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Related: About this forumMissouri Lawmakers Respond To Sexual Harassment Of Interns By Suggesting Intern Dress Code
Missouri Lawmakers Respond To Sexual Harassment Of Interns By Suggesting Intern Dress Code<snip>
"We need a good, modest, conservative dress code for both the males and females," King wrote in an email, the Huffington Post reported on Tuesday. "Removing one more distraction will help everyone keep their focus on legislative matters."
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U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) said establishing an intern dress code would put responsibility for the harassment on the interns when it should be on the harasser.
In letters to the Missouri lawmakers, McCaskill (who once worked as an intern at the state legislature) wrote that the proposed solution "bitterly disappointed" her.
I refuse to stand by idly while any suggestion is made that victims of sexual harassment in the Missouri State Legislature is the responsibility of anyone other than the legislators themselves. It is the responsibility of you and your colleagues to uphold the law, protect the young people working in our states capital, and confront and change a culture that excuses sexual violence. This problem has nothing to do with how interns are dressed.
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Missouri Lawmakers Respond To Sexual Harassment Of Interns By Suggesting Intern Dress Code (Original Post)
Novara
Aug 2015
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They could just add blinkers/blinders to the legislators' dress code... nt
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Aug 2015
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Maybe they could also suggest that the legislators NOT HARASS THE INTERNS,
The Velveteen Ocelot
Aug 2015
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Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)1. They could just add blinkers/blinders to the legislators' dress code... nt
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,837 posts)2. Maybe they could also suggest that the legislators NOT HARASS THE INTERNS,
no matter how they are dressed.
What a bunch of asses.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)3. Yeah