Recall that the scenario of workplace sexual harassment that we usually envision is roughly like this:
The greasy male boss begs the oil of his subordinates at work. The female subordinates are very disgusted but have no choice but to compromise.
However, in the play, the male boss is a popular and humorous male anchor, with extremely high social influence and status. At the same time, the female subordinates are not 100% disgusted with this practice (of course, she did not take the initiative to cater to it, but in a rather ignorant state). On the one hand, she was attracted by the charm of the male anchor, but at the same time she was judged by her own conscience. What she said about being treated differently by colleagues and deprived of self-confidence is actually the influence of her inner moral judgment on herself. This relationship made her put a lot of pressure on herself, which eventually led to her resignation. Therefore, the unequal strong and weak relationship that led to her resignation was also defined by her as office sexual harassment.
In the same situation, when we look at the black female producer, her experience is similar to the above, but the way she faces pressure is to stop the ambiguity by breaking the relationship. This did not affect her work, so she herself also stated during an external investigation that this was an ambiguous relationship and did not express sexual harassment to the investigator.
Through Mitch's conversation with another accused of sexual harassment, it can be seen that what happened to Mitch was not the traditional, subjectively forced sexual harassment. By blurring the boundaries of workplace sexual harassment, the play creates conflicts. It is also trying to explore where the boundaries are and to what extent people who make mistakes under this fuzzy boundaries should be blamed and punished.
So the attitudes of the two female anchors towards this matter are also subtly different. Although Alex quickly cut her seat after the incident, she, like other people in the office, witnessed the whole process of the two hooking up together , thinking that this was a romantic male anchor hooking up an inexperienced female employee, and the latter was attracted by the former. . The new female anchor focuses on the result . What she sees is a weak woman who is ambiguous with her male boss but has to lose her job in the end. This also makes people think about whether the results of the ambiguous office relationship under the asymmetric relationship and the disadvantaged should be completely attributed to the strong . And how should the previous strong people defend themselves when they are accused and when the entire public opinion tends to be weak .
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