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Links: Tips for powerful men on how not to end up like Dominique Strauss-Kahn
By David WarnerMay 23rd, 2011, 7:30 pmComments (5)
Obviously, keeping it in your pants is hard when you could pressure basically anyone who works for you into having sex with you. Just ask the hundreds of influential men that have been caught smushing employees. For the Dominique Strauss-Kahns and Arnold Schwarzeneggers of the world, here are eight tips on how to avoid being an asshole.
Speaking of things that are inherently difficult: being an impoverished, illegal immigrant is not easy. Acting like an illegal alien for the sake of art project is decidedly easier. Artist Tania Bruguera, since she missed the boat on the former (pun intended), will take a crack at the latter.
In other questionable art news: a Dutch company is trying to sell billboard space by posting ads of their own with the tagline "The sooner you advertise here, the better." The board features a fat guy wearing less clothing every day for as long as the space goes un-bought. I think they're going to get their bluff called.
An elderly man has been sent to jail for growing two pot plants for his cancer-ridden wife. Obviously, they wanted to prevent him from parlaying his shitty, backyard weed plants into a drug empire. Have to save lives, no matter how many seventy-year olds you imprison.
Commentarium (5 Comments)
See, this pisses me off. Fucking around on your wife is not the same as raping someone. It's a totally different thing, and the equation of the two is just insulting. Strauss-Kahn raped someone, Arnold fucked someone he shouldn't have. If you're going to compare the two men, don't do it on the basis of these incidents. A better comparison would be to the affair SK had with an economist in his employ years ago. She was married, he was married, he was the boss, and she just worked there, and yet, they slept together anyway. That would be a fair analogy.
Arnold was an idiot for knocking up the help, but he's not a rapist. Let's not equate him to one.
I was about to make the precise same point Jud made.
DSK is a RAPIST (allegedly), which is far more serious than being an arsehole, which is what Arnie is.
It's the blurring of the boundaries between sexual misdemeanors and out-and-out crimes that legitemizes the crimes in the minds of those men who think they should be able to get away with them.
Sexual harassment on the job (which sounds like what your dear Arnie did) is a crime.
The point is that what these men do is actually problematic and belongs on a continuum of violence against women. Do you think a woman in a subordinate position to either of these asses can actually meaningfully consent? That Arnold's power to get her fired or make her life hell didn't act as some sort of economic coercion? That being a maid (either in some rich ass' house or some expensive hotel) is not exposing oneself to the whims of men who are groomed by porn or whatever to look at you as prey?
These incidents are not completely different at all, they are actually more similar than either of the dudes above would like to admit.
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