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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.
Did you even read the lawsuit? I think "condom wrappers and underwear on the floor of the office" is pretty unambiguous. Not everything is some cryptosemite conspiracy.
I left a place years ago because the guys were really creepy like that, and I'm a dude. At another place we had to ask the new parents to tone down the discussion of their children's potty training.
The company employees made sure it was a gender specific problem. They specifically referred to their office as a "boy's club". And then there is shit like this:
The founders and other employees are accused of speaking "sexually" about female employees right to their face, and one employee would, allegedly, talk about having "a boner" and going to the bathroom to "rub one out" in order to maintain focus. The suit clarifies that to mean "he was going to the restroom to masturbate."
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A section describing how women were expected to do "womanly tasks" describes an environment that was cartoonishly sexist. Female employees were expected to clean up after events and parties, while men were not. The defendants allegedly told the plaintiff that women should be âoemommiesâ and help the men with whatever they needed.
From the sound of it they are royally fucked, because there are emails about STD test results and looking for docile women on their far eastern business trips. The "kink room" just sounds gross, and clearly they didn't take any HR advice as it would be an obvious form of sexual harassment for any gender.
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Except that your phrasing doesn't have the same meaning at all.
"When female employees didn't want to participate, they would be ostracized by the male employees and excluded from important meetings and lunches" is not the same as "They laughed at some workers who did not participate, and some of them were women".
It's not even remotely close, check your logic.
You're so biased against anything that is gender related that you refuse to see when there is a problem. Maybe that will change when you'll get harassed for something many will refer to as non-existent.
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Yes, it is taking very small doses of various drugs like LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, MDA... (But not MDMA, which is not perceptible at microdose levels, according to Alexander Shulgin.) It's not that hard to keep the dose small, you just cut it up, same as a prescription pill.
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News flash: most men and most women are exactly like this.
No they don't. Not in the 20+ years of my technical career. Of course, I worked mostly for Fortune 500 companies. Professionals are expected to act as professional and keep their personal life out of the workplace.
Kids these days (75-100mcg??)...when I was a kid, a tab had 250 micrograms or we wanted our money back.
I'm told, in the 1960s a typical dose was 1000 micrograms.
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Well, I"m serious. How can a woman forcibly rape a man? If he's not wanting to, he ain't getting hard...and if he is hard, well, you can't rape the willing, you know?
Your questions are similar to asking "If she didn't want it, then why didn't she scream?" Someone doesn't have to be literally tied down and screaming for sex to be non consensual. Tonic immobility is a common involuntary response, for example. Being drunk or drugged is a common situation. An erection as an involuntary response to fear, stress, or anger is common. A blowjob, handjob, or grinding don't even require an erection. Feeling coerced, confused, and vaguely threatened by the situation and unsure of how to stop it or whether stopping it would be dangerous is extremely common. Imagine anyone feeling powerless in these various ways in a sexual situation, and you should be able to understand how it's definitely possible for a man to be raped by a woman. Also, remember that the specific situation you're discussing is about a 10 year old boy; would you have expected him to have whatever response you expect from a grown man?