Time to piss you all off again

Kamineko · Subject: Time to piss you all off again Tue Aug 12, 2008 1:57 pm

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Sexual harassment okay as it ensures humans breed, Russian judge rules
A Russian advertising executive who sued her boss for sexual harassment lost her case after a judge ruled that employers were obliged to make passes at female staff to ensure the survival of the human race.

By Adrian Blomfield in Moscow
Last Updated: 1:12PM BST 30 Jul 2008

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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MGL · Subject: Re: Time to piss you all off again Tue Aug 12, 2008 2:41 pm

That's just... I... but...

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Capn_ARG · Subject: Re: Time to piss you all off again Tue Aug 12, 2008 3:29 pm

It's almost so terrible it's hilarious. (kind of like an extremely cheesy porno storyline, but way too real to actually laugh at)

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r1nn · Subject: Re: Time to piss you all off again Wed Aug 13, 2008 1:51 am

OK, that's it. I'm canceling my future trip to Russia. Crossed arms

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Lady · Admin Number of posts: 3116 Registration date: 2007-10-12

oh, for the love of

NOT ENOUGH RAGE AND CONFUSION

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Capn_ARG · Subject: Re: Time to piss you all off again Wed Aug 13, 2008 3:32 am

Mac wrote:

Oh my lawd, that made me lol something fierce...

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Lady · Admin Number of posts: 3116 Registration date: 2007-10-12

Still a tad miffed and confused. But seriously, this is ridiculous. Sexual harassment - and apparently assault - are the only way to ensure the survival of the human race?

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Kamineko · Subject: Re: Time to piss you all off again Wed Aug 13, 2008 3:59 am

I think the fact that 100% of polled russian women have been sexually harrassed. And almost 40% have been advanced on to the point where they've been pressured into sex is more rage inducing.

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Lady · Admin Number of posts: 3116 Registration date: 2007-10-12

Indeed. Isn't the workplace a wonderful world?

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Dicky Galoot · Subject: Re: Time to piss you all off again Wed Aug 13, 2008 5:03 am

....Communism=less rape?

Lady · Admin Number of posts: 3116 Registration date: 2007-10-12

No, it could mean more. It's expected to be sexually harassed.

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Dicky Galoot · Subject: Re: Time to piss you all off again Wed Aug 13, 2008 5:41 am

Oh, I thought it was saying "since Soviet times" as in, after the fall of Communism.

Kamineko · Subject: Re: Time to piss you all off again Wed Aug 13, 2008 10:09 am

In soviet Russia there is no rape.

This is because they do not believe rape exists.

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r1nn · Subject: Re: Time to piss you all off again Wed Aug 13, 2008 3:51 pm

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Lord Golbez · Number of posts: 132 Registration date: 2007-10-12

PinkSpider wrote:

I think the fact that 100% of polled russian women have been sexually harrassed. And almost 40% have been advanced on to the point where they've been pressured into sex is more rage inducing.

Seriously. I couldn't help laughing at the article at first simply because the judge's reasoning was so utterly absurd, but as the article went on I grew more and more angry.

Gilgamesh · Subject: Re: Time to piss you all off again Thu Aug 14, 2008 7:29 am

Lord Golbez wrote:

PinkSpider wrote:

I think the fact that 100% of polled russian women have been sexually harrassed. And almost 40% have been advanced on to the point where they've been pressured into sex is more rage inducing.

Seriously. I couldn't help laughing at the article at first simply because the judge's reasoning was so utterly absurd, but as the article went on I grew more and more angry.

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