Kathleen Wynne on Jian Ghomeshi

LETTER TO TORONTO STAR, NOV. 4, 2014 Jian Ghomeshi's public firing and associated allegations against him are generating a lot of public interest, to the point that the Ontario Premier Ms. Wynne has made public statements about sexual harassment in the workplace. That is interesting. Mr.Ghomeshi's firing came about (so far as I can determine) because of allegations by women of assaults during sex, which he characterized as 'rough sex'. These surely did not involve women at his 'workplace'. Or did it? Since then however some of his co-workers have made allegations of workplace harassment, which gave Ms. Wynne the excuse to take the action she did. It is astonishing that allegations against one man have provoked what would appear to be a public inquiry into generalized workplace sexual harassment. Unspoken of course is that the inquiry is to focus on male harassment of females. This is so apparently obvious that it does not need to be said. Workplace harassment, including sexual, however, is not simply a male problem. Plenty of women also harass. Their mechanisms however are typically different from those of males. Women harass through passive-aggression, spreading rumours and innuendo (though men can also do this) or simply by fabricating allegations for a variety of reasons which may include 'jilting' or outright female paranoia. The anti-male feminist ideology our society has swallowed whole, treats men as guilty merely on accusation, and throws evidence of female misconduct under the rug. Will Ms. Wynne's inquiry also be looking into these problems which affect men? Or is the inquiry simply an excuse to create more 'feminazi' rules to hurt, injure or destroy men? There is nothing in law, or nature, which conclusively says, or can say, that predators, perpetrators or criminals are only from one gender. Guilt or innocence is a matter of evidence, not gender, ideology, or suspicion. There is plenty that is 'disturbing' about female perpetrators, which our society appears to pretend do not exist.