Read the book. It is, once again, a very different story.

Whatever it is, it's much less offensive than Beermotor's image of sexual harrassment in the workplace!

That is a much loved avatar. Its back by popular demand.

Doesn't mean it's not offensive!

That's what make's it fun.

Victims of sexual harrassment may not share your sense of 'fun'.

Hey, I was groped by a one-eyed albino monkey when I was younger. You don't see me complaining about white apes.
Anyways, this is far off-topic and belongs in the Off-Topic category. Or on another site.

otherworld wrote:

That's what make's it fun.

Victims of sexual harrassment may not share your sense of 'fun'.

Not to downplay how the picture might have offended you . . . but, to me, it never seemed about "sexual harassment".  I always pictured it as a guy and his girlfriend/wife and him groping her as a little "joke".  In turn she is "mock" offended and says something like "stop being a jerk".

Anyway . . . different perceptions and all that . . .

bombadil wrote:Few things, however, are as offensive as overused exclamation points and misplaced apostrophes.

 Oops! I see that now.  

mbassoc2003 wrote:

Deadlord39 wrote:Hey, I was groped by a one-eyed albino monkey when I was younger. You don't see me complaining about white apes.
Anyways, this is far off-topic and belongs in the Off-Topic category. Or on another site.

Talking of monkeys, there is a discussion going on in the media here about extending 'human rights' to monkeys on the grounds that they share 95% of our DNA. The arguement goes; they share 95% of our DNA therefore they should be entitled to 95% human rights.    Presumably we should also extend 80% human rights to bananas?

That's deceivingly disproportioniate, it should be based some sort of logarithm function of the non-human DNA %.  Logarithms are confusing for the masses, so if we want to deny rights, we can just mumble about logarithms ...  

On a more sombre note, I think we need to focus on giving those that share 100% of our DNA human rights, before we think of the monkeys.  I'm going to try to avoid a flame war by not providing a specific example, I'm sure we can all think of our own.  

Don't get me wrong, I love animals.  Most are more deserving of rights than a lot of humans I've met...

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...the rest are monsters, and should be kept in mazes.  Whew, back on topic.

Beyondthebreach wrote:Not to downplay how the picture might have offended you . . . but, to me, it never seemed about "sexual harassment".  I always pictured it as a guy and his girlfriend/wife and him groping her as a little "joke".  In turn she is "mock" offended and says something like "stop being a jerk".

Anyway . . . different perceptions and all that . . .

It actually came from an online Sexual Harassment Awareness training thingy I had to do for work once.  I just thought it was hilarious as a picture of "OK, here's what NOT to do..."  As if someone had actually asked the question once, hey, is it ok if I just grab a nice big hunk of her butt?