{"id":2331,"date":"2012-05-09T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T14:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=2331"},"modified":"2015-07-15T12:05:54","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T16:05:54","slug":"no-mr-wallek-youre-kind-of-bizarre-rape-culture-at-work-in-a-stalking-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2012\/05\/09\/no-mr-wallek-youre-kind-of-bizarre-rape-culture-at-work-in-a-stalking-case\/","title":{"rendered":"No, Mr. Wallek, YOU&#8217;RE &#8220;kind of bizarre&#8221;: rape culture at work in a stalking case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Wallek, plumbing and heating inspector for the state&#39;s Public Safety Department, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burlingtonfreepress.com\/article\/20120509\/NEWS07\/120508025\/Vermont-state-employee-cited-stalking-case-?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE\">faces charges of stalking<\/a> a much younger woman also employed by the state. Wallek harassed the woman at work, at home and online, messaging her with E-mails and Facebook posts for about a year, even after being told to stop.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason, the Freeps interviewed Wallek, who stated, &quot;It&#39;s all kind of bizarre. I just don&#39;t believe it has gone this far.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Look, folks &#8212; it&#39;s an embodiment of rape culture! Only in a society in which women are presumed heterosexual and automatically available to all types of attention from men, only in a society in which women&#39;s consent means diddly squat because, so many times, they are presumed to have granted it merely by existing, only in such a society would a man think that his possible conviction for being a misogynist ass would be &quot;kind of bizarre&quot; because it&#39;s going against the unstated expectations of man-woman interaction in this society.<\/p>\n<p>Jeez, how &quot;bizarre&quot; is it that a woman wants to be treated with egalitarian respect and decency? It&#39;s mind-boggling. It&#39;s almost like&#8230;almost like&#8230;women are people too! Imagine that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Wallek, plumbing and heating inspector for the state&#39;s Public Safety Department, faces charges of stalking a much younger woman also employed by the state. Wallek harassed the woman at work, at home and online, messaging her with E-mails and Facebook posts for about a year, even after being told to stop. For some reason,&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2012\/05\/09\/no-mr-wallek-youre-kind-of-bizarre-rape-culture-at-work-in-a-stalking-case\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No, Mr. Wallek, YOU&#8217;RE &#8220;kind of bizarre&#8221;: rape culture at work in a stalking case<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-2331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-reproductive-rights-and-rape-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5351,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions\/5351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}