Dr. bird 🌻 | Inspiring ChangeOne time the 2016 state representative candidate that I managed the campaign of (she went on to win) abusively told me: “I don’t care if you have to lick their (the married couple who managed Visclosky staff’s) toes, get us into that office (she refused to pay $100 for keys to).
I talk more about her here in this peer reviewed (open access) academic article I published a few years back called “Requirement Politics”: https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/ari/index.php/ari/article/view/29637/22092
In that article, I also disclosed the fact I was both sexually harassed by a Munster, IN democrat precinct member told my boss and she told me to brush it off AND then a year later I was solicited for sex by one of my prior union volunteers. I’ve shared the screenshots for years and few people cared.
Bill Sharpe Gadfly@bbiiirdbPhD
Sorry Dr bird. So many shitty things happen in our lives... :(
In the mid 1970s, my boss tried to molest me on a so called fishing trip. The guy was a OLY Wa state Dept head too. I was a summer flunky. Before that, I had 3 yrs in a Catholic boarding school. :(
Yes, people have their motives & I wonder why I have little faith in gov & religion.
Sorry Dr bird. So many shitty things happen in our lives... :(
In the mid 1970s, my boss tried to molest me on a so called fishing trip. The guy was a OLY Wa state Dept head too. I was a summer flunky. Before that, I had 3 yrs in a Catholic boarding school. :(
Yes, people have their motives & I wonder why I have little faith in gov & religion.
@OhMrBill I’m really sorry this happened to you. You deserve/d so much better too.
Fishercat@bbiiirdbPhD I'm sorry.. I don't have the brain space ATM to read that.
Genuine question, not pushback: Did you keep working for her, and if so, why?
@Fishercat I did until they fired me for not wearing a bra a month or so later. I am a lifelong abuse survivor. That kind of language was normal for me. I didn’t know my rights or how to report that kind of thing. I needed money to live during my masters, and they paid me more than I’d ever made.
@bbiiirdbPhD Ah. Understood. Thank you for explaining.
"I'm sorry you went through that," is completely inadequate, but true.
@Fishercat 🌻🐦⬛🌞❤️🩹💙😷💛❤️🔥