Friday, August 8, 2008

In Case You Needed a Reminder of Why It's Tough to be a Russian Woman

I really don't have words for this article that ran on the HuffPost today, you'll just have to check it out for yourself. Suffice to say:

Line so bad I had to cover my eyes #1: "If we had no sexual harassment we would have no children," the judge ruled.

Line so bad I had to cover my eyes #2: The judge said he threw out the case not through lack of evidence but because the employer had acted gallantly rather than criminally.

Horrifying statistic of the day:
According to a recent survey, 100 percent of female professionals said they had been subjected to sexual harassment by their bosses, 32 percent said they had had intercourse with them at least once and another seven percent claimed to have been raped.
100%?...100%! My god. How big was the sample? I guess I'm hoping it's wasn't a very scientific survey, but still...

Special thanks pw and tim, for sending me the link to this story.

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