Sexual Assault/Harassment/Misconduct

Have you ever been sexually harassed?

  • Yes, more than once.

    Votes: 14 77.8%

  • Yes, once.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • I'm not sure.

    Votes: 1 5.6%

  • No, never.

    Votes: 3 16.7%
  • Total voters
    18
And here we have it, folks: the new evangelical Christian excuse for adults to have sex with minors:

An Alabama state official on Thursday dismissed a Washington Post report alleging that GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore had initiated a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl decades ago, saying there was an age gap between the biblical Joseph and Mary. The Post also alleged that Moore had pursued three others when they were between the ages of 16 and 18 and he was in his early 30s.
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“Take Joseph and Mary. Mary was a teenager and Joseph was an adult carpenter. They became parents of Jesus,” Alabama State Auditor Jim Ziegler told The Washington Examiner. “There’s just nothing immoral or illegal here. Maybe just a little bit unusual.”
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Alabama state official defends Roy Moore, citing Joseph and Mary: ‘They became parents of Jesus’
 
It's perhaps time for police, universities, schools, larger workplaces and other establishments to develop an online system enabling users to report sexual assault (and perhaps other crimes) discreetly online with the option that the report will not be ever seen by anyone unless others have reported the same person. In which cases both reports are forwarded at the same time once the second one is made.

For one thing this has the benefit than you can immediately write down what happened to you while it's fresh in your mind and the details are more accurate. It also has the benefit that you don't have to go through the frightening process of reporting a person, sitting at the police station, going to your boss or school counseller or whoever wondering if you will be believed or just create a backlash against yourself.

This TED talk (only 6 minutes) explains more, and says that the system is in trials and claims that is the system that US college assault victims want.

One argument against this idea is that we shouldn't be encouraging someone to NOT report something serious, and I think it is a valid argument, but could be countered by having some text in the process of the online submission that actually encourages the user to submit the information immediately, offering discreteness, privacy and that the user will not be made to come forward publically unless they agree.

With the so, so, so many cases I've heard of sexual predators that had many victims and none came forward, and then when one does, there is suddenly another 20 or another 40....I think the benefits of this system outweight the negatives.

Thoughts?
 
The whole of Hollywood or the whole acting industry could also have a system specific to that.

One argument against the system I suggest could be that this is the system that should have been have been in place in the last few decades, but its introduction now would be too late. That we may be moving into a new era in which sexual assault victims feel completely emboldened to report anything immediately, and speak out, and that such a system is not needed. However, I think that will be not true, or only partly true.

I think that at least some people will still feel great embarassment, blaming themselves, fear of reporting for a very very long time more.
 
I reckon nearly every woman has been sexually harassed at some point, surely?

Funny thing is, until all this has been happening, I thought it was a shitty thing that you had to just deal with. (obviously not referring to rape or the more extreme side of it.)
 
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