Redux: Consent, Part 3

Dear Sugars

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Boston, Wbur, Sugar, Cheryl Strayed, Society & Culture, Dear, Relationships, Advice, Steve Almond

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The #MeToo movement deluged the Dear Sugars inbox with letters about sexual harassment in the workplace. In the final episode in our series on sexual consent, the Sugars read some of these letters and discuss what happens when non-consensual sexual attention moves from the private to the public realm.

This episode was originally published on March 24th, 2018.

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0:00.0	Produced by the island at WBUR Boston.
0:14.0	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:18.0	The sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears.
0:22.0	I'm Steve Olman.
0:23.0	I'm Cheryl Strayed.
0:24.0	This is Dear Sugar's.
0:28.0	Oh dear song, won't you please?
0:35.0	Share some better sweet days with me.
0:43.0	I check my bedbugs every day.
0:50.0	Oh, and this sugar, you see in my way.
0:57.0	Hi Steve.
0:58.0	Hi Cheryl.
1:00.0	So it's part three of our series on consent.
1:03.0	We're working in the gray today, exploring workplace sexual harassment,
1:07.0	and specifically consent in the professional arena.
1:10.0	Have you ever been sexually harassed in the workplace?
1:13.0	No, I have not.
1:15.0	I have been the object of attention from somebody of a female colleague
1:20.0	that I did not want, and I was persistent, but my general experiences
1:24.0	that I've been privileged enough to live within a bubble where if I got unwanted attention,
1:29.0	I felt I could pretty gracefully exit with no consequences.
1:32.0	Right.
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