Sexual Harassment/Assault Scandals

Discussion in 'In the Media' started by ColiBreh1, Jul 7, 2017.

  1. Beasty

    Beasty Well-Known Member

    So where is this pay gap in favor of men that we keep hearing about?
     
  2. Thump

    Thump Well-Known Member


    The gender pay gap was never really a thing. The idea won't go away because the people who have been telling us that it exists know if people start questioning this "fact" they might start questioning other "facts" as well.
     
  3. The Dark King

    The Dark King Well-Known Member

    Its true of a very concentrated few. No man is getting more an hour at KFC its usually in positions where you negotiate a salary. Women are generally socialized to be more polite and won't fight for higher salaries the way men do. But again those are very few positions your average American just wants a living wage
     
  4. meowkittenmeow

    meowkittenmeow Well-Known Member

    It was already debunked when factoring in differences of jobs and hours worked. But, some people need to continue to push the fake narrative.

    Christina Hoff Summers went into detail about this.
     
  5. K

    K Well-Known Member

    Isn't it often that they are comparing jobs that aren't actually the same?
     
  6. The Dark King

    The Dark King Well-Known Member

    Yup that too
    I've always said if this had that much truth to it the unemployment rate amongst men would be far higher. A managers job is to make and save the company money so if you have a work force that's just as competent but will work for less why on Earth would they hire any men?
     
  7. Frederick

    Frederick Well-Known Member

  8. andreboba

    andreboba Well-Known Member


    This is the reason why you just can't assume every woman claiming she was sexually assaulted is telling the truth.

    Payne and Hughes booked hotel rooms together, attended functions and most people at Fox said what was going on was an office affair.
    The reason she's going so hard after him IMO is because she's still married and trying to save herself.

    You never know who you're messing with until you KNOW.
     
  9. Bliss

    Bliss Well-Known Member

  10. Bliss

    Bliss Well-Known Member

    HBO removes Russell Simmons from the All Def Comedy series amid sexual assault claims just a day after the music mogul quit his business empire.

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    HBO is moving on without him or his name.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5137289/HBO-removes-Russell-Simmons-Def-Comedy-series.html
     
  11. ColiBreh1

    ColiBreh1 Well-Known Member

    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/h...queen-biopic-due-bryan-singer-absence-1063710

    DECEMBER 01, 20174:49pm PT by Aaron Couch, Mia Galuppo , Borys Kit

    Fox Halts Production on Queen Biopic Due to Bryan Singer Absence
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    Sources tell THR that the director failed to return to set after the Thanksgiving holiday break.


    Fox has halted production on the studio's Queen biopic,
    Bohemian Rhapsody, due to the "unexpected unavailability" of director Bryan Singer.

    Rami Malek is starring as the legendary frontman Freddie Mercury in the movie that had been filming in London.

    "Twentieth Century Fox Film has temporarily halted production on Bohemian Rhapsody due to the unexpected unavailability of Bryan Singer," reads Fox's full statement. The crew received force majeure letters today, says one insider.

    Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that Singer failed to return to set after the Thanksgiving holiday break, leaving producers nervous about the state of the production and talking about potentially replacing him.

    In a statement to the
    BBC, a rep for the director says his absence is due to "a personal health matter concerning Bryan and his family." However, sources say that filming on the biopic has not been easy. For example, insiders tell THR that producers and his star had grown tired of Singer's behavior, which saw him routinely show up late to set. Another source has said that a cinematographer had to step in and direct during a previous "non-showing."

    This is not first time that Singer has disappeared during a production. He momentarily vanished during the shooting of X-Men: Apocalypse and during Superman Returns.

    Bohemian Rhapsody is set to hit theaters on Dec. 25, 2018.








    LOL. Dude is probably in hiding.
     
  12. samson1701

    samson1701 Well-Known Member

     
  13. The Dark King

    The Dark King Well-Known Member

    Y'all thought I was kidding. If you thought we produced a shit ton of psychopaths before you ain't seen nothing yet.
    God help us if one of these rich kids has the technical know how to control an army of robots. Mass shoots going to seen quaint.
     
  14. Soulthinker

    Soulthinker Well-Known Member

    True indeed. That relationship was intense indeed. She may have something up her sleeve soon.
     
  15. RicardoCooper

    RicardoCooper Well-Known Member

    You see how they're pushing for AI. What could possibly go wrong
     
  16. Beat-man

    Beat-man Active Member

  17. RicardoCooper

    RicardoCooper Well-Known Member

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  19. Bliss

    Bliss Well-Known Member

    Less than half of offices to serve alcohol at holiday parties this year and some will have monitors watching festivities following wave of sexual harassment allegations
    By Associated Press 04 Dec 2017

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    Survey shows only 49% of companies plan to serve alcohol at holiday events

    The reason stems from the recent high-profile workplace sex scandals

    Some companies plan to offer more food and are doing away with the open bar

    Huffington Post will be giving employees two tickets they can redeem for drinks

    The company recently fired its editorial director, Lockhart Steele, after a former employee made allegations of sexual harassment against him

    Some will have party monitors, keeping an eye out for inappropriate behavior

    With a series of high-profile workplace sex scandals on their minds, employers are making sure their holiday office parties don't become part of the problem.

    There will be less booze at many. An independent business organization has renewed its annual warning not to hang mistletoe. And some will have party monitors, keeping an eye out for inappropriate behavior.

    According to a survey by Chicago-based consulting company Challenger, Gray & Christmas, only 49 per cent of companies plan to serve alcohol at their holiday events.

    Last year that number was 62 per cent, the highest number in the decade the firm has run its survey.

    TV and movies often depict office parties as wildly inappropriate bacchanals or excruciatingly awkward fiascoes, if not, horrifyingly, both.

    But even a regular office party can be complicated because the rules people normally observe at work don't quite apply, which makes it easier for people to accidentally cross a line - or try to get away with serious misbehavior. Especially when too much drinking is involved.

    'As soon as you introduce alcohol at an off-site activity, peoples' guards are dropped,' said Ed Yost, manager of employee relations and development for the Society for Human Resource Management based in Alexandria, Virginia.

    'It's presumed to be a less formal, more social environment. Some people will drink more than they typically would on a Friday night or a Saturday because it's an open bar or a free cocktail hour.'

    The Huffington Post reported Friday that Vox Media, which runs sites including Vox and Recode, won't have an open bar this year at its holiday party and will instead give employees two tickets they can redeem for drinks.

    It will also have more food than in years past. The company recently fired its editorial director, Lockhart Steele, after a former employee made allegations of sexual harassment against him.

    A survey by Bloomberg Law said those kinds of safeguards are common: while most companies ask bartenders or security or even some employees to keep an eye on how much partygoers are drinking, others limit the number of free drinks or the time they're available. A small minority have cash bars instead of an open bar.

    The National Federation of Independent Businesses recommends all of those steps, and adds another that might seem obvious these days: don't hang mistletoe. It's been giving those suggestions for several years.

    Yost said he always gets a lot of requests for advice in planning and managing these events, but he's getting even more of them this year.

    He said he'll be spending his corporate holiday party the way he always does: patrolling hallways, checking secluded areas and trying to watch for people who look like they are stuck in an uncomfortable situation - for example, inappropriate touching or a conversation that's taken a bad turn.

    If they're visibly uncomfortable, he'll intervene and plan a later conversation with the person responsible.

    The Challenger, Gray & Christmas survey shows that about 80 per cent of companies will have a holiday party, the same as last year. And not everyone is planning changes.

    Anthony Vitiello, the marketing director for software company Anton Robb Group, said he planned his company's event and didn't rethink it.

    For the last few years the firm's has marked the holiday with drinks and passed hors d'oeuvres in the wide cellar of a local restaurant. Vitiello thinks the formal setting makes the event calmer.

    'We haven't had any incidents, not a single one I can recall, where anyone got loud or over-consumed,' he said. He added that many of his company's 25 employees go out for drinks once a month, and he's not aware of any cases of misconduct.

    Yost said he's not making changes to his group's event either. He added that companies concerned about sexual misconduct need to look further than the holiday party.

    'While there are additional complications that are associated with a holiday event, that's one day a year,' he said.
     
  20. Bliss

    Bliss Well-Known Member

    Put more women in power because men are 'having problems', Barack Obama says
    'Women seem to have a better capacity than men do,' Democrat adds

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    Barack Obama may have a solution to fixing the country's biggest problems... and that starts with a hiring process.

    The former President believes more women should be in power to make political decisions, stating "because men seem to be having some problems these days," according to AFP.

    It comes from the ongoing sexual assault allegations across Hollywood, politics, and around the world. The two-term president feels optimistic about leadership in the future and it starts with more inclusion in the workplace.

    "Not to generalize but women seem to have a better capacity [for leadership] than men do, partly because of their socialization," he told the crowd.

    http://mashable.com/2017/12/04/barack-obama-leadership-women/
     

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