A friend on Twitter shared some flatulence de guerre:
Well all right then! We’ve got precedent.
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It’s everywhere.
A Mountie whose harassment complaints against the RCMP prompted legislation to modernize so-called bad apples within the force says her employer is moving to dismiss her.
Cpl. Catherine Galliford says she received a letter saying the RCMP is seeking to discharge her because she’s unable to do her job.
Galliford, who has filed a civil lawsuit against the RCMP alleging years of bullying and sexual abuse, has been on sick leave since 2006.
Let’s follow the details. The CBC reports in November 2011.
CBC News has learned that one of B.C.’s highest profile Mounties says she’s suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after years of sexual harassment. [Read more…]
It’s deadly, it comes from the sea, it smells of fish and diesel oil –
Out of nowhere, apropos de bottes, context-free, random, Dadaist.
Jokes about farting on submarines always welcome.
Trudeau did a series on sexual harassment in the military this past week. The one for August 22 is especially…cogent.
In fact, if you report rape, your career is almost certainly over. [Read more…]
Hey I’ve got a great idea for a sitcom. A guy rapes a girl of 14, see, and makes her pregnant, and she has the baby and her mother has to quit her job to take care of the baby. Good so far, right? Then – this is where it gets really funny – a judge decides to give jurisdiction to family court, so the girl is stuck with him for the next sixteen years! Hilarious or what?
The rape victim doesn’t think so.
“The plaintiff, a rape victim in a state criminal matter, became pregnant in 2009 at age 14 as a result of the crime and gave birth to her attacker’s child,” the lawsuit states. [Read more…]
Who else? Well there’s Anna Gunn, who plays the character Skyler White on Breaking Bad (which I’ve never seen, I should add in case I’m expected to be knowledgeable about the show). She gets hatred and threats, because…well because she plays this one tv character that people don’t like, because her character is a woman, married to a man, and even though the man does some bad things, well…
My character, to judge from the popularity of Web sites and Facebook pages devoted to hating her, has become a flash point for many people’s feelings about strong, nonsubmissive, ill-treated women. As the hatred of Skyler blurred into loathing for me as a person, I saw glimpses of an anger that, at first, simply bewildered me. [Read more…]
It was Merlyn’s 3d birthday yesterday. Dave Richards’s Merlyn. He has a birthday portrait.
Google says said happy 126th birthday to Erwin Schrödinger.
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