Island Life: The resignation of Captain Worth
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and he made it perfectly clear to Garrett that what might well be acceptable on an oil rig is not the standard of behaviour in Parliament.
Surely this sort of behaviour shouldn't be acceptable *anywhere*? Full credit to Hide for doing the right thing, but I can't help feeling that that particular line implies female workers on oil rigs should expect to be harrassed, which...really, no. And it's not even that I think Hide meant to imply that; I just don't like the "x isn't acceptable here" emphasis when x is just unacceptable, period.
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Surely this sort of behaviour shouldn't be acceptable *anywhere*?
Lucy: Fair point, and I don't actually disagree with you. But I think it would also be fair comment to say most people have their heads around the idea that they live in a wide variety of social contexts where behaviour that would be acceptable in one (say, having a weekend brunch and bitch session with a group of close friends) is totally off key in another (a staff meeting at work). And, like it or not, there's still plenty of places in the world where casual macho crap is commonplace.
I think that's the point Hide was trying to make.
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I'd say it's who rather than where. Seems an unsubtle class insult to me - that you can expect men who sweat to behave like thugs, unlike the delightfully white o collar.
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I suppose Hide might be thinking nostalgically of his truck-driving days when the world were a simpler place.
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I think that's the point Hide was trying to make.
Oh, yeah, I can totally see where it came from, and it was probably a useful way of getting the message across to the target. I just wish we could move beyond that particular paradigm.
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