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Dinner Engagement Paper

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This was the topic at a dinner engagement last evening, all women but of various ages and education level. The eldest of the attendees begins the discussion by stating how weary she’s become with all coverage of Harvey Weinstein’s behaviors. She expands on this by declaring the women should be held responsible for not putting a stop to his advances, by which she believes could be accomplished by simply telling him to stop and walking away. The room became completely silent, obviously, there were some upset women at that table – I was one of them. When no one challenged her and she felt she had the floor she told the story of a co-worker, some thirty years ago, who filed suit against the company controller citing sexual harassment for more

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