“Employers Are Obliged To Make Passes At Female Staff To Ensure The Survival Of The Human Race”
Sexual harassment okay as it ensures humans breed, Russian judge rules
By Adrian Blomfield - (TelegraphUK)
The unnamed executive, a 22-year-old from St Petersburg, had been hoping to become only the third woman in Russia’s history to bring a successful sexual harassment action against a male employer.
She alleged she had been locked out of her office after she refused to have intimate relations with her 47-year-old boss.
“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.
Since Soviet times, sexual harassment in Russia has become an accepted part of life in the office, work place and university lecture room.
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.
Women also report that it is common to be browbeaten into sex during job interviews, while female students regularly complain that university professors trade high marks for sexual favours.
Only two women have won sexual harassment cases since the collapse of the Soviet Union, one in 1993 and the other in 1997.
Human rights activists say that Russian women remain second-class citizens and are subjected to some of the highest levels of domestic abuse in the world.
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“If we had no sexual harassment we would have no children,” the judge ruled.
Combine the above ruling with the fact that 80 percent of Russian women believe that they have to sleep with the boss to get promoted, and you have all kinds of socio/economic TROUBLE.
I’m waiting to read Franchie’s reply. :o)
August 7th, 2008 at 10:08 pm__________________
Did you notice how franchie’s English syntax improved towards the end of her debate with sully & co.?
August 8th, 2008 at 12:23 amWell, you can’t say that Russian men don’t speak their rotten, filthy, corrupt little minds, that’s for sure. Maybe that’s why Bible-Believing Christians have been persecuted in that area of the world for a very long time: they don’t want to hear about sin, the Law of God, and the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
August 8th, 2008 at 1:18 amWe should steal that judge and make him judge here.
August 8th, 2008 at 2:54 amMike, are you refering to that sentence ?
“while female students regularly complain that university professors trade high marks for sexual favours.”
August 8th, 2008 at 3:09 amOffer them liquor too…that always works.
August 8th, 2008 at 6:26 am“…..trade high marks for sexual favours.”
with a lib?? ewwwww
August 8th, 2008 at 6:50 amsully,
a lib pussy is a PUSSY
August 8th, 2008 at 7:00 amThe judge is wrong, of course. But he might be technically correct if he had said the same of rape.
But maybe this is why the birth rate is so low and the abortion rate so high in Russia.
August 8th, 2008 at 7:22 amGet your stinking hand off my shoulder!
August 8th, 2008 at 9:34 am“..a lib pussy is a PUSSY”
nice syntax…. a wonderful word used twice in an almost lyrically concise and delightful turn of phrase.
August 8th, 2008 at 11:41 amok, still fond of my Wittgenstein style ?
August 8th, 2008 at 3:09 pmnot even Wittgenstein was fond of Wittgenstein style
August 8th, 2008 at 3:50 pm“not even Wittgenstein was fond of Wittgenstein style”
said a sibyllin philosopher
August 8th, 2008 at 4:06 pm