tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855180793926350647.post515067763409375244..comments2024-03-16T19:27:07.142-04:00Comments on Ol'Buzzard's World View: MEN BEHAVING BADLYOl'Buzzardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00075162476463971258noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855180793926350647.post-65630026516465684112017-12-23T11:09:07.827-05:002017-12-23T11:09:07.827-05:00Wow! Excellent post guy. As a male of this screw...Wow! Excellent post guy. As a male of this screwed up species, I can definitely relate. <br /><br />But then the ladies piped up. Another Wow! <br /><br />Good points made all around. And yet while we all can see the problem, no one seems to know what to do about it. Any reaction now seems too much or not enough.MRMacrumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01414173517957120477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855180793926350647.post-59849770647481018342017-12-20T08:46:37.079-05:002017-12-20T08:46:37.079-05:00It's never been about sex, you know. It's ...It's never been about sex, you know. It's about the abuse of power. The only reason it's been so focused on men's bad behavior is there haven't been enough women in positions of power for the power-tripping female jerks to emerge. I am amused by your naïve belief that if only women were running the world things would be different. At least two of my male colleagues were sexually harassed by female supervisors at a government agency (one had his junk grabbed by a supervisor many pay grades above him, another was verbally abused after she found out he wasn't interested in her because he was gay). If I can think of two without working at it and I have a fairly small circle of acquaintances, how many more are out there? Yes, many men have behaved badly for decades and payback can be a bitch -- but a world run by women would not automatically be an improvement. <br /><br />As for why the power-tripping behavior tends to manifest as sexual abuse, I'd say the answer is pretty obvious. Sex is where we're all at our most vulnerable and insecure. If you're going to be abusive, you're going to hit where it's going to be the hardest to deal with. <br /><br />Commensurate with the notion that women would be kinder, less sociopathic as supervisors is the idea that they're be less warlike in foreign policy. If women ran the world, we'd be less likely to get entangled in senseless conflicts. I'll just drop a few names and see how that less hawk-like caricature stands up: Indira Gandhi. Golda Meir. Margaret Thatcher. We currently have a Nobel Peace Prize winner sloughing off genocide in Myanmar so I don't see where having a woman achieve some power there has helped an oppressed minority there. Hillary Clinton was widely acknowledged as being one of the most hawkish people in the Obama administration, possibly because she learned realpolitik at Kissinger's knee, and Madeline Albright wasn't exactly the kumbaya type either. Nanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18359007443116549436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855180793926350647.post-60418989200093211162017-12-19T20:41:15.110-05:002017-12-19T20:41:15.110-05:00I teach every other kind of character development ...I teach every other kind of character development in school, so I wouldn't mind teaching lessons about how the genders should treat each other. Too many youngsters don't have good role models for respectful, upright behavior.Anne Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15478513906953607043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855180793926350647.post-88632331428339180282017-12-19T17:49:15.841-05:002017-12-19T17:49:15.841-05:00Just a couple of oh so small edits . . . "It ...Just a couple of oh so small edits . . . "It is also a reality that a woman’s career, her employability, her finances, her family, and her life can be destroyed by one incident of sexual harassment in the past, present or future." But that's never really been a concern to anyone before, has it?<br /><br />And remember that employers are vicariously liable for the actions of their employees. So yeah, boss, go ahead, roll the dice and hire that man over a woman. He could end up costing you a helluva lot more than the price of a maternity leave or two. Debra She Who Seekshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01845703092794695023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855180793926350647.post-50749096016575818202017-12-19T17:40:53.620-05:002017-12-19T17:40:53.620-05:00Friend of mine received a very dirty joke in her e...Friend of mine received a very dirty joke in her email from a superior. She shared the joke with coworkers. One of them reported her for sharing the joke. The joke was deemed inappropriate, she was fired. However, the male superior who sent the unwanted joke, also on work time from his work computer, is still employed.<br /><br />She showed the joke out of her own sense of embarrassment instead of doing what she should have done, which is report him. Sherryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00944532662261333590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855180793926350647.post-37142394266047024992017-12-19T15:17:30.887-05:002017-12-19T15:17:30.887-05:00I'm done. I ain't touching that shit any m...I'm done. I ain't touching that shit any more.Leannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02313664441343901006noreply@blogger.com