Sexual Harassment & Consensual Relationships
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A nice summary of the story is the main picture caption:
"Katie Jahnke, a government senior, had a 10-month relationship with one of her music professors in 1995. Though Jahnke said she thought the relationship was consensual, she suffered anxiety from it and eventually filed a sexual harassment complaint with the UT Office of Legal Affairs."
So after a 10 month consensual relationship she decides she needs to file a complaint against the guy?
At what point is someone to be told, "You screwed up, deal with it." instead of being allowed to file complaints against someone they consensually got naked with?
A nice summary of the story is the main picture caption:
"Katie Jahnke, a government senior, had a 10-month relationship with one of her music professors in 1995. Though Jahnke said she thought the relationship was consensual, she suffered anxiety from it and eventually filed a sexual harassment complaint with the UT Office of Legal Affairs."
So after a 10 month consensual relationship she decides she needs to file a complaint against the guy?
At what point is someone to be told, "You screwed up, deal with it." instead of being allowed to file complaints against someone they consensually got naked with?
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<strong><a href="http://www.dailytexanonline.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2002/04/01/3ca80f8b5bfd9"; target="_blank">Requisite Linkages</a>
A nice summary of the story is the main picture caption:
"Katie Jahnke, a government senior, had a 10-month relationship with one of her music professors in 1995. Though Jahnke said she thought the relationship was consensual, she suffered anxiety from it and eventually filed a sexual harassment complaint with the UT Office of Legal Affairs."
So after a 10 month consensual relationship she decides she needs to file a complaint against the guy?
At what point is someone to be told, "You screwed up, deal with it." instead of being allowed to file complaints against someone they consensually got naked with?</strong><hr></blockquote>
This is the negative side effect of a world where people wants to solve all their problems with the help of justice, people see thems are victims, where they are in trouble it's always the faults of others, and they sue them hoping for money (because they felt that money repair everything), they never think that they may have scewed up and be responsible of their trouble.
In France too, this phenomena become more and more popular.
<strong>... they never think that they may have scewed up and be responsible of their trouble.
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On the contrary, on some level I think people like that absolutely KNOW that they screwed up. It's human nature, though, to want to never be wrong or embarrassed. If they can sue their way out of it to make them look okay in the eyes of the law, then they don't feel like they'll suffer any embarrassment because it's not their fault. Really they're just trying to save face.
The handout recommends against complimenting female co-workers on their personal appearance, touching them in any way other than a handshake, etceteras.
It's quite ridiculous, and I realize that in the workplace there are people who are guilty of this... but it's getting to a point where it isn't even worth your while to even acknowledge the presence of a co-worker of the opposite sex. I'm just glad I'm not working for a corporation anymore...
He knows the rules against relationships between students and faculty. It doesn't matter if it was consensual on her part, he's not allowed to do it.
I can see it now: "You wanna have dinner sometime? How 'bout friday? Great! Sign here..."
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Why should student-faculty relationships be banned? Aren't we all adults by the time you get to college?
No Humans don't reach Age of Reckoning until they're 35 LOL.
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On the contrary, on some level I think people like that absolutely KNOW that they screwed up. It's human nature, though, to want to never be wrong or embarrassed. If they can sue their way out of it to make them look okay in the eyes of the law, then they don't feel like they'll suffer any embarrassment because it's not their fault. Really they're just trying to save face.</strong><hr></blockquote>
You are true, but recocnize your errors and don't blame the others for your own faults, make you great, sue others to save your face is not a smart attitude.
<strong>Adults?
No Humans don't reach Age of Reckoning until they're 35 LOL.</strong><hr></blockquote>
you are absolutely true
<strong>Actually, it's not against UT rules for a faculty member to date a student, it's just "discouraged" which can lead to anything from a reprimand to being fired.</strong><hr></blockquote>If you can be punished for doing it, that sounds to me like it's against the rules.<strong> [quote]Why should student-faculty relationships be banned? Aren't we all adults by the time you get to college?</strong><hr></blockquote>It's a professional ethical obligation, as I see it. Just like with a physician or a therapist - they shouldn't be messin' with their clients. The possibility of a sexual relationship throws the professional relationship out of whack.
It's stupid to do so, I think, but that's not my moral view to force on anyone else.
And why is it always the professor being the predator? That's bullshit, women use their bodies as weapons just as much as men use power. Not that professors are generally the "victim" (if there is such a thing as a "victim" in these situations), but it certainly seems spurious to me to think that we've got serial rapists preying on the pure and innocent.