{"id":574,"date":"2004-10-20T16:54:55","date_gmt":"2004-10-20T21:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=574"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:24","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:24","slug":"you_shouldnt_gr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/20\/you_shouldnt_gr\/","title":{"rendered":"You shouldn&#8217;t grab ass in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently Indians don&#8217;t get sexual harassment training at IIT.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtontimes.com\/upi-breaking\/20041020-034513-1028r.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Times reports<\/a> on this growing public concern:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\nFor example, we have many Indians who say, &#8220;Can I make a move?&#8221; when they mean they would like to take leave of someone. But if that is uttered in the US, to a lady, it could be taken for a sexual request,&#8221; says Dholakia.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>That&#8217;s not funny.  When I use that line women usually just walk away from me.  I have always wondered why.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\nSavitha Nayak and Sunil Dholakia, who train employees of multinational corporations in soft skills such as dealing with conflict, negotiating and communicating, say they have added the basic dos and don&#8217;ts of interacting with the opposite sex to their curriculum.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Someone sign me up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently Indians don&#8217;t get sexual harassment training at IIT. The Washington Times reports on this growing public concern: For example, we have many Indians who say, &#8220;Can I make a move?&#8221; when they mean they would like to take leave &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/20\/you_shouldnt_gr\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}