I work in the auto industry and we do have a definite deficit on qualified female employees in certain areas of expertise. The woman was acquired for the job in the name of equal opportunity (our department lacked qualified personnel and had to reach out to other departments), which I'm fine with, and was originally seen as our group's supervisor (she was the only one that had successfully finished her recognized masters) for a task that was planned to be performed across two shifts during the day but due to the workload and deadline it had to be expanded to 3 shifts as well as 4 people to 6 (the additional two were the next best qualified in our own department, not necessarily best qualified for the job) and it was the woman who demanded equal treatment and be allowed to also work nights.
My point on this subject isn't what is justly seen as violating another person physically and/or mentally but the false idea that it is fine to accept a certain behavior from some people because of a perceived disparity (regardless if it is correct or incorrect) while vilifying that exact same behavior from others and proclaiming it's a fight for equality. I'm just as upset with inequality today as I was 20-30 years ago because I want everyone to have to abide by the same rules regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation or religion, I don't simply want to turn the tables and say "tough luck, we've had to deal with it for thousands of years" and claim a victory or even a step in the right direction towards equality. It's not, it's a shift of acceptance of biased behavior that should be crushed regardless of who does it. By portraying Felicity's continual sexual innuendo as cute, quirky and innocent simply to not vilify what she's doing I find unacceptable, what she does is just as despicable as if it was done by Oliver, Ray (and yes I did not approve of Ray's stalker like depiction when he was introduced) or any other male on the show. To even jokingly accuse Oliver's behavior as more likely to be a form of harassment is wrong, we as viewers already know that Felicity doesn't have a problem with it from her own comments, while her sexual innuendo is assumed acceptable because Oliver doesn't say anything about it. Sure he's the boss but that doesn't mean he can read minds nor does it mean he's not susceptible to being sexually harassed.
Just so it doesn't look like I don't want to address the topic of actual victims getting blamed for what happened to them, it's nothing new because it's the easiest way to not accept responsibility for ones own actions which is a whole different tangent I could go off on as well.
My point on this subject isn't what is justly seen as violating another person physically and/or mentally but the false idea that it is fine to accept a certain behavior from some people because of a perceived disparity (regardless if it is correct or incorrect) while vilifying that exact same behavior from others and proclaiming it's a fight for equality. I'm just as upset with inequality today as I was 20-30 years ago because I want everyone to have to abide by the same rules regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation or religion, I don't simply want to turn the tables and say "tough luck, we've had to deal with it for thousands of years" and claim a victory or even a step in the right direction towards equality. It's not, it's a shift of acceptance of biased behavior that should be crushed regardless of who does it. By portraying Felicity's continual sexual innuendo as cute, quirky and innocent simply to not vilify what she's doing I find unacceptable, what she does is just as despicable as if it was done by Oliver, Ray (and yes I did not approve of Ray's stalker like depiction when he was introduced) or any other male on the show. To even jokingly accuse Oliver's behavior as more likely to be a form of harassment is wrong, we as viewers already know that Felicity doesn't have a problem with it from her own comments, while her sexual innuendo is assumed acceptable because Oliver doesn't say anything about it. Sure he's the boss but that doesn't mean he can read minds nor does it mean he's not susceptible to being sexually harassed.
Just so it doesn't look like I don't want to address the topic of actual victims getting blamed for what happened to them, it's nothing new because it's the easiest way to not accept responsibility for ones own actions which is a whole different tangent I could go off on as well.
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