From: utzoo!decvax!yale-com!brunix!jss Newsgroups: net.social Title: Re: Harassment? Article-I.D.: brunix.1304 Posted: Wed Jan 26 17:13:14 1983 Received: Sun Jan 30 09:21:25 1983 References: hou5a.215,brunix.1284 An anecdote on the subject, such as it is: a few years ago one of the men in our lab had a large Playmate picture (on a wooden base, yet), displayed in one of the offices. i do not offer any explanation as to WHY we found it disquieting, but the one other woman who worked there and I did (maybe we were intimidated because we didn't look anything like that). Whenever one of us worked in the same room with it, we turned it toward the wall. Whenever the boss worked in that room, he turned it face outward. (he wasn't the one who brought it in, by the way) after much discussion between ourselves, Karyl brought in a large nude, full- front photo from Playgirl, and we taped it to the back of the wooden base. we set it up and waited. the next day our boss came in as we were working there, talked for several minutes about whatever business was relevant. suddenly he noticed our pin-up. "That's filthy!" he said. We turned it around. "Why isn't SHE filthy?" Long silence. "That's different!" We stuck the pictures behind a filing cabinet after that. they are both still there, i suppose. or maybe not.