Kissing 'Girlfriend's' Hand Gets 6-Year-Old Colorado Boy Suspension and 'Sexual Harassment Label

This is for the good grief file.

6 year-old Hunter Yelton is a cute young kid from Colorado who has a little girlfriend. As young lads are wont to do, he gave his little girlfriend an innocent kiss on her hand at school one day. It seems some fellow young 'uns tattled to the music teacher at a Cañon City school and Hunter landed a two day suspension for 'sexual harrassment'. That's right, sexual harassment!  The school planned on keeping that label on his school record- forever- but have since dropped the sexual harassment angle to 'misconduct', but still.  The little girl likes Hunter, so why would this qualify as sexual harassment? And a kiss on the hand?  Yes, he kissed her on the cheek on another occasion, but so what.

Hunter explains what happened:

"It was during class, yeah. We were doing reading group and I leaned over and kissed her on the hand. That's what happened."

Now the boy thinks he's done something wrong, and that a kiss on the hand is something terrible:

"They sent me to the office, fair and square. I did something wrong and I feel sorry."

Where are they, Saudi Arabia?

Hunter's mama, Jennifer Saunders, was furious that her son was labeled a sexual harasser, and that he's now questioning her about sex when those kinds of things should be far from his mind at that age.

"This is taking it to an extreme that doesn't need to be met with a 6-year-old. Now my son is asking questions -- 'what is sex, Mommy?' That should not ever be said, sex. Not in a sentence with a 6-year-old."

If he groped her in inappropriate places, or if she told him to stop and he didn't, sure, go ahead and punish the kid, but that wasn't the case.

What is happening to this country?!

According to this psychologist kissing is normal behaviour for kids that age, and that the suspension could have a negative impact on the child.

You can read more on Hunter, with video footage of the cutie here.

Jordanian Professor Fired Over Sexual Harassment Video

Sexual harassment is rampant in Middle Eastern culture. In Egypt women deal with it on a daily basis, in spite of the fact most women there now wear the Islamic veil. Perhaps much of that has to do with women being considered objects in those male-dominated, chauvinistic societies. Yes, it exists in the West but nowhere to the extent it does over there. In the U.S. it can occur in the workplace- I have worked on enough industrial films dealing with that subject to know it does happen- but you don't usually encounter harassment on the street.

So some female students at the University of Jordan Khleif al-Tawarneh, under the supervision of their Feminist Theory professor Rula Quawas produced a video dealing with the subject of sexual harassment on university campuses. The pretty innocuous video posted on Youtube, and the subsequent furor it created, led to the firing of Quawas, the much loved dean of  the School of Foreign Languages.

Critics accused the film makers of “promoting vice and stripping the society of its values.”

Not surprising that they would fry the messenger, since the males obviously don't consider their actions to be offensive.

President Ikhleif Tarawneh said she was fired because the video tarnished the reputation of the university, others believe it was "an act of vengeance."

Dismissal of the Feminist Theory’s professor angered activists, journalists, writers, and students. Several campaigns were launched to express solidarity with her and in which she was praised for making a film that raises awareness about sexual harassment. 

Tawarneh claims it had nothing to do with the video, but rather  an administrative prerogative. Others disagree:

But the Committee for Academic Freedoms at the University of Middle East Studies in Jordan rejected Tawarneh’s claims and said there were no documents proving Qawas’s negligence or weak performance, the decision could not have been administrative. The timing showed that the film was the reason for her dismissal, the committee added. 

The Cairo-based Arab Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) said Qawas’s dismissal constituted “a flagrant violation of freedom of expression and academic research,” and accused Tawarneh of persecuting her.

Rather than deal with what is evidently a chronic problem on his campus, Tawarneh fired the one person inspiring others to fight it. This will only encourage the bad boys to continue their harassment. Typical.

Will Herman Cain Quit? GInger White The Nail In Herman Cain's Coffin

Herman Cain had a nice run, but by tomorrow I predict there will be one less candidate in the GOP race for president.

I'm actually surprised he lasted this long, but he managed to hang in there after all those allegations of sexual harassment. Interestingly enough, some of his most fervent supporters were Tea-Party females, most of whom believed Cain's emphatic denials of any impropriety in spite of the fact that two of the women that claimed he had harassed them were paid off. Troubling as those allegations might be, the fact that politics can get very dirty and the statement from a private investigator who claimed that Cain was not lying, helped keep him in the ring for a little longer. TJ Ward says he has some software that is far better than a lie-detector test, and apparently used that on Cain's speech when he denied any sexual harassment with Sharon Bialek. It also helped that Sharon Bialek had a questionable past, with a history of filing harassment suits. And let's face it, what constitutes sexual harassment?  I think we've all been subjected to some form or another- a dirty joke, a comment about how hot we might look, but is that really a major pay-offable crime?  Reportable harassment is when your job is on the line, when your boss tells you you'll lose that job if you don't sleep with him/her. Only Cain, if he's honest with himself, knows what went on with those women.

But this latest issue regarding his alleged 13-year affair with Ginger White, and the fact that he admits he gave her cash and didn't tell his wife about it is his proverbial 'nail in the coffin'.

If all of this is true, and he does have a problem with inappropriate behaviour, he is either in denial and truly does not believe he does, which is possible, or he's a consummate liar. Either way, he doesn't belong in the White House. I feel bad for him, since he seemed like an interesting candidate, although I still haven't decided who I will endorse, but there's an arrogance in someone who thinks he can get away with something by lying about it. That happens alot with politicians, and they're either too arrogant or too stupid to think that the truth won't eventually come out.