Bloomberg op-ed: congress needs to

[Underseer]

[ent]hellip[/ent]stop protecting harassers
(Sorry for the truncated subject!)

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-11-01/congress-stop-protecting-sexual-harassers

Congress has a rich history of exempting itself from rules it imposes on everyone else. Insider trading? Doesn't apply. Whistleblower protections? Not in Congress! Workplace safety rights? Less is more. The Freedom of Information Act? Surely you jest.

The most egregious example of this "Do as we say, not as we do" approach may concern sexual harassment. This week, as the fallout from the Harvey Weinstein scandal continues, the House Administration Committee announced that it would review the body's embarrassingly backward harassment policies. It's about time.

Originally posted by Blastula in the Harvey Weinstein thread. I thought this deserves discussion in its own thread in the Politics forum. What is happening right now is pretty amazing. Society is fundamentally changing in what people are willing to accept in terms of sexual harassment and sexual assault. Rape culture is actually being diminished.

Powerful public figures are losing their jobs and their careers at an incredible rate right now, and that's a good thing. However, the current climate has drawn attention to the fact that Congress' rules about dealing with sexual harassment are[ent]hellip[/ent] archaic to say the least. Barbaric might be a better term.

I imagine a few Republicans and libertarians are going to object on the grounds of the usual woman-hating nonsense. Cue snowflake tears about how men are being "persecuted" by "feminazis" or whatever.