Culture of Blame

Cultures across the globe and across time have found ways to blame women for their own rapes and harassment, but this is absolutely outlandish.  Iowa has ruled that it is LEGAL to fire attractive people.

Tell me how many men you think could ever lose their jobs, when acting perfectly correctly and professionally, for posing a threat to a coworker's marriage.  How many judges would CONDONE such a termination.

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When Stuyvesant says that women’s dress and bodies are distraction in a learning environment, for example, what they’re really saying is that they’re distracting to male students. The default student we are concerned about—the student whose learning we want to ensure is protected—is male. Never mind how “distracting” it is to be pulled from class, humiliated, and made to change outfits—publicly degrading young women is small price to pay to make sure that a boy doesn’t have to suffer through the momentary distraction of glancing at a girl’s legs. When this dentist in Iowa can fire his assistant for turning him on—even though she’s done absolutely nothing wrong—the message again is that it’s men’s ability to work that’s important.