America's love-hate affair with a hashtag

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 lin…