaron-lebo 9y agoIs that an honest question given the revelations of the last month?
- SirensOfTitan 9y agoThe Atlantic published an interesting piece a couple months ago titled "Power Causes Brain Damage": https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/power-causes-brain-damage/528711/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/power-c... It purports that Henry Adams wasn't so off the mark when he proclaimed that power is "a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim’s sympathies." The breakout quote here: "Subjects under the influence of power, [Dacher Keltner, a psychology professor at UC Berkeley] found in studies spanning two decades, acted as if they had suffered a traumatic brain injury—becoming more impulsive, less risk-aware, and, crucially, less adept at seeing things from other people’s point of view." The high profile cases surrounding sexual abuse recently seem to indicate that the problem is systemic. It represents an illness of society, humanity, or a factor of both that we can only insulate against by understanding the root of what is causing the issue and how to work against it. It's not as simple as: Louis CK, Kevin Spacey, Harvey Weinstein and crew are evil.
- jdavis703 9y agoIt's also not as simple as the perpetrators are "ill." There is a society that's setup to encourage this behaviour. Now I suppose the question is, do you put more emphasis on training people on what sexual harassment and assault is (I don't just mean boring corporate compliance seminars, but training from the time you're in pre-K to graduating college). Or do you view it in general as a problem with power, and realize that society needs to be organized in a less hierarchal manner?
- StillBored 9y ago"There is society that's setup to encourage this behavior." Is that accurate or is it the opposite? It seems to me that much of this behavior is the animalistic mating strategies of males. Thus society is discouraging this behavior.. Strangely, while males harassing females is strongly discouraged, in western (as apposed to say Islam) female preening behavior which is basically the female equivalent of "sexual harassment" is perfectly acceptable.
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- devdad 9y agoThat this post is flagged is a shame. It's a shame that speaking about sexism is still being treated as a political stance by many.
- badwulf 9y agoIf victims would report their allegations to the police instead of reporting it on Twitter, maybe we wouldn't consider it a political manoeuvre. Sexism is victim culture, and victim culture is politics nowadays, it's almost a religion at this point. Just compare the behaviour of today's self identified victims to that of a cult, you would find the resemblance striking. The irony of this is that the real losers here are the actual victims, because their credibility is being tarnished by the Twitter warriors.