What makes me shake my head is that this was all a pretty foreseeable result of corporate culture. The News industry in general wants "sexy" or "attractive" people to man the desks because they long ago ceased to be actual journalists and sidetracked themselves into the entertainment industry. In that respect, Geraldo is correct. It is the culture of the business that enables these behaviors. Only changing the industry's culture will restore any semblance of rationality or respect.

I'll take your word on that...have a great weekend.

Workin my normal weekend shifts...I don't mind them so much.

I can't argue that. People are hard to read. We got
This far without harassing anyone .With no power but our will power.
We will be just fine.

Yes, once you know someone, but today...more and more people are hard to read and yes, I have strayed away from them. It's not often but to think one day, being your normal self, you unknowingly empathize with the Wrong person.

It is just one more thing one must be consciously aware of every moment...that's not what I'd call "Freedom".

I think being conscious allows you to decide when your actions will be understood or not and whom you will extend your empathy to.
The work place for the last thirty years in my expirience was to respect the coworkers and to act professionally to each other. You could kid around with some and others required a more formal interaction.

It used to blow my mind trying to understand preaching one thing while doing the opposite...but now, I get it,..it's simple, they just have no awareness of their own behavior, not to mention any control over it. It just never occurs to them because they are just Not Conscious.

But, look at where all this ends up. We will no longer be able to express, appreciation, sympathy or empathy with a simple hand on a women's shoulder or dare I just gently rub her upper back.; I've done that countless times even a pat on the back of guys...just the way I was brought up. Nothing sexual about it...it's just mutuality.

I realized just the other day that I might have to control that behavior and risk being thought of as insensitive.

It's a very sad day for the consciously human.

The danger of lumping unwanted attention with violent sexual attacks and predators may backfire.
As most of the leftist solutions for any problem do.
This guy Lauer is a pig of the worst sort. He was in a position of authority and daily lecturing our country down the path of Altruism. He was condescending to Bill O'Riley and Cory Feldman
and the next minute ambushing a young intern.

Seems he admitted it today...haven't heard the whole thing but seems he fooled Geraldo's too!

Still, we shouldn't need to establish what is and what isn't harassment...firing a guy for asking someone out to dinner? come on now.

The line to tow was established a long time ago...but...The left will always take things to extremes...after all, they Are the "Sky is Falling" idiots dating back to the voo doo tribesmen prior to civilization of any kind.

[Sarcasm]You must be okay with raping someone an intentionally infecting her with HIV then!![/Sarsasm] Just kidding. That's what people say to this.

I have no idea if it's true, but I heard Lauer had a button under his desk that would lock the doors. He used it to keep a woman from feeling and overpowered her, the story goes. It could be lies. Anyway, we should never lump this behavior in with inappropriate but non-criminal behavior. I agree you could look at someone the wrong way and if you were famous end up on the same list of people accused of "sexual misconduct" as someone accused of using a door-lock control to trap and someone and physically attack her.