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Anyway, at some point, Bezan and Romanado posed for a picture with an unidentified third person. As they did so, Bezan said, “This isn’t my idea of a threesome.”
...Perhaps Romanado’s face betrayed her sense of outrage, because by the next day, Bezan apparently realized he’d said something inappropriate and tried in vain to apologize. By May 10, Romanado had formally complained to Chief Human Resources Officer Pierre Parent. Bezan immediately offered to enter into mediation, an offer that was also refused.
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What a monster.
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Since she has refused to comment further — except to tell a reporter later Monday, her eyes brimming according to a Globe and Mail report, that “it’s been an incredibly difficult seven months” — how is anyone to know?
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What were we saying about harassment being obvious to anyone with a brain? If we ran this scenario past 100 women, how many do you think would say it was sexual harassment? Something that would traumatize a woman for seven months?
So do we define harassment as something 95 per cent of women would find distressing? 50 per cent? 5 per cent?
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Here, I must stop to point out that the CBC online story about it began as follows: “A Liberal MP has called out a Conservative MP for making ‘humiliating and unwanted’ sexual remarks she says caused her great stress in the workplace.”
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Of course they did. The CBC is the sober, objective, nuanced voice of reason in this country.
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Comes a time to ‘call out’ those who reflexively describe ordinary human behaviour (which is to say, imperfect behaviour) as abusive and those who reflexively report it as gospel.
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They damage the very cause they purport to be championing by expanding its definition to absurd breadth. I don't know why people do this sort of thing over and over again.
X is a really important issue. Therefore, I have to find X in as many places and in every degree, large or small, everywhere I look. That approach does not help the cause - it hurts it.
A cynic might say these people exploit social issues for their own status and gain. But I suppose its unfair to suggest that people attracted to power and fame may have such ugly motivations.