this movie is very dated
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JackSlaterIV — 13 years ago(October 13, 2012 07:47 AM)
i watched half this movie now, and obvious things aside this is dated. like when the company comes to douglas and says he is being accused of sexual harassment and he says that its the other way around. its pretty laughable that both guys are like ' omg i never heard of a woman sexually harassing a man' .
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jamesharding — 10 years ago(December 31, 2015 05:32 AM)
"Sexual harassment" itself was a relatively new concept. It was first described by Cornell University activists in about 1975, but it was about as widely known or accepted as "cisgendered" is now. It wasn't until 1991, when U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas was accused of sexual harassment by Anita Hill, that it got into mainstream consciousness.
So in 1994, it was literally JUST accepted that sexual harassment actually existed and was inappropriate when directed at women. (Remember that character riding the ferry who bemoaned "We used to have fun with the girls. Now she probably wants your job"). The idea that men could be sexually harassed to would be a whole new fight.
Hell, the laws of that time targeting domestic abuse, like the "Violence Against Women Act", were written to refer to women only because it was hard for the people framing those laws to imagine a man being the victim of domestic violence from a female perp.