2nd September 2013, 01:36 PM
BAJR Wrote:IN a way it is adding to the debate. by showing how things can get out of hand. However, it also shows that there must be a way for people to say - I don't like that... and not feel that they are being somehow in teh wrong.
Spot on I'd say hosty.
BAJR Wrote:<snip>... why people find it needful to make sexual comments about colleagues. that is one of the simplest ones to ( or should be ) to deal with. NO SEXUAL COMMENTS> but... then the nuances come in. like this last few posts.
The point is that we should be allowed to say where the line of propriety is.
I believe joking, ribbing etc is part of the system of social sanctions that has evolved through the ages as a way for a group/ society to a) arrive at what is the accepted set of rules within that group; b) propagate/ enforce those rules.
groups/ societies rely on an accepted set of 'rules' and their enforcement through sanctions (if I remember my social anthropology correctly), whether its the innuit, sans tribesmen or a bunch of diggers.
There is probably a reason why humans are so obsessed with sexual prowess/ attributes...........may be more biological than sociological.
As a tangent, how about someone with a mild mental illness that means they don't understand social norms?