Monday, December 05, 2011

Occupy Rape Culture?

I thought that within the Occupy movement there would not be gender issues but apparently there have been problems in Montreal and in other places with sexual harassment or rape.

It's not particularly surprising considering that people in occupations are a microcosm of society at large, so the problems of society at large will be present in a smaller scale and we still have a lot of work to do. 

An article brought to my attention recently because I have a daughter in the Canadian forces, in the Navy.  This article is about the treatment of women in the RCMP, but I'm sure it's similar to the treatment of women in other police forces and fire brigades.  Women get harassed, if not blatantly physically it's the constant insensitive jokes.  My daughter after several weeks of being the only girl in her class was really longing for any female company even if it was to hear about things she could care less about like hair, makeup and nails :)

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