Stephen Tyler Bieneman has pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor assault over the incident last November at McMurdo Station.
A man accused of physically assaulting a woman at a U.S. research station in Antarctica was then sent to a remote icefield where he was tasked with protecting the safety of a professor and three young graduate students, and he remained there for a full week after a warrant for his arrest was issued, documents obtained by The Associated Press show.
Stephen Tyler Bieneman has pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor assault over the incident last November at McMurdo Station, which his lawyer said was nothing more than “horseplay.” The case is due to go to trial Monday in Honolulu.
And after that story broke the National Science Foundation’s response was to stop selling liquor at McMurdo Station. 🙄
https://www.al.com/news/2023/09/us-workers-in-antarctica-can-no-longer-buy-alcohol-at-bases-2-bars-after-sexual-misconduct-claims.html
Sometimes I wonder how the church got away with just shuffling abusers from place to place with no punishment and then the scientific community comes along to prove it is just a human social problem at the core and some organizations just make it easier than others.
It’s what happens when people aren’t easily replaceable. Some of them start to abuse their power.
Saying it’s a human social problem is a bit of a misnomer tho, as throughout written history half of the humans (women) have not been in power, have not made the rules and have not been the enforcers of the rules.
This is a man problem, not a human problem.
I’ll let the multiple women who’ve abused me know it’s a man problem and they’re good to go.
Didn’t you just lay out why it is a social problem, though? Men are disproportionately abusing folks because they’re disproportionately in power.
Clearly testosterone plays a major role in causing aggressive behavior, and men tend to have more testosterone, but that also isn’t a clear-cut division between groups, and folks with lower testosterone can certainly still be aggressive monsters. Oversimplifying the problem isn’t going to fix things.
Your username reminded me of the Star Trek TNG episode with the planet run by women. Men are smaller and more subservient. Basically the women in power have all the negative egotistical traits that men are stereotyped with in our society. Riker is sexually coerced (but he enjoys it of course).
In our society, men have these issues. But women are not immune.
Is it testosterone? Or is it greater upper body strength and less fragile necks?
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I’ll be damned if I’m going to a frozen hellhole sober.
https://apnews.com/article/antarctica-base-alcohol-ban-sexual-assault-9a942ef7c552fa7ad54c872f3138ae4f
Maybe, maybe not. Either way, alcohol is not the proximate cause.
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This is the core problem. Booze just makes it worse.
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You’re right. My bad.
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