Another piece for the ‘You couldn’t make this s*** up’ file. The start of the piece:
Maria Miller, the Conservative MP and former culture secretary, has revealed she has been sexually harassed “numerous times” and believes it happens regularly to women in the workplace.
Miller, who chairs the House of Commons women and equalities committee, spoke out as part of a campaign by 5 News called That’s Harassment, highlighting everyday sexual harassment.
Asked whether she had personally experienced it, Miller said: “Sexual harassment – of course, we all have.”
All women have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace. A recent study by feminist sociologists at Leighton Buzzard University concluded that most working women are raped at least three times before their morning coffee break.
Justice for Men & Boys 
Maria Miller? Perhaps they were manatee lovers.
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A good point, well made. MANatees must be arrested and held accountable (the obvious problem in capitals letters). It’s time to build prisons for males in the sea.
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When she says ‘sexually harassed numerous times’ she means someone once briefly glanced in her general direction.
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Precisely, as the definitions have grown so wide. No doubt on numerous occasions she has sat on the Tube and concluded that the cramped conditions are entirely to do with the man next to her “manspreading”, the beast.
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Her absurd statement reminds me of Jess Phillips’ equally absurd claim to have received a thousand rape threats. All such women do is to confirm to men that they cannot distinguish fantasy from reality.
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Those (completely anonymous and unattributable) rape threats seemed to arrive just when poor Jess needed the public’s sympathy most, didn’t they?
How convenient!
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‘All women have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace. A recent study by feminist sociologists at Leighton Buzzard University concluded that most working women are raped at least three times before their morning coffee break.‘
Brilliant Mike and nicely observed. I was tempted to laugh at it but was immediately silenced by the sobering realisation that such an insane claim can only be a matter of time. Many a true word spoken in jest, as my late mother was fond of saying.
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Sorry Maria, Captain Ahab doesn’t count.
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I met Miller once in about 2010 to discuss child support and the CSA. I think it was at that point that I realised Cameron’s Tories were somewhat to the left of Blair’s Labour Party. She struck me as deeply bigoted and with a mind entirely closed. She did have rather intense blue eyes, though.
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The thing is some sort of sexual harassment is always going to be around in a healthy society. Men and women will want to pair up and some men will like a woman who doesn’t like him back and probably he’ll end up sexually harassing her a bit. Same thing the other other way round. My sister was embarrassed to go to work a few months ago because she asked someone out who turned out to already have a girlfriend. So I bet she “sexually harassed” him at some point. The thing is that sometimes this “harassment” actually (say staring at or making a move on someone who you don’t know is interested) does lead to a relationship and that’s the positive side of it.
Of course this is all so trivial that it shouldn’t need saying. Then again because sexual harassment is a natural consequence of men and women wanting to form relationships together it will always be a sitting duck for feminists to complain about. Then they will implement quite nasty policies which will lead to events like getting a guy fired for asking a girl out twice after she said no the first time.
The other thing to mention is that most sexual harassment is easily resolved without politics getting involved. Say, for example, a girl is being bothered by a guy at her work staring at her who she doesn’t like. Then she can ask one of her friends to have a word with him or even tell him to stop herself. In most cases this will embarrass the guy enough to stop. Simple!
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I know a guy who is a fearsome 19st tattoo biker who was stalked by a woman. She left him notes telling him how much she loved him, scratched “I love you” into his car bonnet, called him constantly at work and followed around him on nights out.
He was terrified because he knew his superior physical strength meant nothing. In the event of any attack by her, he knew the police, the courts and society would just automatically take her side.
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I am reminded of Anne Widdecombe’s retort to a female MP left in tears by the jeering of the House;
“It’s not sexism dear. It’s just that you aren’t any good.”
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Let me ask male readers:
1. Have you ever had someone stare at you in a way that made you uncomfortable?
2. Have you ever been touched – on the arm, face, leg or elsewhere – without inviting it?
3. Have you ever been in a group where sexual inuendoes about men are made?
These three questions are similar to those I have seen in questionaires used to determine if someone (well, normally only women are ever asked such questions) has been sexually harassed, or even abused. A positive answer to any one of questions like this results in one more respondent being added to the number that have been sexually harassed.
So when I see statistics that 9 out of 10 women have been harassed, I am simply amazed that it is not 9,999 out of 10,000. AND THE STATISTIC WOULD BE JUST THE SAME FOR MEN. (Read must question 1 over again and you will realise that the same statistic applies to children, too.)
The problem I have is not disbelieving the statistics, now that I have looked into how they are assembled. The problem I have is that people – from media, schools and, worst of all, politicians – take heed of such crap.
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