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UploadVR Had a 'Kink Room,' Pressured Female Employees To 'Microdose,' Alleges Lawsuit (gizmodo.com)
The virtual-reality company UploadVR is being sued by the company's former Director of Digital and Social Media for rampant sexual harassment. According to Gizmodo, "the lawsuit alleges that the company's employees and founders created a hostile work environment in which sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and retaliation occurred on a regular basis." From the report: In the suit documents, the former Director of Digital and Social Media for UploadVR claims that the office environment was a "boy's club" that employees expressly referred to as a "boy's club." From the suit: "Specifically, the male employees of UploadVR, including Mason and Freeman, would discuss their sexual exploits in graphic detail at the workplace in front of Plaintiff and other female employees. For instance, UploadVR employee [name redacted]'s sex life was a frequent topic of conversation. The other male employees would talk about how he 'refuses to wear a condom' and 'has had sex with over 1000 people.'" The documents also claim that employees were engaged in Silicon Valley's hot new trend of "microdosing" and "using Marijuana in the office." When female employees didn't want to participate, they would be ostracized by the male employees and excluded from important meetings and lunches.
I'm sorry, but the subject can easily be rephrased as:
"People were talking about their sex lifes and smoking drugs. They laughed at some workers who did not participate, and some of them were women."
This would be much more neutral. But then again, I suspect that the conversavtist-feminist alliance is not interested in that, but only in presenting sex/drugs/anything-remotely-adventerous as evil. It will start with the workplace, but one day they will also try to prevent this kind of talk in close social circles. To some extent, we already see the beginnings of that.
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The reason why it's not suitable to talk about in a work environment is because it makes most people feel uncomfortable.
I don't agree with your premise. I think most people are OK with some level of discussion about sex. It's something almost everybody has done. It's something that everybody feels a certain level of insecurity about. And it's something that can foster a sense of rapport when discussed among peers.
If you make your discomfort with the topic clear, I will avoid it with you. But if you happen to walk by when me and a buddy are talking about this crazy thing he did in high school, don't expect us to censor ourselves immediately.
There are pastors who have entire sermon series about sex, including lines about how wives must be submissive to their husbands. I'm sure their secretaries are uncomfortable with these sermons, but they had to hear the rough drafts of each one. Should the pastors be sued for sexual harassment?