Originally Posted by
WutFace
Edit: Another point. How many incidents of sexual assault or workplace harassment need to occur in the industry, in your opinion, for "pervasive" to be an accurate term? 5? 50? 500? It's purely subjective. And it's not your place to make that judgement call. What is acceptable to you is not acceptable to others. And the fact that you're willing to accept a certain level of sexual assault as "within norms" is f&cking revolting.
Pervasive is the term. Look up what it means. There are no actual numbers involved in a definition.
To your next point, I’m not willing to accept that ANY amount of sexual assault is acceptable. How you are somehow able to infer that because I have not experienced it to be pervasive (again, look up the actual meaning of the word) in my 28 years in the airline business, I am somehow accepting of “certain level of sexual assault”?! It is frankly over the top insulting, especially from someone who knows nothing of me. How dare you?!
You know NOTHING about me, so you have ZERO authority to make moral judgment calls about me, especially based on your completely skewed, over-reaching assessment based on your ignorant notion of a word.
If there are 6 billion people on planet earth, and one murder happened - let’s say the first one ever committed - would you say it’s pervasive?
Based on your definition, probably yes.
The actual answer would be no.