Scotland horrified by female employee bound with duct tape

[Demovictory9]

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She said her co-workers made fun of her for having a miscarriage, hurled sexist and racist language at her and others, and then, the final straw: They duct-taped her to a chair and gagged her. Now, per the New York Times, DeeAnn Fitzpatrick will get her day in court. The 49-year-old will next month seek a judgment against her former employer, a Scottish government fisheries agency, over what she says was a work environment rife with harassment, sexism, and bullying. What's causing the most shock waves: a picture of her (see it here) reportedly taken by two Marine Scotland co-workers in 2010 as a "warning." It shows her wrapped in duct tape and bound to a chair, with duct tape also covering her mouth. "I was taped to a chair by two of my colleagues and told, 'This is what happens when you speak out against the boys,'" she told a judge in 2017, the year she launched her case over the "threatening and misogynistic culture."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/24/world/europe/scotland-woman-bound-work.html


http://www.newser.com/story/259758/scottish-leader-horrified-at-photo-of-bound-female-worker.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=uol&utm_campaign=rss_top

[Tipperary]

1. Horrid. Who the hell took that picture?

That is not duct tape however, that is packing tape.

[Demovictory9]

6. harder to escape than duct tape. Duct tape can be easily be torn across the width. Not packing tape

[Tipperary]

8. Yes indeed. But it is not duct tape in that pic.

Still, hard to tear duct tape when your arms are immobilized.

[TheBlackAdder]

15. Yep. If you stick your tongue out of your mouth, if would just peel off.

[woodsprite]

2. Sounds like "the boys" need to be castrated to make them more docile

and get rid of that excess of testosterone they have.

Someone call Dr. Pol!

[Duppers]

17. "Testosterone"? Or pure ignorance?

Hairy men can have compassion and be understanding.

[IronLionZion]

3. WTF!

[smirkymonkey]

4. This is obscene!

Is the world getting more hostile toward women or am I imagining it? It certainly seems so.

I hope she sues their asses off!

[Demovictory9]

7. They'll say she was having fun, a willing participant

[smirkymonkey]

9. I despair for humanity.

It just seems like the assholes are winning.

[NCTraveler]

11. Opinion.

These things are humiliating with respect to going public. There is a liberating aspect but it can clearly be flat out humiliating.

We have seen a rash of strong women coming forward and naming their accuser. We are seeing women lead on the world stage. That is why I believe we are seeing more of this. Women are fighting to take back their voices, sometimes at a great personal cost.

[smirkymonkey]

13. Yes, true. It's just sad that things like this should have to happen at all.

We wouldn't have to fight so hard to be heard if some men weren't such beasts in the first place.

[CincyDem]

5. Who the f'ck does chit like this ? sheesh. n/t

[samir.g]

14. wypipo

[Tipperary]

18. Lol!

[cyclonefence]

10. This is a bizarre story

one that I'm having trouble getting my head around. She was mocked for having a miscarriage? I don't doubt that these terrible things happened, but I can't figure out the relationship of the harassment to her perceived misdeeds or weaknesses or race or gender. The complaint she made that apparently initiated this dreadful treatment, the complaint that earned her the wrath of "the boys," must have been a doozy. I hope there will be coverage of the trial that will fill in some of the blanks I'm experiencing.

[lpbk2713]

12. I can't imagine having to explain that photo to family members.

Especially if there are young children. Anyone involved earned themselves a termination IMO.

[PufPuf23]

16. Just today I was talking with the other "boys" about a woman that

needed duct taping.








Note this is sarcasm.