# Sexual Harassment/Assault/Workplace Bullying omnibus thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 4, 2017, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-harassment-assault-workplace-bullying-omnibus-thread/803573 "2017-12-04T20:36:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-harassment-assault-workplace-bullying-omnibus-thread/803573/61 "2017-12-14T20:19:14Z")
> [@Dr.Crap](#): > > They didn’t renew with him because he’s insensitive and a dumbass…but who expected him to be otherwise? [His Wikipedia page has a section titled “Legal Issues and controversies”.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_Canseco#Legal_issues_and_controversies) I barely know who he is. I had no idea he was a commentator. I just read the Tweets. They definitely have the feel of, “I’ve said dumbshit stuff like this before.” ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Crap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.crap/32/3131_2.png) [@Dr.Crap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Crap)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-harassment-assault-workplace-bullying-omnibus-thread/803573/62 "2017-12-14T22:43:29Z")
Yeah, he’s been a repeat fuck-up for decades. He was accused of rape a few years ago but NBC Sports California chose this moment of insensitivity to shame him and bloviate about their supposed values. _Someone_ over there hired him. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-harassment-assault-workplace-bullying-omnibus-thread/803573/63 "2017-12-14T23:29:25Z")
Maybe that woman he raped was just being racist against ugly men. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Crap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.crap/32/3131_2.png) [@Dr.Crap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Crap)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-harassment-assault-workplace-bullying-omnibus-thread/803573/64 "2017-12-15T00:31:51Z")
Maybe. That and women being racist against his personality is the national conversation we should have next. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-harassment-assault-workplace-bullying-omnibus-thread/803573/65 "2017-12-15T00:58:39Z")
I just read the account of the 17 year old girl that suicided Kentucky lawmaker raped, and I’m so pissed off right now. I want to bash his fucking head in. I want to help her somehow. She probably feels responsible for his death, and she loved him once, he was like a father to her and he betrayed her, and now he’s dead. She’s going to have to deal with that for the rest of her life, while people look down on her and shame her just for telling the truth. I wonder if there’s any way I _can_ help her. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-harassment-assault-workplace-bullying-omnibus-thread/803573/66 "2017-12-15T02:18:33Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > It sounds like he’s the first one to speak out and confess before anyone even called him on it. It sounds like he’s doing the right thing. Gives me some hope. I strongly disagree with you: he’s a blameshifting sleazebag\* of unprecedented magnitude. [Here’s his actual statement](http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sqc244) It boils down to > [@](#): > > [I did those things and I feel icky 'cause I’m gonna get caught.] But why? What caused me to act this way? Is it all ego? Or was it the sexual abuse I suffered as a boy and as a young man in my teens? Abuse that I only ever told to my first wife, for fear of being seen as weak or less than a man? > > Is it because my father left my mother when I was child? Or that she believed he never respected her, so that disrespect carried over into their son? What a fucking asshole. The correct way to do an apology is “What I did to those women was wrong. I apologize and won’t do it again.” Not “Waaaaah! My daddy issues made me rape those women so it’s kinda not my fault ☹ .” \*See Al Franken’s and Louis CK’s fake “Sorry/NOT SORRY” faux apologies for others of this ilk. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-harassment-assault-workplace-bullying-omnibus-thread/803573/67 "2017-12-15T02:45:02Z")
You know, the best I ever got from my adoptive father to account for six years of sexual abuse was “mistakes were made.” I would have killed for a response like Spurlock’s. It’s all relative. ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-harassment-assault-workplace-bullying-omnibus-thread/803573/68 "2017-12-15T18:00:38Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > It sounds like he’s the first one to speak out and confess before anyone even called him on it. It sounds like he’s doing the right thing. Gives me some hope. I must be a cynic; based on this sentence, combined with his retweeting of all the back-pats, made it sound to me like a combination of fear that “I’m next, so I better get my self-serving side out before someone else does,” and trolling for atta-boys. > [@Spurlock](#): > > “As I sit around watching hero after hero, man after man, fall at the realisation of their past indiscretions, I don’t sit by and wonder ‘who will be next?’ I wonder, ‘when will they come for me?’,” he wrote. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-harassment-assault-workplace-bullying-omnibus-thread/803573/69 "2017-12-15T19:09:19Z")
Although Weinstein is old news, Salma Hayek’s revelation of [what he did to her](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/13/opinion/contributors/salma-hayek-harvey-weinstein.html?smid=tw-share) throughout the making of **Frida** is chilling. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-harassment-assault-workplace-bullying-omnibus-thread/803573/70 "2017-12-16T16:18:00Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > … **10 years** of complaints. > > Here is his statement in response: > > I will leave it to others whether these words are sufficient. Not sufficient at all. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-harassment-assault-workplace-bullying-omnibus-thread/803573/71 "2017-12-16T16:25:37Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Chuck Schumer has filed a report with the Capitol police that someone is pushing a false sexual harassment claim against him. The woman who is alleged to have filed the complaint said her name was forged on the documents and none of the incidents occurred. > [https://www.yahoo.com/gma/sen-chuck-schumer-alerts-police-alleged-plot-smear-114604989--abc-news-topstories.html](https://www.yahoo.com/gma/sen-chuck-schumer-alerts-police-alleged-plot-smear-114604989--abc-news-topstories.html) Quite a few people expected that sort of thing to start happening. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-harassment-assault-workplace-bullying-omnibus-thread/803573/72 "2017-12-16T18:56:35Z")
Now that NBC’s running ads for the Olympics w/ athlete pics, I was surprised Shaun White will be competing considering his…[difficulties](https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2017/05/16/shaun-white-sexual-harassment-lawsuit-settlement-reached-female-drummer/101752550/)last year. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-harassment-assault-workplace-bullying-omnibus-thread/803573/73 "2017-12-16T20:59:27Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Canseco loses analyst job after tweets about sexual assault he says were a joke](https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/canseco-loses-analyst-job-after-tweets-about-sexual-assault-he-says-were-a-joke/) The most surprising thing about that is that someone gave him a job. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-harassment-assault-workplace-bullying-omnibus-thread/803573/74 "2017-12-17T00:11:18Z")
> [@Jeff\_Lichtman](#): > > Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Funniest thing I’ve read in a long time! > > Seriously, in order to be shamed into resigned he would have to be capable of feeling shame. He only cares about winning, and that’s all. There is no remorse in his reptilian brain stem. He has to be forced out. However… As long as the traitors and Putin’s stooges hold the House, Senate, and White House, that will never happen. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-harassment-assault-workplace-bullying-omnibus-thread/803573/75 "2017-12-17T01:19:36Z")
The irony is strong with this one. [Anita Hill Chairs Hollywood Anti-Sexual Harassment Commission Formed by Top Execs](http://variety.com/2017/film/news/anita-hill-sexual-harassment-commission-1202643105/) ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-harassment-assault-workplace-bullying-omnibus-thread/803573/76 "2017-12-17T03:50:43Z")
> [@MovieMogul](#): > > Although Weinstein is old news, Salma Hayek’s revelation of [what he did to her](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/13/opinion/contributors/salma-hayek-harvey-weinstein.html?smid=tw-share) throughout the making of **Frida** is chilling. And rings whole carrillions to anybody who’s been there. It’s “yep… yep… oooh yeah… yep…” The bits about Weinstein being so nice in public contexts? Oooooh yes, I know that guy. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-harassment-assault-workplace-bullying-omnibus-thread/803573/77 "2017-12-18T19:05:38Z")
[Federal appeals judge announces immediate retirement amid investigation prompted by multiple accusations of sexual misconduct](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/federal-appeals-judge-announces-immediate-retirement-amid-investigation-prompted-by-multiple-accusations-of-sexual-misconduct/ar-BBGXUaa?li=BBnb7Kz) > [@](#): > > In a statement provided by his lawyer, Kozinski apologized, saying he “had a broad sense of humor and a candid way of speaking to both male and female law clerks alike,” and “In doing so, I may not have been mindful enough of the special challenges and pressures that women face in the workplace.” Translation: The chicks had no sense of humor. They didn’t know I was _joking._ Now they are being mean to me. ☹ What an asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-harassment-assault-workplace-bullying-omnibus-thread/803573/78 "2017-12-18T19:15:01Z")
Jerry Jones doesn’t think Richardson should get out of football > **[Jerry Jones laments Richardson's exit: 'I'm sad'](https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/21801332/jerry-jones-laments-jerry-richardson-exit-ranks-nfl-sad)** > > Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said he will miss Jerry Richardson after the Panthers owner announced Sunday amid allegations of workplace misconduct that he will sell the team. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-harassment-assault-workplace-bullying-omnibus-thread/803573/79 "2017-12-18T19:16:07Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > [Federal appeals judge announces immediate retirement amid investigation prompted by multiple accusations of sexual misconduct](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/federal-appeals-judge-announces-immediate-retirement-amid-investigation-prompted-by-multiple-accusations-of-sexual-misconduct/ar-BBGXUaa?li=BBnb7Kz) > > Translation: The chicks had no sense of humor. They didn’t know I was _joking._ Now they are being mean to me. ☹ > > What an asshole. ‘I’m not guilty but I will accept punishment as though I am guilty. Sure, it makes no sense, as I have access to some of the best legal counsel money can buy; but I’m happy to pretend I did wrong just so women who can’t take a joke feel better about themselves.’ - said no innocent person ever. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2017, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-harassment-assault-workplace-bullying-omnibus-thread/803573/80 "2017-12-27T16:06:27Z")
[Corey Lewandowski](http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/366506-pro-trump-singer-files-sexual-assault-report-against-corey?amp&__twitter_impression=true), come on down! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-harassment-assault-workplace-bullying-omnibus-thread/803573.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-harassment-assault-workplace-bullying-omnibus-thread/803573.md?page=5)