Harassment ...A Few More Thoughts

  Have you had conversations with your friends or family about these never ending sexual harassment claims? Are you ever shocked by their response? Do you give a "pass" so to speak to those who are very old? Does it make you angry when women are unsympathetic? And defeated when men are?

  I was trying to explain to my husband last night that I am angrier at the women who don't support the accusers than I am at the men who have been the harassers. I say this with 100% belief...men cannot comprehend what women go through on a daily basis. No man can. Yes, yes, yes they can sympathize and have empathy for us but they cannot fully understand it. But other women? We ALL know what's what. The fact that we cannot support each other is maddening.

  Take Pamela Anderson's comments this week. As someone who has earned a living based on her sexuality, one would think she would be the poster child for sympathy. Nope. Instead she went to the old adages....going to a hotel room for an audition, what did you think would happen, why would she ever do that....blah blah blah. The only thing she didn't say was "what was she wearing"?! We've all heard these comments said at rape trials over the years. As if as women we aren't entitled to wear whatever we want, go where ever we want and meet whom ever we want. I couldn't believe what I was reading.

  If women can't support each other in this how are we ever going to get men to behave like respectful human beings? If women can't give each other the benefit of the doubt, how do we get those men in power to change their ways? 

  Women are on the brink of a massive change. For the first time in history, we have joined together from all walks of life and shown the powerful men who feel they can say, or do, anything to us, that there are consequences to their actions. That harassment will not be tolerated. Not by us or by their employers. That the harassment will be dealt with swiftly. That you will lose your job and position and the entire world will be made aware of your actions. What a great ending to 2017!


   Except, of course, if you are #45!

  Ang