Janet Street-Porter: The night a sexual predator propositioned me in front of my husband and why I never mentioned it for years because I partly blamed myself

Our thanks to Jeff for this. In 2012, the year before J4MB was launched, JS-P was presented with a Harpy award by the Anti-Feminism League. The next year we published a piece titled Janet Street-Porter: the most vile woman in Britain?

In her latest piece in the Mail JS-P writes this:

When does a sexual advance cross over into harassment? Can a proposition ever be OK if it is in the workplace? The answer is very simple – harassment happens when the person seeking gratification is in a more powerful position than their victim.

This begs the question, of course, by what we mean by ‘more powerful’. Women are strongly driven by hypergamy, and one of its clearest manifestations is a willingness to have sex with high-status men, in the hope of future influence, professional advancement, or a relationship. Women trade their sexual power in exchange for men’s power, in whatever form that appears. Then JS-P writes what I can only assume to be an outright lie:

At the start of my television career, I remember sitting at dinner with a top agent, my husband at the other end of the table, when the guy leant across and offered me a reduction in his commission and plenty of work if I would give him the occasional blow job.

Jeff asks, ‘Was the man blind?’

5 thoughts on “Janet Street-Porter: The night a sexual predator propositioned me in front of my husband and why I never mentioned it for years because I partly blamed myself

  1. Yeah, OK JSP, if you say so.

    Stinks of desperation, almost as if she’s missing out on the Hollywood gossip doing the rounds at the moment and needs her moment in the spotlight.

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  2. JSP pauses about halfway through her misandrist rant in order to comment:
    ‘Before we go much further, let’s be clear, this is not a man-hating witch-hunt.’
    Thereby demonstrating that JSP has zero insight into her character. Absolutely none.
    Of course, to observe such lack of insight in a feminist is a trivial matter, but nonetheless it surprises me every time. How is it possible that a woman of JSP’s age could apparently possess so little insight into her own character?
    A typical 12 year-old boy is nothing less than a wise sage of ancient wisdom in comparison with JSP’s lack of emotional insight.

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  3. This encounter was rude and unprofessional and I would never want to work with such a character; But really has to ask if this deserves bracketing with serious sexual assaults, raped and other sexual crimes. It strikes me more as simple misbehaviour which a few decades ago, people were simply left to handle privately, on the grounds they were competent adults. My mother, my sister and I have all had bits of ourselves grabbed without permission, but somehow we have continued to get by.

    Now, I could certainly post chapter and verse about unprofessional and unpleasant female behaviour I have experienced professionally and publicly; but somehow even in this frenzied climate I doubt it would gain traction. Doubtless because the women were structurally oppressed by the patriarchy, their behaviour wouldn’t count as harrassment because they were not members of the privileged male ruling circle, just my office superiors…

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  4. Can’t help but smile at the thought that JS-Ps disinclination to accept this alleged predator’s ‘proposition’ was a charitable act, even if unwitting: she saved him from what could not have been other than a very serious case of male genital mutilation – those teeth of hers are dangerous and with a mouth as uncontrollable as hers, serious injury was almost inevitable.

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