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politics »  November 05, 2008  We’ve come a long way, maybe?  As
I was driving home last Friday, I was sexually harassed by men
in a roofing company vehicle who made a gesture depicting oral
sex when they passed me.  When I called the company to complain
that their employees were sexually harassing women on the
highway, I was informed that it would be “mentioned to the
guys.”  When I pressed further, the company representative hung
up on me.  This is no unique incident, only peculiar in that
these men did not consider the company information on their
windshield to be a deterrent.  They assumed that they could get
away with it because I would dismiss their threat as just
another part of my day.  How bittersweet to see women as
contenders for our country’s highest offices and still live with
the normalcy of sexual harassment in our everyday lives.  Will
we accept violence as normal life?  Jane M. Webb Kansas City
If that had happened to me, and the