Joseph Madonia, a Chicago lawyer representing a half-dozen current and former cadets who say they were raped, described the measures as an effort to cover over the deeper problem of a culture of hostility toward women with a "blanket solution".
Hostility was measured using the 20-item Chinese Hostility Inventory Short-Form (CHI-SF) [ 38], which contained four dimensions of hostility: (1) hostile cognition (six items, α =.78); (2) hostile affection (four items, α =.78); (3) expressive hostility (five items, α =.76); and (4) suppressive hostility (five items, α =.73).
"The kind of atmosphere where sexual harassment flourishes is not only where there is a general atmosphere of hostility and problems," she said, "but where workers do not trust top management".
The same pattern was found for the associations between the determinants and child externalizing problems (Table 4); postnatal symptoms of hostility of the mother (OR 1.34, 95% CI 1.20; 1.50, p value <0.001) and of the father (OR 1.33, 95% CI 1.19; 1.48, p value <0.001) independently contributed to the likelihood of child externalizing problems.
As shown in these models, we found that the initially significant associations of postnatal depressive symptoms of mother and father with an increased risk of internalizing problems were no longer significant after adding postnatal parental symptoms of hostility.
In other words, averting our eyes and avoiding certain forums won't solve the problem of how to deal with those forums when they tolerate and encourage attitudes of hostility and exploitation of women and underage girls.
Citing the easing of restrictions over the past two years, a senior Israeli government official said last week, "In the absence of hostility and in an environment of peace and quiet, Israel has no problem continuing this process".
Furthermore, perceived parental rejection was found to be the strongest predictor of the level of hostility in adolescents and adults [ 20], and of aggression/delinquency and attention problems [ 4].
Undertones of hostility and resentment".
There's a lot of hostility there.
