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Sat 6 Nov, 2010 04:19 pm
At a recent New York city council meeting, testimony from representatives from Hollaback, an anti-street harassment group, led council members to consider creating "no-harassment" zones—where it would be illegal to cat-call women and girls— near city schools. This would be done mainly to protect underage girls from comments made by adult men. Council members said they'd look into the possibilities, but worry that legislation could violate First Ammendment rights. (The complication I see is that other areas might become harassment-isn't-as-big-a-deal-here zones by default.) As always, there seems to be some question over what constitutes harassment. Salon's Broadsheet wonders, "When does a friendly compliment or a 'hello' become harassment, and when does a mere annoyance turn into a violation worthy of punishment?"
Vague in my memory:
there was a federal case in illegal employment discrimination, by sexual harassment.
I think it was in one of the circuit courts of appeals. (I 'm not going to chase it down.)
There were 2 parties plaintiff, both of whom won judgment against their employer
with one of them successfully alleging that the offender smiled at her
and co-plaintiff successfully alleging that he did NOT smile at her.
I hope that my memory is in error,
because if it is not, then ineffable violence was done
to basic logic as well as to Constitutional freedom in America.
David
As usual, liberals don't give a flying crap about the Bill of Rights.
Thay r authoritarian collectivists.
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