Companies play hard

[Soldier]

I was watching North Country I found it interesting to note that the first thing her company did was to get not only the best high priced lawyer, but they went and found the best high priced female lawyer. I find that's a classic thing that harassers will try to do, they will try to use your own against you, it's a classic harassment ploy and the interesting thing is that it works pretty well.

There is always someone who is willing to be bought or sold, someone with a lack of scruples who is willing to go along with whatever is happening for the few scraps that will be offered to them, someone willing to sell out. In the real life version of North Country Lois Jensen not only had to battle against the company she worked for, but also the woman who worked at the mines. She was harassed by the very woman who were also being harassed. They hung a noose at her locker to try to keep her quite about the harassment, harassment they were all suffering. At least in their case I think they were just scared. The trial lawyer who represented the company is another story. I always wonder how she could represent a company like that, and I wondered what would have happened if the class action lawsuit had not been won, it was the first of it's kind. It helped establish sexual harassment policies across America and yet it might not have been. Harassers will always try to use your own against you, it's a standard ploy. I think what has to change is that people have to stop going along with things just because they can. I think people have to stop choosing the lowest common denominator. I think people have to be stop being willing to sell out to the highest bidder, for peanuts. I also think woman and men have to realise that the harm they do to others goes way further than just one incident. Each situation sets the precedence for future situations.

Maybe you thought it was funny to help harass the person at your school or office, but someday you might have children and someday what you help create might be the world that they have to grow up in, the dirt that you help to cover will be the mire that your own might have to face someday. Harassers never think that they might have a child someday who is not a mindless drone, who might not go along with everything a school or company tries to throw at them. They never think that one of their own might someday find themselves being harassed by the same systems they helped create with their participation and complacence. Too many people think harassment will never happen to them or to someone they know, but the world is changing fast. The harassment statistics for adults and children are staggering. For schools it's estimated that 1 in 3 girls have experienced sexual harassment and 1 in 5 boys.

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think awareness and the clique culture of keeping silent and turning a blind eye or participating in such actions is the first thing that has to change.Children at an early stage have to learn what harassment is so that when they see it or experience it they can identify it for what it is. Adults have to recognize it's not just a part of childhood. Children every year in every country kill themselves because of this phenomenon. The term bullycide has been coined due to this happening so frequently. With all the education and programs in place the tide is not changing for the better, it's becoming more widespread and worst. Worst because the people in positions of power who have a moral responsibility to do something are not taking the steps that need to be taken.