Reviewing Workplace Harassment Training For Woke Companies
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Summary
In this episode, we review examples of severe and pervasive sexual harassment in the workplace, and discuss how our culture has become so hedonistic and sexually open about sex at the same time, that we have to be careful about what we say and do.
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So if you follow this channel, you know that we've been reviewing workplace sensitivity training
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courses, the kind that a lot of HR departments force their employees to watch. Mine doesn't,
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but I've taken on this project anyway by choice because of my deep-seated masochism and self-hatred.
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The company that makes these videos is called M-Train. They work with a lot of major companies
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to help indoctrinate, I mean educate, educate people on how to avoid harassing, assaulting,
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or being racist towards their co-workers. A lot of times we'll watch a bunch of videos,
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but this time I want to focus on just one because this I believe is the worst one yet,
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the absolute worst. It's the worst because of the real world consequences of, if not this specific
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video, the sort of thing the video represents. So you'll see what I mean. We'll get into this now.
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This is titled Examples of Severe and Pervasive Workplace Harassment. So let's check this out.
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So will I see you at that three o'clock? Yeah, I'll be there. Oh, you got, um, got it.
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So that's what they mean. So let's go through these. I took notes. I wrote this down. Not
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really, but this is severe and pervasive harassment. Severe and pervasive. And the
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examples are, we start with somebody pick some lint off of her shirt. Okay. Now that one, a little
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inappropriate. You know, you didn't appear to touch her breast, but too close for comfort for
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her, perhaps a little bit iffy harassment though. I don't think so. Severe. Come on. And the other
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thing is a common thread we see in all these incidents. The person who's the victim doesn't
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speak up for themselves. Like if you're uncomfortable with somebody touching you, say something, speak up
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for yourself. Then she briefly hears a guy say the word sex to another guy as they're coming off an
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elevator. Harassment. No, it's not even directed to her. Severe. What, what is this? Victorian England.
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See, this shows how our culture has, has at once become hedonistic and way too open about sex
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at the same time. So you think about songs like, like WAP, for example. Okay. We have songs like
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that, but then at the same time we're like downright puritanical. So you touch a woman's sweater or say
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a word around her and you're essentially guilty of sexual assault. But then WAP is a popular song.
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It's the strangest dynamic. You can make a song graphically describing various intimate areas of
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the body at various states of arousal. And that's fine. You can put that one on it at Applebee's while
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the family's eating dinner at 5 p.m. No problem. But a woman literally hears a guy say sex and she's
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been assaulted. Next, a guy calls her hot. Okay, again, shouldn't be saying that at work. Not professional.
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Harassment? It's a compliment. Severe? Severe what? Severe complimenting? She's a victim of severe
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complimenting. And then a few days later, she overhears two guys in a stairwell talking about
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somebody else's outfit, saying that some other woman is wearing a tight dress. Once again,
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inappropriate for the workplace or harassment? Of her? It wasn't directed at her, nor was it about
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her. Either way, she was literally on a different floor of the building hearing it said about somebody
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else. And she's being harassed? I mean, get over yourself, darling. Not everyone's focused on you.
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And next, again, she overhears. I mean, this girl cannot stop eavesdropping. She's just constantly
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listening, looking at what's on people's screens. She overhears two guys talking about presumably
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some other woman who they think shouldn't have been promoted. So what? Nothing sexual about that.
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Nothing gender specific. It's not about her. Not directed to her. Then after that, you have two dudes
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looking over towards her when she bends down. Then another guy is looking in her direction.
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You know, again, iffy. I mean, that could go either way. And I guess we're supposed to assume
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he was looking at her breasts. And then she sees the wallpaper on somebody's laptop. And there are
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pictures of scantily clad women who are mostly covered up. It looks like they're wearing bathing
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suits. And then somebody taps her on the hip so they can get past her. So that's it. That's all we got.
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There are maybe two or three actually inappropriate behaviors documented in the video. None of them
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are severe or close to severe. If a guy saying sex is severe harassment, then what word do we use
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to describe actual harassment? Because if non-harassment is severe, then what do we say about
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real harassment when it actually happens? I guess non-harassment is severe harassment. So real
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harassment is now like what? Fatal? It's fatal harassment. The consequence again is that women,
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you know, they take this stuff to heart because they're brainwashed by garbage like this. And next
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thing you know, lives are ruined. That's the consequence. That woman in the video is going to go
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file a lawsuit, get a whole bunch of people fired. But on the bright side, at least we're protecting,
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you know, the ladies from hearing the word sex at work, which will give them great comfort as they
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drive home in the evening, listening to Cardi B sing about her genitals.