Klarinet Archive - Posting 000013.txt from 1999/11

From: GrabnerWG@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl]Sexual harrassment; was: playing the Clarinet from behind
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 03:04:52 -0500

In a message dated 10/31/99 4:38:53 PM Central Standard Time,
kevinfay@-----.com writes:

<<
I know more than a few prosecutors, having been to school and worked with
them. I've yet to meet one that got their jollies by putting innocent
people in jail. Nevertheless, teachers are right to be paranoid about this,
because of the possibility that what they do may be misinterpreted by the
student -- or outright used as a falsehood -- to destroy their career.
>>
Sexual harrassment charges have become the Salem Witch trials of the late
20th century.

This does not say that sexual harrassment has not existed, or that it is
wrong, or that it must be stopped. It is just that, as in all things, the
pendulum has swung TOO far. I.E. the office women who tell the RAUNCHIEST
jokes, but let a male tell the same joke and the same women are off to H.R.
to report it.

As one who works in the corporate world, I have stopped ANY off color humor
in the office, and I shun all company social functions. Too bad, but there it
is.

Now let's talk about sexual harrassment in the professional musical
world....I knew a conductor who had a thing for nice legs....male or female.
Woe to him or her who attracted this attention. Inevitably it turned fatal
(professionally, that is).

What's my point....hmmmm...guess I have several here. One is that harrassment
does exist. Two; it needs to be rooted out. Three; in some cases the current
atmosphere has gone way too far, and has been used as a weapon by those whom
it was supposed to protect.

Walter Grabner
who is stepping down from his pulpit
ClarinetXpress
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Highland Park, IL 60035
847.433.3309
http://www.clarinetxpress.com

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