COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY JOSIE COX IN THE INDEPENDENT
Having reported on the
still very alpha male-dominated world of business and finance for the last
eight years, I could write a book about the sexist remarks and inappropriate
jibes I’ve been on the receiving end of
"We’re still
dangerously unaware of the full extent of sexual harassment in the
workplace"
Yes, of course we are, just as we are dangerously unaware of
many, many things where people with power secretly hurt others.
How about the half million killed in Syria, including many
women and children, by the US and its allies (including Britain) using mercenaries
who pretend to be jihadists?
How about the horrors Israel imposes on Gaza? How many
readers could cite one of them?
How about America's dangerous nonsense about Russia?
When some men are very powerful and those who oppose them
are weak, there is always abuse and even horrors. We should all understand this
instinctively. There is nothing surprising about it when it happens.
