is this how it really was/is. it seems to me that you would just pack up and just and find a job elsewhere in stead of putting up with this *beep*
look a bit overdone to me.
i would rather be on death row than in that hellhole.
but who the hell am i?
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the mines paid many times what another job would've paid that was more "woman-friendly" so to speak. with the money from the mines, she was able to get her own room for her kids and pay her bills without help. she needed that job. also, it's not like being in new york or chicago. it's a more rural area. not much there to go to.
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Oh yeah, Flashdance is so realistic. The only woman on the job, who happened to be good-looking with a great body, suffers no sexual harassment on the job, even after everyone knows she is sleeping with the boss. "North Country" is unfortunately more realistic on that issue.
You must be the change you seek in the world. -- Gandhi
Much of the harassment shown in the movie was actually toned down significantly from the original events. You might want to read the book "Class Action", which discusses the actual events far more accurately and with none of the surplus drama.
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It really annoys me when people dont seem to understand when the movie is set and that it is not that easy ANYWHERE in Minnesota. I have lived here all my life, in the arrowhead and mining region which I bet many of you dont know where that is, there is a lack of jobs and so yes, mining was a good job, also to clarify rural minnesota is more considered in the southern region of the state and I have only heard of the rural parts of northern Minnesota be referred to as Northern Minnesota.
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the places are i've been to virgina
The world is almost always a better place when people stand up to change something that is wrong. Why do some do that and others do not? The motivations really vary. We should celebrate the people who do, even if we do not understand them.
The movie was overdone, at least in the courtroom scene, but the triumph was real and the reality was dramatic and historic.
I think she could have gone to St.Paul or Minneapolis it would make sense to me it's the city.
shareBeing broke in a big city is often even harder than being broke out of town. If she didn't have kids it might make sense but she did. In any case, it's not the point. The point is, she shouldn't HAVE to just find some other job.
"He married her six weeks after the... previous sequence."
And go where? She had very little education, no money to up and leave somewhere else, this was her home, her parents her family her friends, etc. Besides, if you get into the habit of running away every time the going got hard, you spend your whole life running away. No matter where you go, there will always be someone who doesn't want you there or who will try to make trouble for you. They didn't run from adversity, they stayed and fought for their right to have equal opportunity to work a job and they won a great many freedoms for all of us. This case put a lot of sexual harrassment laws on the books, and it's in large part because of this case that YOU get to go to work and not HAVE to worry about your boss saying he'll fire you if you don't let him put his hand down your blouse or blow him or whatever. We all owe these women a debt of gratitude.
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