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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 02:33 PM
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Poll question: Men of DU! Ever been sexually harrassed?
And not enjoyed it? I mean this as a serious question.
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1a2b3c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 02:35 PM
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1. all the time
Not anyone running for office yet. But if they ever do and i remember them, im gonna keep it to myself.
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 02:36 PM
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2. Unless you can sue the shit out them!
In which case, "I'm still coming to terms with it!"
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dawgman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 02:39 PM
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3. I am married and work the door at a local club on Sat. nights
and there is a hideous woman who comes in and won't take no for an answer. She rubs her breasts on me and (shudder) tells me about the things she would do...yuck!
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 02:40 PM
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4. yuck!
See that's just creepy
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1a2b3c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 02:43 PM
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5. My god i feel your pain
Has she grabbed the package and whispered things into your ear that you wouldnt even want a supermodel to tell you?
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dawgman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 02:49 PM
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6. it's actually gotten tothe point that I have to be rude to her.
ANd She wouldn't be allowed back in the door if she touched my package. And the things are cool when my wife says them but this woman looks like this but heavier and with a big hair perm
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 02:54 PM
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7. Mom?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

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candy331 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 03:12 PM
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8. Grabbed my husbands package
A Woman on the job grabbed my husbands package.I worked on the same job as he for awhile and she was always lurking around but waited until I moved on to another job to commit her groping. Has the looks of Godzilla.He still feels embarrassed about it. She's since gone lesbian, good for her!
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Booberdawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 10:52 PM
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28. Whaaaa??
Groping men and then switching teams?? That is strange?? :freak:
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1a2b3c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-03 02:02 PM
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38. You got me beat
Ive been harrassed by some ugly ones...but that chick, she takes the cake.
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Susang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 03:22 PM
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9. My husband was
He used to bartend and this woman who was a regular tried to stick her tongue down his throat one night. He was so freaked out, he called me at home to ask me what I thought he should do. Nothing like that had ever happened to him before and he had no clue on how to handle it. I told him to cut her off and ask her to leave. Then, if she wouldn't leave, have her kicked out. It worked! :-)
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yellowdog Donating Member (737 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 03:27 PM
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10. Actually, yes.
I was 29 years old, recently seperated from my first wife, and a 43 year old woman that I worked with thought I might be the answer to any sexual problems she might have. I ended up having to threaten to have a talk with her husband to get her off my back.
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oneighty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 03:30 PM
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11. Off your back?
She was on the wrong side.

180
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Mr. Brown of MD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 03:34 PM
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12. Sorta
There've been a couple of times where I've been walking along in a crowd and somebody that I was not with grabbed my ass and slipped away before I could see who it was.

I don't know if that counts or what.

-CollegeDude
Freaked at the time
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Booberdawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 10:53 PM
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29. That's a grope. It counts
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StaggerLee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 04:08 PM
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13. Yep. About 3 years ago
A lady I worked for touched my lower back (felt like she was trying to slide it lower). I immediately told her "STOP!" I wasn't surprised that it happened because she used to give me looks all the time and commented on my "beautifu brown eyes".

Anyway- It creeped me out heavily. I was single at the time and felt no attraction to her whatsover.

I get the willies just thinking about it. Brrrrrrrrrw
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 04:30 PM
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14. Yes, you'll love where and when
I was 15 at the time, but I think this still counts.

During church confirmation, these three girls would wink and make cutsie faces and comments. One day one of them lunged and grabbed my goulies in the church foyer.

That's all I care to think about that time. And if it was "God's House", where the fuck was God? Sitting back with popcorn giggling at my expense?! Probably, if God created us in His image and we create things to entertain ourselves with...

Oh, as an added bonus, my phy ed teacher always fondled me when he got the chance too. x(

Damn right I'm bitter.
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 04:52 PM
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15. jesus
did you ever report that?
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Booberdawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 11:00 PM
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31. Yes, it counts. But it's not sexual harassment
Both situations you described were sexual assaults.

I can understand the anger - it is clearly justified.
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Blue_Chill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 04:56 PM
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16. Yes, and it was awesome!
:D
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Loyal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 05:09 PM
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17. I'm sexually harassed
almost every day at school, by both genders. :shrug:
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Booberdawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 11:02 PM
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33. Why were both males AND females targeting you?
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 05:24 PM
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18. yes...by females and males...
but, then again, I have been known to put off a somewhat sleazy "anything goes" kind of vibe. I'm not really anything like that (well, not much)
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Loyal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 05:26 PM
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19. haha
:)
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ForrestGump Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 05:35 PM
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20. Yes. I may have been the Boy Who Cried Nurse here, but I actually
have been sexually harrassed. By a nurse. An RN. And no, dammit, I wasn't a student at the proverbial Large Midwest University.

She was blonde, tall (can't remember...maybe 5'10" or even 5'11"?), very strong - mostly pretty solid with a large frame and absolutely massive breasts...I'm serious. Rarely have I ever seen a pectoral discontinuity as mountainous as this woman's. She was probably stronger than me, and I'm a tall, large-framed male. I think she perhaps had some 'issues' of some kind...she was a litle bit strange, at least to my eyes.

I first heard about what she wanted to do to me from a coworker of mine. He thought it was pretty cool, of course. Eventually I heard it from her. The hottest it got was when she locked us into a room and began to explain, in detail, what she wanted to do with my body - this seemed to involve a lot of heavy lifting and a fair bit of bouncing (especially on her part...or parts) and a variety of different ways to, I imagined, try her best to suffocate me.

I listened with avid interest...oh, forget that, I listened in abject fear, still with a fair dose of non-fear that I have to admit made me feel rather warmish, and amazed myself by cutting her off and telling her that I was extremely flattered but that I was married. She got a tad peeved, to put it mildly. I guess I scorned her and she hathed no fury like...well, however it goes. As soon as I could walk without people pointing at my fly area and snickering, I left her there. From then on I became really good at avoiding her. After a while she ignored me, but at least she didn't go beyond that - get Glenn Close on me or cause trouble at work.

I can't say, on balance, that it made me feel bad, though. I was put on the spot, and made to feel very embarrassed and rather fearful - she could easily, I think, have had a good shot at throwing me on a bed and applying the famed Breastlock of Doom - but it also made me feel somewhat desirable, in a sense that that was something I'd been wondering about. And it gave me a wicked nurse fantasy! As my personal life wound down into oblivion I sometimes found myself wondering what it would have been like if I'd just succumbed. But I couldn't - I'm a good boy, no matter what you hear (including from me...especially from me). :-)

It was harrassment, strictly speaking, but my feeling of being harrassed passed and she did nothing to worsen the situation once I told her where I stood. She was scary, and I was so relieved that she did nothing to harm me, my job, or my marriage.



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Loyal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 05:43 PM
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21. lmao!
n/t
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ForrestGump Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 08:12 PM
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22. Sure, easy for YOU to say!
You didn't have the female equivalent to Arnold Schwarzenegger chasing you around with her Weapons of Milk Production, tryin to get into your lederhosen!


Oh. I'm becoming strangely...aroused. Stand back!
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Loyal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 10:54 PM
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30. LOL
:P
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HawkerHurricane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 08:41 PM
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23. Yes. Sort of.
I was a very Non-Sexual person until I hit 16. At 14, in the school cafeteria line, two young ladies intentionally rubbed thier buttocks on my equipment, then giggled at my 'reaction'. It was very disconcerting.

If they had done it when I was 16, they might have gotten groped back...
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kodi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 09:07 PM
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24. yes.
contrary to what is known of women's personal feelings on this subject, why would one think that men would have "enjoyed it?"

that is quite a prejudiced sexual attitude towards men.
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Dehumanizer Donating Member (174 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 09:32 PM
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25. I wish!
Man, if I found out that some semi-attractive girl even THOUGHT about anything sexual with me, it would be the greatest moment ever. I'd totally think about it every time I started to..yeah..well..nevermind.
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BiggJawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 10:41 PM
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26. No, not even the repulsive toad-women seem to want me...
I must set off their Gaydar or something.

Sad thing is, I'm at that point in my life where I'd be a very easy "score".....

god, a 5' 11" hard-body nurse with massive hooties...I'd think I'd died and went to heaven...
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FDRrocks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 10:44 PM
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27. No
Edited on Sat Oct-04-03 10:45 PM by FDRrocks
:( :( :(

It would be impossible to sexual harass me. My mind is one track.
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RushIsRot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 11:00 PM
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32. I wasn't a man at the time, but
I WAS sexually molested by another male years ago. I read about his passing in the newspaper a few years back and didn't shed a single tear.
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On the Road Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 11:14 PM
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34. I Get Harrassed All the Time by the Cleaning Lady
a petite 40ish woman from El Salvador who can barely speak English. She always stops to chat and looks for opportunities to give me a shoulder massage. She tried to go further once by putting her arm around me, but I didn't go for it and she withdrew.

I actually don't mind. She's very lively and one of the only people I actually see and talk to at work, due to telecommuting and remote reporting. She's told me some amazing stories about her life as best she can communicate. Deciding to have a fling with her, however, would be a HUGE mistake.

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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-04-03 11:47 PM
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35. Groped and everything!
Edited on Sat Oct-04-03 11:48 PM by Hubert Flottz
I knew to fight back was useless too!

Is Herass one word or two?
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Xithras Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-03 02:42 AM
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36. Yep, by a former boss
I was 24, attractive, newly married, and had a mid 40's-ish boss who decided that she wanted to have an affair with a younger man. She did the whole 9-yards...groping, sxually explicit come-on's, the whole deal. She didn't care that I was married, that my wife was already pregnant, or that I'd said no a dozen times, she just kept coming onto me with promises of promotions and perks if I'd "just make her happy".

It finally stopped when she grabbed my a** one day in her office. I told her, point blank, that if she did it again I'd call the CEO and her husband. The following week she buried me with six projects with unrealistic timeframes (each of them should have taken a week, she gave me ten days to finish them all) and when I couldn't complete them, she summarily fired me for not performing my job to company expectations. I tried to take it to the CEO, but she wouldn't listen either. A former co-worker later told me that my former boss had floated harrasment stories against ME to the CEO, and claimed that the "performance termination" was simply a cover to get me out of the office quickly. The CEO bought it.

Ah well, at least I saved the explicit emails she sent me. I've always wondered what her husband thought after copies of them showed up in his mailbox ;-)
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noiretextatique Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-05-03 02:54 AM
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37. get mad...and get even!
:thumbsup: did you send copies to the CEO as well? harrassment AND retaliation? they're lucky you didn't sue.
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