Due Process and Sexual Harassment of Professional Women

 It's a hot summer in so many ways, but what if we could learn and grow as a country from what is happening in New York state political circles?  What if... we could advance together, men and women in the workplace, by looking closely at what when wrong in New York?

The professional women -- were they trained in how to respond and report to sexual harassment in the office place?  What happened?  Why didn't they grab the offender's hand and say, "No!" and steer their bodies far enough away from him to protect their persons?  Weren't they taught this?

What happened when they went to their personally designated supervisor -- the person they had been instructed during the training to immediately report any incidents to, like work-comp accidents at the workplace, or sexually uncomfortable situations on the job?  Did that person fall short in confronting the alleged offender, and documenting fully the incident at the time?

What accommodations were made so that the person reporting the allegations was removed from the immediate workplace  with the alleged offender while the investigation was timely occurring?  The fact that multiple incidents were reported by singular women indicates... something went very wrong in enforcing the established office sexual protocol.

In working-class environments, the words might be cruder and the actions more forceful, but the women are trained to use their words and hands and bodies not to put up with sexual harassment.   Honestly.  Others will protect vulnerables -- if they can't protect themselves -- by speaking out and addressing the situation that does not directly involve them (at their own risk), and by helping people who cannot protect themselves find a place to work where they can.

In short, the professional feminists in New York will do the women of the country a favor if they call for an open and transparent investigation where the women are not coddled and the conclusions not fore'dained (*coinage).  Teach your women how to respond more effectively, not permitting the continued physical assaults on their bodies, as they allege.  Why did they think they had to accept that to advance their careers?

Let's grow, America.  Stop protecting our independent women with fore'dained narratives that do not flatter them, and let's improve our performances to make more equal workplaces.  This sets women back iif these actions honestly went on for so long, with no woman allegedly being assaulted capable of ending it.

ADDED:  New York ladies:  you don't want to get your first lady governor in there by default like this.  Earn your own damn way in.  Don't ride the backs of "women as victims, who could not protect themselves from suggestive words and gently provocative pettings... that it appears no one was clear if it was unwanted at the time, with the non-married boss....

Not like this.  Earrn your way in, for the first time, at least...  not as a default prize.

The women of America who have suffered worse don't want to take the step backwards and reward these quietly complicit white women who are only collectively finding the Big Girl complaining voices when it is politically convenient for them.   That doesn't deserve a governorship win for women. That sets all of us back.  Don't you see that where you're at?  Or like with Bill Clinton, are we again making a costly sacrifice for women as a whole because there is some kind of political prize for women in New York at the end of the tunnel of suffering?