Offense Taken

There’s a good piece by Katie Roiphe on “sexual harassment” in today’s Times.

Money quote:

The creativity and resourcefulness of the definitions, the broadness and rigor of the rules and codes, have always betrayed their more Orwellian purpose…

Also:

Codes of sexual harassment imagine an entirely symmetrical universe, where people are never outrageous, rude, awkward, excessive or confused, where sexual interest is always absent or reciprocated, in other words a universe that does not entirely resemble our own.

Read the rest here.

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