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yup. its like the big ruckus is him pantomiming grabbing a sleeping female soldiers boobs at a distance using the visual illusion of the camera. I mean the guy was a comedian. This was a legitate joke thing and he was there to lift moral and entertain.
Making sexual jokes about a coworker without their consent is called sexual harassment. Especially if you photograph this joke so your coworker can be repeatedly humiliated as it's passed around.
There's another term called "having a stick up your ass" that's coming to my mind now for some reason.
Because it's what the bad guy in every sexual harassment training video says just before his female coworker reports him to HR?
No, because the woman in the Al Franken case was a fellow performer and comedian, and that's part of their world. Recasting it as general sexual harassment as if we're blind to all the circumstances is just torches and pitchforks. I agree with the other person here who believes Franken resigned because "Fuck this shit" and not because of being guilty of anything actually evil. And no, this opinion does not generalize to "every guy accused of sexual harassment" - see my first sentence and apply actual brain cells.