Krauerking1d ago

‘God, you’re hot’ Tennessee school board member says to student during board meeting

https://lemy.lol/post/63720893

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Show threadflandish
anyone else in that room who did not immediately stand up and drag this douche out by the ear is complicit.
Apr 7 at 2:01pmWeb
Show threadKrauerking1d ago
Didnt hear them laughing at it and the one older lady going “ohhh you” as if he does this all the time to children?
Cause they are accpeting of it. It comes from being bigger than the allegations.
Show threadUnderpantsWeevil1d ago

as if he does this all the time to children?

It wasn’t just “a child”, it was a fellow board member. Guy has zero respect for the office, the students, or women generally speaking.

Show threadKrauerking1d ago
Yeah, I am just using the word cause the article doesnt bother with it.
Show threadforrgott1d ago
I honestly don’t get how that makes it worse. Like, doing this to a board member is worse??? I don’t get this stance at all.
Show threadUnderpantsWeevil1d ago

Like, doing this to a board member is worse???

Doing this to some random student is gross.

Doing this to another board member is also gross. But it signifies a kind of structural disrespect that undermines the office as well as the individual. It’s symptomatic of a general institutional disgust for student involvement in school affairs.

Like Bush Jr doing the creepy shoulder rub on Angela Merkel or - in a more extreme example - UN staffers who were “approached, accosted and raped” by fellow officials and dignitaries. It isn’t merely a personal transgression. It undermines the entire function of the representative body.

UN sexual abuse claims 'must be investigated'

Some staff who tried to expose alleged abuse and wrongdoing say they were penalised or even sacked.

Show threadscarabic8h ago
People also laugh when they are uncomfortable and don’t know what else to do. Obviously we’d rather see objections than nervous tittering, but I wouldn’t always take laughter as active complicity / celebration.
Show threadKrauerking7h ago

I was being over the top with the complicity mostly out if anger at the situation. I understand that people respond poorly in stressful situations but we need to start getting better at it.

This was a time I think it mattered to speak up.

Show threadscarabic7h ago
Yeah I agree with all of that. Part of what was in my mind is that I would perceive a man laughing as very different than a woman laughing. I assume that all women live under potential sexual threat from men at all times, and laughing at an advance is a way to defuse it without getting confrontational. “Haha surely you jest” is actually a deflection, even if it isn’t a head on confrontation. I’m a man and I don’t fear direct confrontations, but I understand women don’t have the same privilege as I do in this regard.