Toni
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Kind of like if there’s one bad apple, you can find yourself backed into a supply closet by your lecherous boss—who will fire you for resisting, much less complain. I’m not sure one can compare losing your job with being sexually assaulted but both are bad.
1) Note that I said "career", not "job".
So lolsing your career is worse than being sexually assaulted?
2) The actions of the bad boss in your example are clearly illegal--if you're carrying a recording device they're in deep doo-doo. The actions of the bad apple bring no repercussions.
Few employees carry recording devices in anticipation of being sexually assaulted by their boss or coworker. Nor should they have to. People should know how to treat everyone with courtesy and respect. People should be able to expect courtesy and respect on the job.
Of course that is not ok. But it's such a gross overstep that it should be obvious to everybody, even a 14 year old, that it wasn't a serious suggestion. It's certainly nothing to destroy a man's entire career over. It's something he should feel shame about but then be allowed to get on with it.
Yeah. I can't remember the exact context but it was something between my father and a publisher in which the publisher was listing a price as your firstborn. People sometimes give over-the-top prices as a joke.
No one actually expects to be forced to give up their first born child.
Plenty of people do expect 14 year old girls to sleep with older men who would be their bosses. In the case of the person in Dr. Z’s example, there are enough allegations that make his demand for sex from a 14 year old applicant to be as plausuble as such demands would be illegal and reprehensible. Certainly the girl’s parents would have taken such demands seriously. So would police. So would employers. So would any decent human being.