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Tuesday, July 09, 2002
 
Sexual Harassment

Via InstaPundit: There is a very good editorial piece in the Detroit News today arguing against the constitutionality of Michigan's sexual harassment laws. I think that the day-to-day work environment at many large corporations has realy gotten out of hand. Men avoid women out of fear that a glance, a look, a comment, or a turn-of-phrase could be taken the wrong way. You can't talk too much about the NFL because there are no women in the league and all of this talk about football leads to a hostile work environment.

I have been through formal sexual harassment training with three different companies. The clear intention of each session was to scare the shit out of every male employee in the room. "If you even think about using the phrase dangling modifier you will be terminated immediately." I'm not going to suggest that there aren't real cases out there; I know there are. But I think the article makes a very good point in regards to protected speech being muted at too high a cost.