Sound familiar?
December 29th, 2009 by: JenniferIn China, a 28-yer-old woman has won the first sexual harassment lawsuit since the country passed the Chinese Women’s Rights Protection Law back in 2005.
The woman, surnamed Luo, suffered repeated groping from her new boss at the Japanese-owned company Moriroku (Guangzhou) Plastics Company Limited. She complained to the institution officials, even producing photographs of her boss in action at a party. All she requested was an apology and a promise that the company would work to prevent such incidents from happening again. Instead, the fired her.
Luo reported to the China Daily, “They fired me under the excuse of skipping duties without valid reasons….I still live in a terrible psychological shadow after sexual harassment. I have been turned down for several jobs since the case was brought to court.”
The court ordered her former boss to pay 3,000 yuan ($440) in compensation and demanded the company issue an apology letter three weeks ago.
But you know those Chinese and their human rights abuses against women….tsk, tsk. We are so more evolved in the U.S.–NOT!
This is much like every other story I heard since SHS came into being: institutions trying to get around discrimination law by firing the complainants using some lame or trumped up charge about her performance. Many of these are published at the stories area of SHS, there are certainly too many to list here. For me, the professor-stalkers’ particularly lame excuse for their most recent conduct–including phone tapping and repeated burglary–is that I’m ADD and “not focused.” (Earlier, when I would not pursue any of them sexually, in retaliation they spread the blatant lie that I was cheating in school.)
Moreover, the same blackballing is also going on in the U.S., with people often unable to find new jobs after they are fired in retaliation for harassment complaints. And you are really up-a-creek if you come from a small community. I know of one couple who both worked at the company where the wife was harassed. They were literally run out of town after the boss’s conduct came to light.
The U.S. is as violent, discriminatory, and sexist as any other country that we love to point our fingers and sniff at. Will the people of the United States ever grow up enough to have the strength and maturity to see the truth about themselves? Let’s hope so.
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This article on sexual harassment of Arab women is another example of similar patterns of discrimination that you can see still in the United States, despite how far along we think we are.
Arab women are underpaid compared to men, just as U.S. women are. Moreover, Arab women are often expected to submit to sexual attention and advances to succeed on the job, or keep their jobs, just like women in the U.S.
From the Arab News: Sexual harassment main hindrance for women job seekers
The SHSF (our support group) is dedicated to Judith Coflin, a postal employee who committed suicide in 1995 after chronic sexual harassment and abuse by her colleagues. No one has done a study to gage how extreme and long lasting the effects of sexual harassment can be. From our own survey, I know that suicidal thoughts are common, but have only known of this one suicide, until today.
The Times of India reported a few days ago another suicide. H B Mamata, a nurse, killed herself by ingesting “a large number of chloroquine tablets.” She did this to escape chronic harassment by Dr. Harish, the medical officer at Bilikere Primary Health Centre(PHC) were Mamata was employed. According to police, Harish made constant sexual overatures to Mamata, whose complaints were ignored by her employer. Even after she was transferred to another clinic, Dr. Harish continued his pursuit, even threatening her “with dire consequences if she failed to heed to him.” At no time were any discipline or punishments were ever doled out to Dr. Harish by the PHC. Source
Mamata took her own life on Thursday, January 8, 2010.
I can tell you right now that medical systems in the U.S. is just as negligent. When I was employed by hospitals, they were not even requiring doctors to attend sexual harassment workshops, viewing this as only necessary for the less educated employee. (So far, 10% of our survey respondents were sexually harassed by a doctor.) In most cases, all abuse of employees by doctors was ignored. Doctors are viewed as godly (even though I never met one that wasn’t deeply flawed) and you are expected to just take what they dish out, regardless.
In fact, we are so hesitant to hold doctors accountable for their abuses, that we keep blaming the healthcare crisis on insurance companies, and seem to ignore the fact that Healthcare is a profit-driven business, with doctors and hospitals being as greedy, and often as corrupt, as Wallstreet. How can you respect a man or woman who maxes out the insurance of a patient who is expected to die so that they can still make as much money as possible. It’s disgusting.
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Dr. Phil’s, your thirst for self-promotion has also now further damaged my relationship with my family, though I am sure that, like Carl Scott, you have not told the truth about anything to any of them. And like Carl Scott, you have already tried to use them to stimulate victim-blaming, which is a pretty classic response to abuse victims who stand up for themselves–they are told they are wanting attention, being stubborn, selfish, or are somehow pathological if they won’t comply with the abuser’s behavior or demands. All abusers do this kind of blaming, and I am sure you are well aware of this, but I think this incident was completely provoked by you, Dr. Phil. Did you tell her about the shock response which lasted over 24 hours? Did you tell her I had already confronted you about your using stalking as therapy the day before the Academy Awards, how I felt about it and why? Did you tell her how I had already said that you are not qualified or licensed to do therapy of any kind, and that I had been confronting you about your overall behavior for quite awhile? And if you didn’t, wouldn’t you call these “lies of omission?” (I think that is a term of yours.)
Dr. Phil, you really need to quit being such a predictable, narcissistic bully. You are like a broken record titled “Dr. Carl Scott.”
Dr. Phil, you have sent me into the shivers again, you sick man. Carl Scott turned my life into a living nightmare and you have taken over. Because of you, I can’t sleep most nights, the PTSD intrusions are uncontrollable, and I am so mentally exhausted that I spend most days sitting and staring out the window. That’s about all I can handle these days, you selfish, sadistic bastard. I can barely type this because I am shaking so hard. But all you care about is getting yourself injected into a national story. Well, if that happens, I don’t think your role is going to be anything close to what you envisioned. You planned on being the HERO, but to me, you are just the second Satan.
Another thing we don’t think that happens in Western countries: acid attacks on women. This is something else we tell ourselves only happens in places like India and Afghanistan.
This story is about Katie Piper, a former model in the U.K whose face was destroyed by an acid attack orchestrated by her former boyfriend and a friend of his. (This was on 20/20 last week)
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/KatiePiper/model-burned-acid-attack-rebuilds-life/story?id=9502972
Also, submitted to our own forum, an attempted acid attack on a stalking victim. He didn’t succeed, but the point is he tried. Another story from the United Kingdom
http://sexualharassmentsupport.org/speakupse/2009/07/07/acid-stalker/
Granted, these are not stories from the U.S. But I’ll bet the U.K. has the same denial about their moral superiority.