Note To GOP "10 Percent Of Women Are Told Their Job Will Improve If They Are ‘Sexually Cooperative’"

[kpete]

As GOP Belittles Cain Allegations, 10 Percent Of Women Are Told Their Job Will Improve If They Are ‘Sexually Cooperative’
By Ian Millhiser posted from ThinkProgress Justice on Nov 3, 2011 at 4:00 pm

It’s not surprising that Republicans leaped to presidential candidate Herman Cain’s defense after allegations that he sexually harassed some of his employees in the 1990s resurfaced this week, despite the fact that those allegations have neither been proven or disproven. Many Republicans, however, have gone much further — claiming that sexual harassment allegations are, in Rush Limbaugh’s words, “a political tool of the left to get rid of people, or to score money gains.” Americans for Herman Cain blasted out a fundraising email headlined, “Don’t let the media ‘lynch’ another black Conservative.” And the National Review actually published this gem:

There has never in the history of the world been a people better mannered and less inclined to insulting acts of prejudice than today’s Americans, yet we’re supposed to believe that the nation is seething with “harassment” and “discrimination,” women being groped in every business office and crosses burning on every lawn. For Heaven’s sake. Aren’t there any grown-ups around?


Herman Cain’s many apologists are deeply and tragically wrong. A recent University of Michigan study found that nine in 10 women workers will experience “offensive sexist remarks or being told that they could not do their job properly due to their sex,” and the women who only endure these conditions will be the lucky ones. A massive one in 10 women in the workplace will at some point be “promised promotion or better treatment if they are ‘sexually cooperative‘” with a co-worker or supervisor.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/11/03/360313/cain-one-in-ten-women-sexual-harassment/
Distress: A vast majority of women workers have experienced 'gender harassment', which includes offensive sexist remarks or being told that they could not do their job properly due to their sex
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1302016/90-women-sexually-harassed-workplace.html#ixzz1cg7iqYA3
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1302016/90-women-sexually-harassed-workplace.html

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. GOP RESPONSE: What a great idea! Why didn't I do that

before?

[libinnyandia]

2. The GOP and sexxual harassment

One would think the GOP, with its strong "family values" tradition, would condemn any form of sexual harassment. Apparently they consider male superiority to be more important. Women should be submissive to men and if women are offended by a man's words or behavior they should "take it like a man." Unless, of course, the man is a Democrat.

[surrealAmerican]

3. It should be noted that ...

... it is a small minority of men who harass women in their workplaces, but those who do tend to harass a lot of women, which is how we get large percentages of women affected even though most men wouldn't behave in that manner.

[HockeyMom]

4. Sexually, no, but good little "girl"

yes. Back in the 60s and 70s in corporate America. Want coffee? My "girl" will make it for you! Need a present for your family member? My GIRL will go on HER lunch time and shop for it. Oh, been there, done that, until this GIRL told them to stick it, as a married, middle aged, WOMAN.

[Motown_Johnny]

5. Obedient Women Seldom Make History

A bumper sticker I saw today.


Plain black lettering on a plain white background (possibly homemade).



Just thought I would share.