Have a feeling that Steve Sack could be using this cartoon again with a bigger wagon:
I’m pretty sure Roy Moore will be the next to be thrown into the wagon. Glad to see Sack is a fan of Monty Python.
What if men who gain a sense of power through sexual harassment are also unduly lured by the power of public office? That would mean that such men are disproportionately present in the political arena, relative to the population at large. Perhaps candidates for public office, especially men, should be required to go through a process that ascertains their psychological fitness to bear the burdens of high public office. This may sound weird, but then again, I am.
Great headline. Do TPM editors really think Congress needs mandatory how-to training for sexual harassment?
Not just the officeholders but the senior staffers as well. I recall a classmate whose intended career path was to become a legislative aide to some republican congressman for “62,5 a year and all the secretaries you can ****.” I know he got a job in DC, might have become a lobbyist instead.
Perhaps all Congressional staffers need to have their cell phone cameras ready when they meet with a member of Congress or high level Congressman staffer.
I’ve worked for firms that had all new employees read the company policy on sexual harassment with descriptions of such behavior. It warned that dismissal was the punishment for engaging in such behavior. The employee would have to sign that he/she read and understood the policy and would abide by it. My sense was that it was effective.
I’ve also overheard women tell a man something on the order of: “Don’t talk to me like that. I’ll tell your boss – or your wife”. My sense was that it, too, was effective.
The worse sexual harassment I witnessed was in “urbane” NYC in a Fortune 500 company branch ,office. Lowlifes in suits and ties. It was done by an identifiable and relatively small corps of men who were responsible for maybe 90% of it.