Why is it *ONLY* women?

[Hortensis]

15. GOOD news for you, Archae. It ISN'T.

Anti-discrimination laws meant to protect women (and other "minorities" ), have been used from the very beginning by white males, angry at potentially losing their advantages, against them. And by non-white males against women. By claiming discrimination and sexual harrassment, of course.

During a low point of my work life, when the end of the cold war crashed the real estate market in California, I traded real estate appraising (when I was accepting assignments from Santa Barbara to the north, to the edge of San Diego county to the south and into San Bernardino County in the desert to keep busy) for...transcribing Internal Affairs depositions for one of the two largest police departments in the nation. A friend got me the job.

In any case, I got lots of stories out of what was also one of the dirtiest departments in the nation, though perhaps not more than typical for its size. But on point for you, I learned that any women who rose to a position coveted by men was at grave risk of being charged with sexual harassment, or violation of any other regulation or standard that could conceivably be turned on her. A harassment-by-boobs claim (while examining information on computer screens) was typical. Supposedly a woman who had risen to lieutenant was always hanging her boobs on the shoulder of an officer who worked under her, causing him great distress.

Although it's been a while now, I'm absolutely certain that has not really changed. All large institutions have HR rules and procedures that can be turned on those they're meant to protect, and undoubtedly are, not just government bureaucracies.