A question for the men.

[DemocracyMouse]

35. Universal Kindness Needed

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I don't recall grabbing any women's asses or forcing any kisses. It seems so clueless.

I have, however, had a female boss proposition me, twice, and after politely declining, she undermined me in the workplace. So I quit. She refused to face me whenever I ran into her (we shared the same social/professional circles). I should have sued her, but it's taken me several rounds of dehumanizing treatment in the workplace to realize that litigation is an option.

On another occasion, due to low pay, long commutes, and criminally indifferent male and female leadership at my company, I was forced to sleep in my office for two years. (Yes, this is the new America. Get ready to swamp the voting booths next November.) Towards the end of my suffering, the female boss sent assistants to spy on me, even though I had already informed them of my low pay, high local rents and impossible conmutes. She made it a point to dwell on details related to my body and clothes in her "report." I was then asked to turn in the keys to my office and thathat same boss, along with a female assistant, began poking into my computer. I caught them at it when I returned unannounced to pick up something. It was terrifying and it was all 100% harassment. Given the Recession, there were zero jobs to escape to.

On a third occasion I was professionally ganged up on by a dozen women who took the miscommunication of a single female with Aspergers syndrome and whipped it into a hallucinatory rumor large enough to push me out of my job – despite excellent formal evaluations.

Men and women are both human, both driven by animal instincts and drives and both capable of rumor mills, hostility, poor judgment and cruelty. It's clear that more men than women exploit their power, but no gender is pure. I can vouch for it.