Via Kerry Howley, word that the Russians have adopted a novel approach to legitimizing sexual harassment:
“He always demanded that female workers signalled to him with their eyes that they desperately wanted to be laid on the boardroom table as soon as he gave the word,” she earlier told the court. “I didn’t realise at first that he wasn’t speaking metaphorically.”
The judge said he threw out the case not through lack of evidence but because the employer had acted gallantly rather than criminally.
“If we had no sexual harassment we would have no children,” the judge ruled.
Of course not! Because women would never willingly have children with a man who approached them as equals — that’s impossible!
Naturally, equality in Russia appears a ways off:
According to a recent survey, 100 per cent of female professionals said they had been subjected to sexual harassment by their bosses, 32 per cent said they had had intercourse with them at least once and another seven per cent claimed to have been raped.
Eighty per cent of those who participated in the survey said they did not believe it possible to win promotion without engaging in sexual relations with their male superiors.
But with the margin for error, maybe only 97 percent of Russian women have been harassed, and there’s no reason to get upset about that, eh, tovarishch?
@CharlesS: Vance thinks he's king, but doesn't realize that he isn't even venomous?