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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK
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To: j g cordes who wrote (3102)9/16/1998 11:00:00 AM
From: dougjn  Read Replies (1) of 67261
 
<<Hiram, didn't Bill Gates meet his wife at work? Can you imagine that potential sexual harassment case if it had soured and ended up in court...>>

I think its time for the reign of terror which sexual harassment lawsuits have created in some companies with especially over broad internal rules to END. Relentless unwanted advances, repeated crude sexual behavior in the workplace, and certainly any sort of pressure to by supervisors for sexual favors are of course all wholly unacceptable and should be subject to suit.

But this fear that a consensual relationship could later give rise to a suit because it sours is outrageous. It she consented, she consented, and that should be that. End of discussion. And stop all this power differential psycho babble. Adults have the right, and the responsibility to make choices. Coercion should be stamped out. And sex based ridicule and other sexual belittling stopped. Nothing more and nothing less.

The business of wondering whether a woman has in some illegitimate way been rewarded for her relationship is also out of balance. Clearly that sort of thing should not be allowed as the subject of a sexual harassment lawsuit. Are we going to assume every woman is a whore, liable to be bought by perks? Ridiculous. If someone rises whose work does not merit the rise, attack that as we would any other form of cronyism.

Doug
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