Work-wife mentality and the matter of sexual harassment

By Sharon Stoner

Jill Filipovic’s January 20 NY Times article, “Donald Trump and His Work Wives,” goes to a vital organ of the matter of “sexual harassment” (and other offenses, in or out of offices). The terms “work wife” and “work husband,” she explains, originally described “typically benign egalitarian workplace intimacies: a close co-worker with whom you share not only tasks but also complaints and office gossip.”

Sex and the Court of Public Opinion

By Jonathan Price

Matt Lauer calls a woman into his office, locks the door via remote control under his desk, gets her to remove her blouse, then sexually assaults her from behind until she faints, and a nurse is summoned. Or that’s what I remember from the vivid and arresting account in the New York Times. The general direction of the article was that Lauer was summarily removed from his position on the Today show at NBC; though later a former NBC executive asserted that there were no complaints, rumors, or suggestions of sexual harassment while he had run the network. It’s fairly clear that there was a significant time lapse between the office assault and Lauer’s departure.

Sheep No More?

By Sharon Stoner

Ever ask yourself why people have “overlooked” the sexual misconduct of powerful men?
    Has it been out of respect for their positions, admiration for all they own, a hope someday to acquire similar power and wealth?

Penny for Her Thoughts: The State of Man

By Penelope Griffiths

Every day it seems that some rich or powerful, or both rich and powerful, man – on both sides of the pond that is the Atlantic Ocean – is being outed for sexual harassment or worse! It is never acceptable to be exposed (sometimes in more ways than one!) to a sexual advance that you don’t want. But what I can’t understand is why these women (or men, in a few cases recently reported) have left it so long – sometimes for decades – before reporting these heinous events, which, according to media reports, have greatly affected their lives.

Ask Wednesday: A victim of sexual abuse on coming forward

In your own time

By Morris Dean

Todd Starnes is one of those people who are just fun to listen to talk, whether to someone else or to you. In fact, I think that each of the several times I've run into Todd at the local fitness center, he was talking to someone else, and seeming not to be concerned that another person had just joined his audience.

    When I joined his conversation a couple of weeks ago, he was in the hot tub telling a woman about having been sexually abused as a child of eight to twelve by a brother in his early twenties....