[ezdays]

Diane, you are perfectly in the right to be offended, it really sets the tone for how you interact with your peers, and that's not a good thing. How to overcome that without jeopardizing your position is difficult at best. They may eventually catch on after a while...  I wish you the best in your new position and with dealing with these twisted-minded people. 

It is very difficult in the workplace to tell co-workers just how you feel about things like this. It sets up a toxic environment where you are now on the outside and possibly wrongfully attacked. I understand that you don't have to accept their way of life, but out and out rejecting or reporting them is extremely difficult. When we had our business, my wife ran the assembly area and she would tell me how frequently some of the girls would openly discuss their prancing around after hours. One time we hired a very attractive woman, and she joined us for our regular Friday after work beer get-together. I felt extremely uncomfortable, as did some of the other men, just being around her the way she talked about herself and her husband. She left with one of our techs, neither lasted long as employees, it was hard to keep them on after the way they acted. They may have been good in the bedroom, but not in the assembly room. These things happened over 30 years ago, well into the "sexual revolution". Our job was to make sure they did what they were hired to do, and it was uneasy for us to engage in their after-hour activities.

I just mentioned elsewhere about the cartoons the kids see today. They talk about the older cartoons being violent, yet today's junk are full of violence, sex and fantasy far beyond the Bugs Bunny and roadrunner cartoons. I'm appalled at what kids are being taught in schools today, they can graduate without knowing how to add or fill out a job application, yet they are well educated on transvestites, homosexuality and how to intimately please their sexual partner. Things that are well beyond the scope of what our schools are suppose to be teaching. I remember when you were a teenager before your parents told you the "facts of life". You knew a lot of that already, but they didn't know that. Now the bar for kids is so low they have no fear of tripping, yet those who are morally straight are shunned for their beliefs.