pornography in the workplace

[Anonymous <no_email@fake.address>]

I had an interesting occurance at my workplace the last few weeks, and I was
hoping that you could help me put it into perspective.

I work in a restaurant in Portland, OR.  A few weeks
ago I changed my clothes for work in an upstairs storage area.  There is an
employee room in the basement, but it's a generally unsavory space so I
avoided it.  The manager on duty, an old friend of mine, Thelma (all names 
have been changed, of course), told
me that it really wasn't o.k. for me to keep my private effects upstairs and
that I would need to take them to the employee room, like everyone else. 

I went down to the employee room, to the locker banks.  I noticed when I got
there that there were a few lockers with pornographic photos on them, and
some cut out phrases.  One of the phrases was "girls suck dick".  One of the
cut out pictures was of a naked woman, behind in the air, with an arrow
pointed to her bottom that had the phrase "pump your cock here" printed on
it.  Naturally, I felt this kind of hostile commentary didn't need to be in
my face in the employee room, so I tore the pictures down and put them on
the inside of the lockers they were taped onto.  

I went upstairs to work, but not without pulling Thelma aside to ask her
what her personal opinion on such matters was.  She asked me to go back
downstairs to have a look with her.  She was equally offended, took the
offending cut-outs, and a copy of "Barely Legal" magazine out of the
employee room and threw them away.  She said she'd talk about it at the
managers meeting the next day.

Well she did, and that's when things got ugly.  A number of the managers
where appalled, not with the pictures but with me.  One in particular said
more or less that I was just looking for something to complain about.  This
woman, Darla, has always had a problem with me.  Thelma said "this isn't a
personal issue, Darla" to which she objected.  Then she said she didn't
beleive in censorship.  I also don't beleive in censorship.  I beleive the
people on staff who wanted to participate in that sort of printed material
should have the right to do so on their own time, but that I should not have
to be subjected to it at work.  The general attitude at the meeting,
according Thelma, was that it was a ridiculous problem and it was brushed
over without any plan to combat the problem.

The next day I went to work and a co-worker cornered me in the employee
room.  Jack said "Hannah, did you rip down the picture on my locker?"  I
said yes, and that I put it on the inside of his locker, and that Thelma
later threw it away.  He said I think it was "passive-aggressive" of you to
do so and then tell management without confronting me first.  I asked him
how he knew that *I* had a problem with it.  He said there are "rumors all
over the place" about the matter.  I said that I had indeed not made an
issue out of it with management, and that someone else had, but now that the
spot light was on me I would be more that happy to publicly take a position
on the matter.  An involved arguement on pornography in the workplace ensued.

The general manager stepped in to ask what was wrong,
at which point I said to her that the very people on her staff who should be
supportive of me on this issue, who should have kept my complaint private,
had chosen to proclaim that I was the antagonist who was curtailling their
freedom.  She said to me that her personal opinion was that I "shouldn't
make a feminist issue" out of this because we were never going to change the
cooks opinion about pornography".   But what about their opinion regarding
pornography in the workplace?

A couple of days later, the owner cornered me at work
and with much condescention asked me if I would please "handle matters like
this in a better way next time".  He insisted that if the wrong people got
wind of things like this he could be out of business.  I asked him if he
would hear my side of the story to which he said "I may as well, I've
already heard six other sides".  I told him my side, and eventually got him
to agree that his management team didn't handle it too well.  He also said
that the feedback he'd gotten was along the lines of "why should she be so
uptight about this?  Look at who she hangs out with"  (my boyfriend is in a
rock band in which there is a female member who has taken her shirt off in
public). I found that response to be egregiously beside the point.  He said
the pictures would all come down soon.

What I really have a problem with is that I was marked, ridiculed, ignored,
and defamed during the whole process.  I don't know if the pictures have all
come down, but there has been no declaration posted in regard to the matter,
and my reputation around work has been damaged.  Do I have any recourse?
Can you reccommend anything?  Everyone I consult says "just quit your job",
but that would mean that I was complicit to the continuance of said things,
because I was, afterall, the "outsider".  What do you think?