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The only way I ever managed to speak up about sexual harassment, etc, was by not doing it on my own behalf - having it firmly in my head that while I, of course, was totally unfazed by having a senior partner in a law firm come up to me on the first day of a temp secretary job and ask me whether I'd been sexually assaulted often*, he might do it to someone else, who would freak out about it. I think it's a real double-bind for f-i people, in that you don't want to 'make a fuss' and be 'humourless' and a 'victim', but on the other hand, if you don't speak out in your own name, nothing ever gets done. So a bit of doublethink, or at least thinking about yourself as the representative of a class rather than as an individual whose breasts, so to speak, are on the line, is probably the best way to go...
*I know, wtf? |
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