OK retired DUers - how did you handle sexual harassment back in the day

[LakeArenal]

22. Sometimes I get pushback:

I was in college in 1970. There were courses on speaking up, women’s rights, the ERA amendment “talks”.
I got tear gassed on my way home from a math class upon hearing police say the wanted to go home “let’s break this up.”

I got drunk at a frat party and fell asleep on my “date”. He got mad and sent his brothers in naked and spraying me with shaving cream....

I had a regular caller who asked if I wanted to nude model for him....

Since then I had a boss that I went to a convention that offered to get two rooms or one big one.

I had an employer take me to lunch at a Howard Johnson and proceeded to show me the penis pump he just had installed (?)

I had a boss come up and pinch me on my ass.

I had a boss once say, Woman hear differently than men, when he tried to deny he called me honey.

A lesbian boss once asked me if I was sure I know what good sex is.

At the frat house I just closed my eyes and did not react in any way to them. Then I went home.

The caller called until a man had to save me and my boyfriend told him that yes he would like to meet him. Otherwise I just hung up.

The penis pump I simply said that I thought he should ask his wife about what she thought. We continued to work
together. I told him later I did tell my husband.

The pincher I turned around and punched in the stomach. He said he was sorry. We continued to work together.

The lesbian and I laughed together when I asked her the same question? I became good friends with her.

The one or two room guy was shocked the next morning when I told him that I told my husband. He thought I gave off signals
Of course I didn’t. He and his wife held Catholic Marriage encounters. I could have really ruined him. I didn’t. We continued to work together. I even got him a job off at the next company I worked for.

The hearing differently guy I just rolled my eyes and said I never “heard” that.

So my point is, since the ‘70’s we’ve been told to speak up. So I have. So it still baffles me when other women don’t.

I’m not condemning them.

The whole patriarchal system is wrong.

I haven’t followed this Cuomo thing but I thought I read somewhere an accuser said something like... “I thought I should have said something right then but I didn’t.”

My dad once said, the thing about losing a job ( and I have ) is:
Three things can happen.
You can find a new job that’s just not as good as that job.
You can find a new job that’s as good as that job.
Or maybe you can find a better job than that job.
You have 2/3’s chance of finding as good as or better job than that job and that’s good odds.

Every job seems to have predators so I decide to work with the predators I know.