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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAm I going to be accused of sexual harrassment next?
For what I said 40 years ago?
I do know that some things I will not say to a woman, period.
Decades ago, I knew a guy who used one pick-up line. Just the one, every time.
"Wanna (bleep?)"
He got slapped, punched, kicked, but he did "score" quite a bit too.
No, I didn't envy him.
Am I going to be sued next, for some of the dumb things I said to girls when I was a teenager or in my 20's?
'A Prairie Home Companion' name becomes 'Live from Here'
NEW YORK (AP) - "A Prairie Home Companion" has been given a new name - "Live from Here" - in the wake of creator Garrison Keillor's acrimonious split with Minnesota Public Radio.
Chris Thile, the mandolin virtuoso who has hosted the weekly variety show since Keillor's retirement last year, announced the new name Saturday evening as the show opened a live performance in New York City.
MPR terminated its contracts with Keillor after it said it had received multiple allegations of improper conduct by Keillor. MPR has declined to give any details except to say the allegations involved treatment of one woman who had worked with Keillor when he was still with the show.
Keillor has said he accidentally touched a woman's bare back while trying to console her.
www.wbay.com/content/news/A-Prairie-Home-Companion-name-becomes-Live-from-Here-464674663.html
janterry
(4,429 posts)n/t
Irish_Dem
(47,309 posts)To answer your question, I guess it depends upon what you did.
And if you are a public figure.
LisaL
(44,974 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,309 posts)IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)Archae
(46,341 posts)Last edited Sun Dec 17, 2017, 01:14 PM - Edit history (1)
Now if I was famous (or infamous,) and/or rich, I'd be more worried.
IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)This is a power shift in media and government.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)What's happening is that organizations who have been ignoring complaints for decades are suddenly panicking and overreacting, especially when there's someone prominent involved.
This is not the fault of the women who are finally being listened to. It's the fault of organizations that very likely have procedures to deal with complaints through HR and other departments, and have been punishing the complainers all along.
Now instead of actually following the rules they set up-- the ones they have been ignoring to punish the women-- they are suddenly firing the men they've let get away with sht for so long.
Of course it's overreaction.
But it's a guilty overreaction that comes as a backlash. And notice what's happening-- we're starting to feel like, OMG, this is too much, too sudden, unfair, no due process...
It's a feature, not a bug, that overreacting to these things leads to a future discounting of, wait for it, completely justified complaints.
If the death penalty is suddenly imposed for bank robbery, of course we're all there saying, now wait a minute, and come on, it's just bank robbery!
Pretty soon we're talking about how bank robbery isn't so bad.
MrsCoffee
(5,803 posts)mercuryblues
(14,537 posts)It's about what you have been saying and doing for 40 years and management covering it up.
sweetloukillbot
(11,058 posts)He said he touched her bare back then his hand "accidentally" went six inches up her shirt.
LisaL
(44,974 posts)"I put my hand on a womans bare back, he wrote. I meant to pat her back after she told me about her unhappiness and her shirt was open and my hand went up it about six inches. She recoiled. I apologized. I sent her an email of apology later and she replied that she had forgiven me and not to think about it. We were friends. We continued to be friendly right up until her lawyer called.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2017/12/01/heres-why-the-garrison-keillor-allegations-stand-out/?utm_term=.e1dddae59eda