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Feb 8 2018 10:52pm
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/373024-multiple-former-employees-say-cato-institute-chief-sexually
somehow i'm not surprised, cato bosses found to be sexually harassing employees for years
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Cato Institute President Emeritus and co-founder Ed Crane has been accused by three former employees of sexual harassment and settled an additional lawsuit related to sexual harassment in 2012, Politico reported Thursday.

The women who worked for the libertarian think tank told Politico that Crane was guilty of a wide range of inappropriate behavior, including asking one to take off her bra, sending another an inappropriate email about breast augmentation and comparing a third woman to pornographic images on his computer.

In addition, a lawyer for one of the women said that Crane settled an additional lawsuit related to sexual harassment in 2012. Crane declined to comment on the settlement, and denied other claims made by the women.

The allegations stem back into the 1990s, when one former employee says Crane made "dozens" of inappropriate sexual comments to her that she reported to another senior official at the institute. Crane's behavior did not change, she says.

Crane left the organization in 2012, but as president emeritus received an annual salary of $400,000 for several years afterwards.

That employee was 25 at the time; Crane, now 73, was in his 50s. The same employee told Politico that Crane would often make inappropriate comments about women who visited the institute's Washington, D.C., offices to other employees.

“There’d be people who’d walk in and he’d say, ‘Doesn’t she have great legs?’” the former employee said.

One male former employe who worked at Cato starting in 1999 corroborated her account, recalling an incident that occurred when a female contractor visited the office.

“I can remember once we had a contractor come in to present this idea for an issues campaign. And literally the minute she left he turned to all the men in the room and went ‘Man, I’d love to have her sit on my face,’” the former employee said.

Peter Goettler, Cato's current president, also declined to comment on the allegations in a statement to Politico.


maybe they should've given these women the books the institute has spawned on the topic of how to deal with sexual harassment
https://www.cato.org/policy-report/marchapril-2000/cato-books-dealing-harassment
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While high-profile sexual harassment suits have captured headlines around the world, a new Cato Institute book argues that there are nonadver-sarial alternatives to reporting harassment to corporate or legal authorities.
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She challenges the assumption that women are passive victims who need government help. Instead, she recommends that women have realistic expectations when entering predominantly male environments and points out that women who have learned to communicate their feelings clearly have done well at combating sexual harassment.
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Feb 8 2018 11:40pm
High-achieving men tend to have insatiable sex drives. Probably due to elevated testosterone levels and high instances of psychopathy.

Don't think metoo makes this stuff go away.
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Feb 8 2018 11:45pm
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High-achieving men tend to have insatiable sex drives. Probably due to elevated testosterone levels and high instances of psychopathy.

Don't think metoo makes this stuff go away.


That relationship of testesterone and sex drive assuming it exists has absolutely nothing to do with sexual harassment. You can be a high achiever with unquenchable thirst and not be a shitbag of person.

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Feb 9 2018 12:30am
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That relationship of testesterone and sex drive assuming it exists has absolutely nothing to do with sexual harassment. You can be a high achiever with unquenchable thirst and not be a shitbag of person.


You missed the word “tendency”
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Feb 9 2018 12:38am
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That relationship of testesterone and sex drive assuming it exists has absolutely nothing to do with sexual harassment. You can be a high achiever with unquenchable thirst and not be a shitbag of person.



I said high sex drive mixed with high instances of psychopathy.


Psychopathy bridges the gap
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Feb 9 2018 03:22am
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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/373024-multiple-former-employees-say-cato-institute-chief-sexually
somehow i'm not surprised, cato bosses found to be sexually harassing employees for years


maybe they should've given these women the books the institute has spawned on the topic of how to deal with sexual harassment
https://www.cato.org/policy-report/marchapril-2000/cato-books-dealing-harassment


#metoo
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Feb 9 2018 06:15am
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I said high sex drive mixed with high instances of psychopathy.


Psychopathy bridges the gap


A lot of folks misuse that word a lot. You're talking ASPD and NPD right?

I've only encountered a few genuine. I started parking my car in different places at work after fighting with one that ended up with me "putting" him in a homeless shelter.

I still watch my back a lot because when you work in emergency psych you never know who will recognize you on the street. Nobody likes being pink slipped lol.

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Feb 9 2018 06:20am
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High-achieving men tend to have insatiable sex drives. Probably due to elevated testosterone levels and high instances of psychopathy.

Don't think metoo makes this stuff go away.



Lol source plz
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Feb 9 2018 06:20am
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A lot of folks misuse that word a lot. You're talking ASPD and NPD right?



Yes. There's some distinction between acquired sociopathy vs innate (born-with) psychopathy. But in clinical psychology, I think the two terms mean the same thing.


However, NPD is probably even more highly represented among those individuals.
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Yes. There's some distinction between acquired sociopathy vs innate (born-with) psychopathy. But in clinical psychology, I think the two terms mean the same thing.


However, NPD is probably even more highly represented among those individuals.


Psychopathy is associated with higher functioning. They are cool headed. Sociopaths are hot headed and you (well I) can see them coming a mile away. They tend to immediately ask me to start filing court continuance for them etc, putting their secondary gains right out there. "I'm at the hospital because i have court today. I'm suicidal now. I won't be tomorrow" lol. Alot of other axis 2 with sociopaths like developmental delays and autism spectrum. The sociopaths can be fun. One guy shows me his raps for Jesus and draws me skulls when he is on my ward :thumbsup:

NPD is awful. Can't fix that. Don't take their mask off...leave it alone.

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