Thursday, January 29, 2009

PC Indoctrination No Shows

So, the University of Iowa decides to hold a panel discussion on sexual harrassment and solicit input from the UI students.  Let’s review how this went.

A panel met Wednesday to discuss sexual harassment with students. But no students came.

Oops, that didn’t work real well.  So the panel members have to do something to salvage their panel discussion, so let’s review that.

So during the meeting among the panel, the central topic naturally became how to get young people to focus on the issue.

And the first step is to properly define sexual harassment, said Naif Sinada, a UI graduate student and panel member.

UI policy defines sexual harassment as: “Persistent, repetitive, or egregious conduct directed at a specific individual or group of individuals that a reasonable person would interpret, in the full context in which the conduct occurs, as harassment of a sexual nature.”

But as Holly Blosser-Yoder, another panel member, pointed out, “I didn’t know what egregious meant as an undergrad.”

Ah, the subject matter needs to be dumbed down, because the definition of sexual harrassment uses too many big words, like egregious.

As Wendy McElroy states in her post noting this, “delicious.”

Defining sexual harassment proves no easy task

Posted by John Venlet on 01/29 at 12:36 PM
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