http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/04/21/MNGMRICQKV1.DTL
There are a lot of things that are in desparate need of change in U.S. society. Many of them are things without a clear right/wrong or yes/no answer. The illegal immigrant issue (and, for that matter, legal immigrant...when and why did they stop having the right to vote? hint; the answer is jingoism) too, for that matter. Gender roles...and what gender is. Belief systems. Speech, and what constitutes "free" and "restrictive".
The referenced lawsuit is certainly one of those issues. Seriously, you go to work on a job where the theme is sex jokes, the warning ahead of time is sex jokes, the roles are about sex, then you are offended by the juvenile, over the top sex jokes? Just...stop. Are the jokes lame, immature, rude, crass, and offensive? Yes. Did you take the position knowing that going in? Yes. So the level of crassness surprised you. Get over it, move on. You were looking for a job when you found that one. Why is there a surprise what you found?
Many things will change, but one probably never will; where there are guys writing comedy about sex there are going to be crude jokes, references, suggestions, gestures, comments, thoughts, etc. Should it be that way? Of course not, that is one of the things we as a society need to change, but at some point reality has to overtake fantasy. What next, someone working at a strip club suing because people ogling her are sexually harrassing her?
4 years ago
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It's one thing to make jokes, but explain to me why it was okay for these jerkoffs to pantomime jerking themselves off and talk about screwing the actresses in the first place? Real professional behavior.
And I'm sure they all had dicks the size of peanuts.
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