America's love-hate affair with a hashtag
It's the definition of "sexual harassment" and how and when to distinguish it from sexual assault and abuse that has become the most contentious issue in the ongoing debate
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DURING the late 1960s when I was in high-school (so now you can figure out my age), I took a summer job working with the CEO of a company, who before leaving office for the day had this habit of slapping his female secretary's backside.
I vividly recall that everyone at the office, including the secretary herself, would respond with a big LOL. Everyone seemed to think that that was really funny. Sexual harassment? I don't think anyone in the office was using that term then.
So, yes, we've come a long way since the days when the line between flirting with women and harassing them didn't exist, when being exposed to the unwanted sexual advances of the boss was part of the job requirements of a female secretary known today as "administrative assistant".
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