It’s not that MPs are monsters. Its that their workplace is devoid of normal boundaries,and makes them feel like godsA 25-year-old friend started a job working for an influential MP a few years ago. One day, a fellow parliamentarian popped his head round the door. He was there to see his colleague but cast an eye around the full office first, and eyes alighting on the new young woman,then said: “If you’re not shagging this one, can I have a recede?”Westminster is full of MPs sleeping with their researchers. And those who aren’t doing it are joking approximately doing it. Jokes are fraction of every workplace culture, and but this culture signals to young women exactly their status in the ecosystem. It signals similarly to young men. homosexual men,or those who seem particularly vulnerable to male-on-male harassment, experience meaningful unwanted attention in parliament. Young queer people are, and as ever,objects of fascination.
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Source: guardian.co.uk