International Women's Day

[mousme]

I'm a little depressed that we still need this, but oh well.

Doubtless everyone on the internet has already seen this video, but I love it, and so I am reposting it.

Are We Equals, 007?

The other day some of my (white, male) coworkers complained about having to take the mandatory class on harassment in the workplace (it's roughly a one hour online course, with a 15-minute quiz at the end: a real hardship, you understand). One of them bitched that it wasn't necessary because it's not like it exists anymore, right? We live in a society where men don't harass women at all.

You should have seen the look on his face when I told him that I and several other women had been harassed at my previous job, that one girl had filed a complaint with the Régie des Normes du Travail, that the rest of us had testified, and that we had won.

Newsflash: just because you didn't see it yourself, doesn't mean it didn't happen.

Comments

[sassy-fae.livejournal.com]

"I'm a little depressed that we still need this"

Yeah, that was my thought on it as well :/

I hope the retelling of your experience shed some light on things for your coworker.

I had not seen that video! Very nice!

[pasley.livejournal.com]

Makes me depressed, as well, but I believe things are, slowly, getting better, at least on the work front . . . and provided that there is a good, strong union in place.

Love the video, and love that both actors participated in it, too. (I'm assuming that that is, indeed Dame Judy Dench's voice-over, and not a sound-alike.)

xox

[wererogue.livejournal.com]

It is :)

[luvenditti.livejournal.com]

It's especially effective as Bond is SO mysogenistic (sp?)!

[wererogue.livejournal.com]

I thought the same thing :) Great way to break in to a certain demographic.