How many people ACTUALLY believe this nonsense?

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[–]WildApples 11 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Those workplace trainings are developed with an eye toward avoiding legal liability for the employer. If an employee accuses the employer of discrimination, they want to be able tell the government that they forbid such behavior and told their employees that such actions were prohibited. That's why the materials are so inconsistent; the training is developed by human resources and legal professionals to check legal boxes, not by true believers trying to further the cause.

So the sinister subtext is--whether people believe it or not, whether it makes sense or not-- governments have adopted the view that not catering to gender preferences is discriminatory, and consequently the workplace is probably going to be a primary staging area for normalizing TRA logic. Let's hope there will be sensible courts to keep this from going too far. But, for those of us in the U.S., with Biden, Harris, and Pelosi, sensible judges might not be enough to save women's rights.

There was a study a few years ago that said these types of trainings for sexual harassment made employees more likely to engage in harassment, so who knows? It will probably end up peaking more people.

[–]fediverseshill 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

There was a study a few years ago that said these types of trainings for sexual harassment made employees more likely to engage in harassment, so who knows? It will probably end up peaking more people.

Was the result that these situations result in a "handbook" for harassment? or do these companies ADD more rules that normally would be ignored and no one can follow them reliably?

[–]WildApples 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It seems to be a mixture of reinforcement of gender stereotypes and bro code. From the NY Times:

Other research found that training that described people in a legal context, as harassers or victims, led those being trained to reject it as a waste of time because they didn’t think the labels applied to them, known as an “identity threat reaction,” said Shannon Rawski, a professor of business at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. Training was least effective with people who equated masculinity with power. “In other words, the men who were probably more likely to be harassers were the ones who were least likely to benefit,” said Eden King, a psychologist at Rice University.

And from Psychology Today:

Men who attended the training were more likely to say that sexual behavior at work was wrong, but they were less likely notice sexual harassment, less willing to report sexual harassment and more likely to blame the victim.