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How “Sexual Harassment” Evolved Into A Witch Hunt

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Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, and Dan Quayle were in a spelling bee, and Quayle won because he knew that “harass” was one word, not two.

So that’s an old joke, but the subject is pretty serious. First of all, what exactly does harassment mean? The definition is remarkably fuzzy after evolving over the years.

Legal precedents

Originally, only “quid pro quo” offers were forbidden. That means employment or favoritism in exchange for sex. For example, one of my former colleagues had a salary nearly 50% higher than mine. I was busting my ass every day, though I had no idea what her job involved. Later, I found out that the district manager banged her. Was she exploited? Mainly the joke was on the company paying her a hefty salary for doing probably nothing.

This is reprehensible conduct. People shouldn’t have to compromise themselves for employment. On the other side of the coin, if the offer is accepted, it’s essentially soft prostitution. So the boss is a sleazebag and his employee is a hooker. However, it’s enforced like prostitution laws in Sweden and Canada; only the “johns” risk getting busted.

Later, a Supreme Court case ruled that a hostile work environment constituted illegal discrimination. What the plaintiff had endured on the job was disgusting. I’m not a lawyer, but it was already illegal for three reasons that I can see. Despite that, the Court created a new frontier of the law, eventually becoming a bonanza for attorneys.

The definition of “hostile environment” they created is fairly blurry, depending on the “reasonable person” doctrine. The Court should’ve known that the law is a blunt tool, and that enforcing matters of propriety and taste is very tricky. During the previous decade, they’d effectively capitulated on pornography, allowing it to become mainstream. Obscenity failing the “Miller Test” is still technically enforceable, but authorities seldom bothered after the 1980s. Meanwhile, the hostile environment doctrine started expanding, eventually enforced to the point of scrupulosity.

Does saying “nice dress” create a hostile environment? A reasonable person would laugh at that, but lawyers might launch a DEFCON1 lawsuit. Technically, only acting like a pig should get anyone in trouble. However, throwing an employee under the bus for the tiniest peccadillo becomes an expedient measure. Another preventative measure is not hiring women.

Clarence Thomas

sexism

No, not this Anita!

The Clarence Thomas brouhaha became the mother of all media circuses. It was a fairly normal Supreme Court nomination until National Public Radio intervened, and you know what that means. NPR’s Nina Totenberg revealed a leaked sexual harassment allegation. Insider information reported by the media can be rather dodgy; “anonymous sources in the Pentagon” could mean a general, the janitor, or the reporter’s fertile imagination. Even so, there was a real person behind it, and Anita Hill took the stage.

Following that, this politically-charged event became a classic “he said / she said” case, where neither side really could prove anything. Did Clarence Thomas formerly talk about dirty movies, Long Dong Silver (a porn star with a prosthetic shlong), or a pubic hair on a soda can? Even if nothing was embellished, Anita Hill wasn’t too offended to follow him to his next job in the EEOC. There, he promoted someone else as his chief of staff instead of her. Perhaps that’s when the jokes he used to tell stopped being funny retroactively?

Still, all that took place (or not) before the “hostile environment” doctrine was developed. This type of workplace douchebaggery was handled by ordinary disciplinary processes, and wasn’t a special category that could launch a DEFCON1 lawsuit. Therefore, he was criticized on ex post facto standards about his alleged bad jokes. He had to play the race card to escape the “high-tech lynching”. As far as dirty tactics go, it was basically fighting fire with fire at that point.

In the wake of that, flirting at work became taboo, even when it was well-received. Following the sexual revolution, society had gone through a tremendous cultural shift. By the 1990s, morality was optional; basically “anything goes”. However, the workplace was now a special exception, where conditions reverted to Victorian standards.

Bill Clinton

How about some dictation lessons, Monica?

A much larger brouhaha began when Bill Clinton got busted for hanky panky at the Oral Office. Granted, his presidency was one scandal after another, from the travel office business in the beginning to pardoning deep-pockets contributors in the end—not even to mention his earlier career. “Loose cannon on deck” is one of the nicer ways to describe him.

This certainly wasn’t the only bimbo eruption, but “Fornigate” spun out of control because the evidence was overwhelming. All plausible deniability was shot to hell when the blue dress tested positive for residue of Big Mac sauce. Several people who Clinton got to be character witnesses for him—including Al Gore and even Cupcake herself—ended up looking pretty silly. Still, the impeachment was close, but no cigar.

Chubby Bubba only escaped it because Democrats circled the wagons. (Better yet for him, the year of wrangling left everyone too exhausted to investigate the far more serious charges by Juanita Broaddrick.) Throughout, the Democrats were in a bind. By their standards, workplace nookie was strictly forbidden. A few years ago, they’d tried to shoot down Clarence Thomas merely for bad jokes. Further, they were shackled to the ball and chain of feminist ideology, a major constituency.

This further reinforced the taboo against workplace relationships. However, Republicans weren’t making a crime of getting BJs on the clock. The problem was Clinton lying under oath. Many Democrats argued that it wasn’t really a big deal; it was only about sex. However, this position never became a permanent revision to liberal doctrine. Because of this omission, an even more noxious leftist (a pretty tough act to follow) would find himself hoisted on his own petard much later.

It goes nuclear

This is the wrong way to fertilize potted plants.

In 2017, Harvey Weinstein got busted for acting like a pig. Still, that was business as usual in Hollyweird; for decades nobody did anything about it until his movies started bombing. (His weird political posturing probably didn’t help.) All his feminist street cred counted for nothing.

After that, the #MeToo movement settled many old scores, and eventually became a witch hunt. Several more liberal celebrities became friendly-fire casualties of feminism. Political figures were targeted too: Roy Moore, Jesse Jackson, Carl Sargeant (driven to suicide), and even Bush the Elder. Actual harm to the complainants was often absent, likewise real evidence.

Still, it’s unclear why this merits a special category. Hostile environments certainly can happen without any sexual element. Workplace bullying is serious business too. I’ve been sexually harassed on the job—so yeah, “me too”. Being approached repeatedly by the ugly bisexual CEO was grotesque. Still, one of his underlings constantly screaming at me was far worse. When she got me fired, no longer being forced to tolerate her bipolar issues was a blessing.

It’s perfectly legal for mentally unstable supervisors to berate employees daily and threaten their livelihood. That’s quite common in “kiss up / kick down” corporate cultures. If saying “nice dress” is worse and needs special protection, then someone should explain why.

Read More: What To Do If You’re Accused Of Sexual Harassment At Work

33 thoughts on “How “Sexual Harassment” Evolved Into A Witch Hunt”

  2. Is that statue of Bill Clinton with the liberty lady real?? or just photoshop..I cant believe my eyes..How can people draw an ex president like that involving a historic monument..Sure he has an affair but he was the president!!!!….people are seriously nuts these days!!..anything is possible.

    2. It was a real parade float in Germany. The group does lots of politically-themed ones like that, some pretty daring by standards over there.

      1. Hey Albrecht, these are pictures of the past. Today there is no more any political incorrect wagon on the Cologne carnival…

  3. Societies occasionally go through manias, and the #MeToo hysteria is the current Exhibit A.
    It is exactly like the Child Satanic Sexual Abuse hysterics of the late 70s and early 80s, where every ambitious prosecutor, pandering politician and rating hungry reporter jumped on the bandwagon to give traction to assorted accusations that were flimsy at best and mostly just fraudulent inventions of overanxious parents. It reached a crescendo with the McMartin Preschool Trial and helped fuel the advancement of such opportunists as Janet Reno, later of Waco fame.
    Like that hysteria, this one will eventually burn itself out, later to be seen 20 or 40 years on as mostly the confabulation of sex-for-favors and day-after regret with actual and forcible rape. But before that happens, careers will be ruined, reputations tarnished and finances destroyed.
    A few (creepy) individuals are perhaps justifiably of deserving of closer scrutiny, emphasis on the word “Perhaps.” But doubtless most are not, guilty only of making mostly stupid and inexperienced little girls feel uncomfortable at some point, or of being the targets of vengeful individuals seeking finally to get even decades later.
    Those are true victims of this current frenzy.
    Just a thought.
    VicB3

  4. Avoid White women and you can avoid false rape accusations altogether.

    1. All women have that capability. And with leftists beta enablers it will only get worse.

    2. We are waiting for the times when lifelike sexbots will be as affordable as a phone… yupieeeeeeeeeee!!!!

      1. those companies that produce them are owned by leftists there wont be a robot alternative utopia. You are fool if u believe so. Soon they will make those robots to be like testosterone supplement. Once you have been with one you wont be able to be or want to be with a real woman whether she is good or not then your sterilisation will be complete. Then they will program it to program you “hypnotise you into obeying leftist sh*t that you hate once done with you they can instruct your robot to malfunction and kill you and before that it can spy on you easily

        1. Lol I already dont want to be with a real… fat, pale, ugly, pretentious and spoiled femicunt… if u work any 8 hour job u are already obeying leftist shit and I dont care if they spy on me as I said before all they will learn is that I like muscular girls. As for killing me that also doesnt matter as they already do it veryyy slowly with the modern way of life. In summary the dystopia works, nothing to worry about.

        2. “Once you have been with one you wont be able to be or want to be with a real woman whether she is good or not then your sterilisation will be complete.”
          You make it sound like that’s a bad thing.

    3. White American and Canadian women are not Kosher! Their pussies stink like rotten fish and their intelligence is below that of animals.

      1. @XWXT – Virgin girls anywhere on Earth never smell like rotten fish. North American virgin teen girls ‘NAMTWEENS’ are as sweet and wifable as any other virgins you can find across the globe excluding cultures that openly defacate and wipe their ass with leaves. (That’s why the Indian Mexicans smell like animals. Fecaphilism is common. An aztec peasant kid who was a customer at a friend’s restaurant once smeared his own shit over the entire restroom with his hands.)
        IN NORTH AMERICA the namtweens, our only hope for a white future are systematically separated from venues that could result in being wifed up by fellow tribal patriarchs. At their sweetest, they are herded into female empowering yet sterile endeavors like girl’s softball. You’ll see a pack of white namtweens in the local Hardee’s with their long hair in buns under visor caps wearing spandex team uniforms that reveal pristine and bestly unadulterated maturity. Some are taller than ME by golly and they’re not even in heels. They’re wearing knee-hi team socks in these black sports croc flip flop jail slippers. Now THAT’S sexy. Their [wifable] smv is through the roof. (my hat is spinning like a propellor)
        And always, as always dammitt, their households around this period disintegrate with the excesss estrogen/hormones in the home. The ‘tween’ period is when statistically most frivorce is committed by the mother because the mother/pubescent daughter hormone combinations are explosive and cat fights ensue. These girl’s mothers are clueless as the next female as to why they proceed to then burn the house, fleece and divorce rape the dad, hit the bars and then take a nap while the daughters go unsupervised and get wasted. And it’s all facilitated by enablers. The enablers need the softball bats upside the head at this point.
        If only dowry and the proper marrying off of these western namtween girls were implemented, then the explosive hormone clashes that drive these mothers of teen girls to go apeshit would be avoided.
        I’ve known soooo many families where the trouble and frivorce can be traced back to when the daughter entered puberty. Traditionally and during colonial times, THAT’S the time when dad started talking and negotiating to find the daughter a mature and accountable mate who owned land ideally.
        Dang every time I see a cute girl, b-cup under a tight jersey, two feet of hair in a bun with those black flip flops I think . . . how long is she going to last before ¡ew attorneys and socialist service witches and family court feminazis begin BUTCHERING that poor family.
        Feminists actually do want namtweens to become sexually experienced at a very young age but NOT married. This way the girl has experience on how to lure, consume and then dump said male. THAT’S what the feminazis really want, sexually experienced and empowered females that can NEVER be controlled by any man. SHE makes the booty call, NEVER the man otherwise it’s #metoo rape. STEINEM did say that all heterosexual sex is rape by the man. Once a girl is used up and can manipulate her pussy for favors at a young age, she’s no longer wifable by anyone. The feminists in this way believe the hetero marriage institution can be starved to death if all the young girls are wasted and made ‘unwifable’.

    5. He he, that’s the reason some clever lefties have had third world sex for help in charity organisations like Oxfam.

  5. Yes, we know, the laws of current society work against men, especially white men.
    Solution: kill the owners of mass media, banks & other big corporations, Breivik style. Europeans had no qualms killing their own God anointed monarchs in the name of satanic masons, no reason why they shouldn’t do the same thing to their Satan anointed counterparts.
    Otherwise suck it up.

    1. U can’t kill the hand that feeds u… especially when u are a millennial hipster journalist getting paid to write bullshit clickbait articles like “This man quit his job and now makes 500k a month traveling the world” or shit about Trump… oh boy if I was paid to do this I would never want to tear down the current dystopia.

    2. Queen Elizabeth is part of the 33rd degree Masonry family. Which explains why Princess Diana “died by accident” because she was dating someone who they didn’t agree on. Princess Diana also threatened the royalty status quo, leading to her assassination.

  6. Canada is so cucked that in the year 1993, a feminist who showed her pussy to young children while they were playing on the lawn successfully appealed her indecent exposure conviction and legalized women in Ontario to be naked around young children in the year 1996.
    Fast forward to 2018, and it’s illegal for men to stare at women in Toronto if they are at a Slutwalk rally, or if the woman chooses to go commando and naked for Lil Chad while giving him a blowj0b in public.

  7. Another spot on article for RoK. “Hostile Work Environment” lawsuits and the like are the enforcement arm of PC culture and guilty-until-proven innocent mob mentality. Going after someone’s livelihood by striking fear into his (or her? not yet at least) employer is a brilliant way to bypass due process afforded by the criminal justice system, where the burden of proof is much higher.

  10. I am a white man and I am tired of this.
    Muslim men please take over.
    I will submit myself to you as a faggot war booty. Do whatever you want to my hairless white booty, as long as you set the women straight with patriarchy.
    Please brown/black men, all us white men feel this way inside, we are begging you.
    Take over and bring things back to patriarchy, and you can have not only our women, but our butthole pleasures as well.
    Yours truly,
    A white sissy

    1. The great irony being a great many black/brown men lives revolve around getting laid and not much else. Slaves to the pussy.
      It may appear macho and masculine on the surface. But just look at the state of black women before you go claiming they know how to put their women in line.
      The (((System))) got everyone screwed.
      But I digress, this will fall on deaf ears. “Its easier to fool someone than to convince them they have been fooled.”

      1. No sasquatch, just trust the superior black and brown man. The way we kiss our woman’s butt, they would never think about doing that. We have something missing in us that they must fill. We need their help.
        In return, we can offer them out butthole pleasures. Us white men need to wax our butt and bend over for the brown/black men. Then they may help us.

    2. Hahaha… Why you need to be disgusting?… buddy… Anytime we find you this is the evidence goofie…

    3. I agree with Middle Eastern Muslim man please takeover!!!… So people like you get lined up against the wall….
      You really want to troll here eh?… Is that bc the article or the comments therefrom made you upset?…
      Don’t forget to pray for Human rights before your bedtime every night!!!!… If that piece of paper blows away in the wind your extinct and anybody who got close to you as well…
      Please give me some feedback Joke.
      Have a nice day!!!!

  11. I have so many stories of “fake” sexual harassment from my days as an HR Manager:
    One guy got a complaint by his secretary because he had a picture of his wife (who was hot) in a bikini clearly just posing on the beach at a family vacation.
    Another guy got one because in the lunch room during break time he made a remark that women looked better in skirts and a woman overheard him. The remark was just stating his personal preference in general directed at no one in particular.
    I pitied the guy who actually got fired because his idea of impressing a woman and asking her out on a date was to hide in a box and jump out to surprise her with a bunch of flowers. That complaint was probably the closest I ever got to actual harassment. But he should have just got a written warning since it only happened one time and he apologized profusely.
    A guy got written up because he had a bumper sticker that said “only lesbians wear flannel shirts”. He was told he couldn’t park in the company lot until he removed the sticker. So what he did was get a bigger sticker and parked it, legally, on the street in front of the business. After a week they finally toward him he could park again in the lot. But had to park in the back.
    A guy, at least initially, got in trouble because a woman overheard him talking about his “big balls”. Upon further investigation though turned out he indeed did have “big balls” due to a medical condition where fluid would build up around his testicles and he had to get it drained every month. Upon being told he would need medical evidence, he offered to produce it to the woman asst HR manager by unbuttoning his pants and showing her. And then he did. That is what actually got him in trouble.
    This one takes the cake though. Company is probably 80% so lots of “guy stuff” goes on. One guy is getting married so a bunch of the other guys decide to, after hours, get him a stripper and they will use the shop because no one is going to be around. Well, too bad they picked the wrong night because the owner’s wife and daughter stopped in to pick up a few things. And the show was to the point where the guy is bare assed getting beat by his own belt. But, as you probably think it ended for them I was just told “tell those guys NEVER to do that again” by an embarrassed owner and don’t put anything in writing.

  12. A couple of points:
    The author is correct no one should put up with harassment at work.
    The problem with civil rights laws and hostile work environment is that the apply only to those actions directed at members of protected classes. Thus, everyone else is fair game. I have noticed this first hand at a couple of jobs I have worked at. HR and management have literally driven some people to nervous break downs just because they could. However they would not dare do this to a minority or a woman.
    There has been some push to create work place bullying/harassment laws that would apply to everyone. From a legal and management perspective this is a good idea.
    Other than that you can also assert a tort or breach of contract/bad faith claim however it is more tenuous.
    As much as I don’t frivolous claims, its better to have a couple of wackos who sue and get their case dismissed than have huge chunks of the population get fucked over with no recourse.
    I definitely agree with the author that some of this shit has gotten out of control. However, I think ironically if you were to have some type of anti harassment law that would apply to everyone it would limit a lot of this BS since the accused could counter sue by claiming that being sued for some thing like saying “nice dress” was nothing but a pretext to harass them with a law suit. After it became established that only valid discrimination or harassment claims would result in any action or pay out this shit would settle down.
    Also, the fact that you could sue your psycho boss etc etc would likely have a great chilling effect on this type of behavior. Right now its perfectly legal to fuck with someone so long as they are not part of the “special group.” …

  14. This is what we get for taking them seriously… it’s 2018 – less than 50 since we started doing that…
    Come on guys!!!!!

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