OPINION:
At last someone has acknowledged that the predator game works two ways (“When the prey becomes the predator,” Web, Nov. 30). I am proud of all the women who had guts to out their predators — whether the predator was Matt Lauer, John Conyers, Al Franken or someone none of us knows. It is ugly beyond words that these women were treated like sex toys and that they feared losing their jobs if they complained. Their workplaces were toxic.
While they may not be in the majority, there are women who seek that kind of liaison and swear by the “horizontal approach to business.” Seducing men to get ahead is nothing new. For one woman it may be for a promotion, raise or some other perk. For Monica Lewinsky, it was bragging to her California friends she was going to Washington to earn her “presidential knee pads.” These women are part of the problem. They create a debased environment for other women who aren’t interested in playing their game in order to get ahead.
KATHY HARGETT
Potomac
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