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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (5859)	9/28/1998 2:13:00 AM
From: jbe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

Dwight, you say that a federal court has recently ruled that there does not have to be on-the-job discrimination to rule against the defendant in a sexual harassment case. Interesting. I'd like to see the link, if you can find it. If that is the case, I am more than a little troubled (for reasons that have absolutely NOTHING to do with Clinton & Paula Jones). So consider the rest of this discussion strictly OFF TOPIC. I don't have a problem with cases like the first one you mentioned -- when a boss was found guilty of harassing his female employees because he kept pin-ups around the office. Here, there were plenty of witnesses. I have a problem with cases where there are no witnesses at all, when one has a "he said/she said" situation. True, I for one would certainly feel harassed if my boss were to call me into the office, and drop his pants. I would tell him, in no uncertain terms, to stuff it (back into his pants). But unless he made a habit of this sort of thing, and unless he penalized me for not going along, I would probably not feel like taking him to court. What troubles me is that there are quite a few women and young girls out there who make unfounded accusations of rape. Now, where rape is concerned, it is possible to find physical evidence, if it is reported soon enough. How do you find evidence of "harassment"? How do you prove it (especially if the object of harassment was not penalized on the job for non-compliance)? And if someone is unjustly charged, and even exonerated, doubts about him will probably linger... I suspect that with the rise of sexual harassment cases, many male teachers, for example, are going to be scared to death to be alone in their offices with a female student. Some teachers/professors do take advantage of their students. The reverse is often true as well: some girls become infatuated with their teachers, and literally hound them to death, Lewinsky-style. Some are so unstable that if repulsed, they will dream up -- and spread -- all sorts of nonsense about the object of their unwanted attentions. I have seen it happen. In other words, sexual harassment litigation is a two-edged sword. I fear it can be used to perpetrate as well as to correct injustice. jbe