Suffering Remorse...?
There we go again, one set of standards for men who cannot behave themselves and treat women with the respect they're due, and another for women who just happen to be the victims in these tawdry cases. We live in a supposedly enlightened time when it is general knowledge that plaguing women with unwanted sexual advances is not countenanced. It is unlawful, as well as socially obnoxious.
Perhaps traditionally men who thought of themselves as being entitled to harass women, because women would be flattered by the attention, not insulted by being verbally or physically assaulted, managed to get away with it. The 'boys will be boys' chuckle rescued a lot of situations. But that no longer pertains, women like to think.
Except that, sometimes, in some situations and in some venues, it seems to.
A Hudson, Quebec immigration consultant who seemed to feel it was all in good fun and his entitlement as an employer to make the women whom he employed in his office uncomfortable with his sexual advances, was given a free trip recently. The women who testified at trial about the many instances where Dennis Brazolot groped them and embarrassed and molested them, had had enough of their humiliations.
So they thought. His defence claimed that he had taken "responsibility for the regrettable events, which occurred concerning former employees". But the father of two hadn't impressed the women he harassed with regret for his violations. "If he'd done any soul searching, there would have been an apology", said one of the women.
"I don't think he feels any remorse. He's not capable of that", said another. But the presiding judge, Collette Perron, came to the conclusion that it made sense to dismiss his charges of sexual assault, granting him an unconditional discharge. He will have no criminal record, and because the charges were dismissed he is considered not to have been convicted.
His lawyer, another female, expressed her opinion that he had "already suffered enough". His victims felt convinced that they had.
Perhaps traditionally men who thought of themselves as being entitled to harass women, because women would be flattered by the attention, not insulted by being verbally or physically assaulted, managed to get away with it. The 'boys will be boys' chuckle rescued a lot of situations. But that no longer pertains, women like to think.
Except that, sometimes, in some situations and in some venues, it seems to.
A Hudson, Quebec immigration consultant who seemed to feel it was all in good fun and his entitlement as an employer to make the women whom he employed in his office uncomfortable with his sexual advances, was given a free trip recently. The women who testified at trial about the many instances where Dennis Brazolot groped them and embarrassed and molested them, had had enough of their humiliations.
So they thought. His defence claimed that he had taken "responsibility for the regrettable events, which occurred concerning former employees". But the father of two hadn't impressed the women he harassed with regret for his violations. "If he'd done any soul searching, there would have been an apology", said one of the women.
"I don't think he feels any remorse. He's not capable of that", said another. But the presiding judge, Collette Perron, came to the conclusion that it made sense to dismiss his charges of sexual assault, granting him an unconditional discharge. He will have no criminal record, and because the charges were dismissed he is considered not to have been convicted.
His lawyer, another female, expressed her opinion that he had "already suffered enough". His victims felt convinced that they had.
Labels: Canada, Companions, Sexism, Social-Cultural Deviations
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