[MR] Personal Responsibility & Sexual Harrassment (Re: Society Notice)

[Brian]

Starting off, I want to comment on this one thing:

 

Quote "who's seen the sexual harassment card played all too often and
abused"

 

This type of blanket statement is what makes it so hard in today's society
for true survivors of any form of interpersonal violence (sexual harassment,
sexual assault, domestic violence, etc) to feel safe in coming forward and
telling their story. In general, people who are victims of these types of
situations feel ashamed and embarrassed, and automatically feel like the
world will look down upon them. By making a statement that the sexual
harassment card is abused, you are telling innocent people that they will
automatically not be believed if they come forward with a complaint. As a
side note, the Penn State definition that was cited is only accurate for the
state of Pennsylvania. Laws very, sometimes drastically, depending on which
state you are in. 

 

On a separate note, as a 501C3 registered organization, the SCA would be
entitled to discounted background checks through almost all national
agencies, such as the Volunteer Select Program for the company Choice Point.
Therefore, the individual background checks would most likely run much much
less than 19.95 per person as stated earlier. It's possible that the checks
could be as cheap as $3-$4 dollars per person.

 

Lord Brian de Lorne