I am writing in response to Gaby Hinsliff column (White men are apparently afraid to do the wrong thing at work. I have some advice, 26 May). I was attacked by someone’s sexual work twice my age – my boss. I have reported it to my company and the police. I chase legal justice. I speak openly about what happened. And I lost my job and I didn’t work.
It does not come from lack of testing. I want to work again. I’m an educated woman in my 30s – have a postgraduate degree, I work for Foreign Office and BBC, I speak Arabic and French. I’ve been working since I was 13. Even if I changed the countries and races in my 20s, I never had no job – so far.
I applied for hundreds of roles. I happen. No sticks. My stop is that if the future owners of Google me and find my name involved in a sexual violence story, the conclusion is fluent, or he is crushed. The famous irony is that I believe I’m less problematic or messed up than I’ve been silent I’m keeping quiet – these things are looking for you. Talking is not about turning myself and it’s not about rounding. I’m making a hard choice to protect my dignity. Women’s should be allowed to work without betraying themselves to get it.
I agree with Gaby that some of the anxiety is introduced by Tim Samuels is true, but it should be relief to those who are on the back of Youtube he shows, white man Don’t work!, That, time and time again, men called for bad behavior on the workplace trip. These are women who have the courage to call them suffering from suffering professional fallout.
If you publish this, please keep me unknown, because my dependent days it gives the power to talk for a long time ago.
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Easy to sneer about white men discriminated against work. But in the proper condition of myself on two occasions – once in a civil service department and once in charity. On the same occasion, discrimination, humbling and harmful, made by white women in power positions. I think I can only accept it, as Gaby Hindsliff has suggested, by acknowledging that others have suffered more (I have been forced to leave the job. The experience has a deep and lasting effect on my health.
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What I found against Gaby Hsliff’s piece was the treatment of white men as a kind of homogeneous group. It seems when the compilation of whitish and only manifests provide the opportunity. Some white men are real privilege and have the feeling of that privilege to reduce, as Ms Hinsliff has suggested. Some white men are less than privileged.
White men are more hurt by school failures, among the homeless people living in the streets, among the industrial accidents or alone, and with those alone in their lives.
Hinsliff wrote: “So if the white men don’t think the job is working for them, it’s good to work in the classroom, not just working with the education, don’t have to say to check their privilege.
Grame Booth
Canterbury
