2008-01-29

The Tits Pervert and other offenders

Re the survey on sexual harassment in the Parliament, Helsingin Sanomat did some investigative reporting and called many men and women working in the Parliament. The resulting article is interesting, but quite provocative (clearly on purpose).

At the end, the article has comments from a bunch of MPs whose names came up during the calls. I'd like to have a strong notion that these men are guilty of something before I printed their names in a newspaper and I'm not sure a person's name coming up during a round of phone calls qualifies.

On the other hand, Centre Party MP Pekka Vilkuna doesn't do himself any favors by opining that he has been accused of improper behavior "because it is fashionable these days to say that" and advising women to laugh along at the jokes. Obviously it's not "fashionable" to name Vilkuna, in particular.

PS: The article focuses on MPs and states that "as a rule the party doing the harassing is an MP", but according to the survey in almost half of the cases the harasser wasn't an MP. So it's not much of a rule.

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