Insurance fraud.

I think she’s getting at the potential for “crying wolf”, if an accusation without a conviction is enough to get you out of a contract.

Even for trash (I’m not familiar with NY politics) if you get one piece of legislation per term like this, it won’t be long until NY catches up with the rest of the Western world.

They don’t inherently deserve to be paid less just by virtue of being women. Like I said, they deserve to be paid their worth, just the same as men. If the women’s final of Wimbledon pulls in more ad revenue/ticket sales as the men’s then they should be paid more. If it pulls in less, they should be paid less.

Agreed. I generally agree that your pay should reflect your worth. Women’s football in America is more profitable and more popular than Men’s football.

Not so much because breasts; men actually get fined for the same thing, because Sponsors. There are a lot of cameras on you when you score a goal and your pictures end up everywhere. Sponsors pay a lot of money to ensure their brand is in that picture.

Yeah, that’s the whole conundrum though, isn’t it? Do you take the moral high ground and say that “We shouldn’t need these facilities. These facilities are placing responsibility on the victimised party. The wider problem needs to be sorted” or do you take the practical shortcut that is admitting you can’t solve the…

Do we have any reason to think it’s linked to recent attacks by ‘brown-skinned men’? From TheLocal.de article linked in this piece:

But there’s no parallel apart from the fact that trains are involved. It’s not compulsory it’s an option. Likening it to the treatment of Jews/Homosexuals/Gypsies/Communists/Blacks under the Nazis is ridiculous to the point of outright offensive to Germans. The only factor that links the two are the fact that there…

People are outright comparing it to the holocaust...

Xenophobia.

“along with clothes and some Trojan condoms. The whole drug smuggler thing notwithstanding, at least she was practicing safe sex.”

He said/She said at the moment.

The Metropolitan Police (UK) recently dropped its official policy on sexual assault of “a victim should always be believed” due to the impact this has had on high profile cases where there were members of parliament who were maliciously targeted.

“too much Disc world”

I agree with your general point here, but it’s worth noting that Belgium is hardly a fascist state. The muslim population there isn’t oppressed, but still young people were radicalised there and went out and bombed both their own and neighbouring countries.

I never once even hinted that I might suggest that an insinuation could potentially be made that men experience anywhere near the same level of harassment as women.

If you disbelieve me, please ask any British guy friend you might have. Honestly, I am that convinced that if you ask any British guys you might know “Have you seen groups of girls/women catcalling/wolf whistling/propositioning or groping guys on nights out” they will answer in the affirmative.

My account, actually.

Would you say disbelieving victims is the best way to go about sexual harassment claims? That’s what you’ve done. All snarky comments aside, in this comments chain you’ve disbelieved perfectly reasonable claims of harassment and implied that any harassment that might possibly have occurred is just a lesson in humility…