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I do think people really need to start believing again that good things can happen - otherwise life is just one painful retreat after another.
Old Hobbit🐸
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Ageing hobbit, not eleventy one yet, refugee from that Other Place.
![Massachusetts in the early 1970s. citation needed! At Cornell University, instructor Lin Farley discovered that women in a discussion group repeatedly described being fired or quitting a job because they were harassed and intimidated by men. 141 She and colleagues used the term "sexual harassment" to describe the problem and generate interest in a "Speak Out" event in May
1975. She later described sexual harassment at length in
1975 testimony before the New York City Human Rights Commission. 15! [16. In the book In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution (1999), journalist Susan Brownmiller says the women at Cornell became public activists after being asked for help by Carmita Dickerson Wood, a 44-year-old single mother who was being harassed by a faculty member at Cornell's Department of Nuclear Physics.|'71 [181 [19]
These activists, Lin Farley, Susan Meyer, and Karen Sauvigne, went on to form Working Women United, which, along with the Alliance Against Sexual Coercion (founded in 1976 by Freada Klein, Lynn Wehrli, and Elizabeth Cohn-Stuntz), was among the pioneer organizations to bring sexual harassment to public attention in the late 1970s. 20! Farley also wrote a book](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:l5o3qjrmfztir54cpwlv2eme/bafkreihfit5vvodfl7h5gila6qcpex4w6rmh6gp6a2p77kpt47uvgcln7a)
