‘It Just Comes with the Territory’: Discursive Normalisation of Sexual Harassment in Bars
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Abstract
This thesis is concerned with bartenders' construction of their experiences with customer sexual harassment. Increasingly recognized as problematic and unwanted in other workplaces, sexual harassment in bars is somewhat understudied, and little to no research has been undertaken in this context from a discourse analytic perspective. This study, motivated by own bartending experience, attempts to contribute to knowledge by investigating the role of discourse in the normalisation of sexual harassment. Using data collected from the social media website reddit.com, as well as three semi-structured interviews with female bartenders, I utilize analytical tools from Critical Discourse Analysis and Systemic Functional Linguistics to determine if and how bartenders themselves are complicit in this normalisation. Furthermore, I situate my findings in Bartenders often do not classify their experiences as harassment; rather, they consider it unremarkable and 'just part of the job'. The results of this study suggest that bartenders use discourse that reinforces the normalisation of sexual harassment. These findings highlight the need for a discursive analytic approach to studying and addressing customer sexual harassment of bartenders.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".