I thought GMU with its Mercatus Center was a hotbed of libertarianism.
Your account reminds me of the sexual harassment policy adopted at the University of Nevada Las Vegas in 1998. Although the policy applied to both sexes, for practical purposes it was directed against men. The policy had a particularly troubling feature: Whether an act…
I thought GMU with its Mercatus Center was a hotbed of libertarianism.
Your account reminds me of the sexual harassment policy adopted at the University of Nevada Las Vegas in 1998. Although the policy applied to both sexes, for practical purposes it was directed against men. The policy had a particularly troubling feature: Whether an act counted as sexual harassment or not depended not on the nature of the act itself but upon how the woman in question reacted to it. The act counted as sexual harassment if and only if the woman didn't welcome it. Unless a man could read a woman's mind, he couldn't predict whether a given act would be sexual harassment or not. So he couldn't predict whether the act would be a punishable offense or not.
I thought GMU with its Mercatus Center was a hotbed of libertarianism.
Your account reminds me of the sexual harassment policy adopted at the University of Nevada Las Vegas in 1998. Although the policy applied to both sexes, for practical purposes it was directed against men. The policy had a particularly troubling feature: Whether an act counted as sexual harassment or not depended not on the nature of the act itself but upon how the woman in question reacted to it. The act counted as sexual harassment if and only if the woman didn't welcome it. Unless a man could read a woman's mind, he couldn't predict whether a given act would be sexual harassment or not. So he couldn't predict whether the act would be a punishable offense or not.