--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> > > wrote: > <snip> > > > And in any event, what they get to ask about is > > > *sexual history*, not just "sexual harassment." > > > So that part was wrong too. Clinton didn't get > > > asked about "previous sexual harassment." > > > Lewinsky wasn't an instance of sexual harassment, > > > obviously. > > > > You're correct when you say they get to ask about previous sexual > > history... > > > > About 10 million feminists will disagree with you when you say that > > the Lewinsky affair wasn't an instance of sexual harassment. > > > > I just had to take a course on a course on sexual harassment in the > > workforce (to keep a license current) and I can assure you that a > > person in power having on-site sexual relations with an underling -- > > consensual or otherwise -- most definitely falls under the > > definition of sexual harassment. > > Only if the underling complains. It's a legal > definition that comes up only if there's a lawsuit > (or it's grounds for dismissal if the underling > complains to the person in power's superior--which > doesn't apply in the Lewinsky case, since the > president doesn't *have* a superior). >
Ironically, the sexual harassment in the Lewinsky is probably just as strong FROM THE PRESIDENT'S SIDE as from Lewinsky's. And I'm talking about quid pro quo harassment, which usually involves the one in the superior position demanding sex in exchange for giving, say, a promotion to the underling or not firing her. However, as I learned on the course I just took, quid pro quo can go in both directions. In the Lewinsky situation, Monica asked for -- and received -- a very lucrative job offer with Revlon that the President arranged through one of his friends (Vernon Jordan?). The argument can be made that the president was threatened with exposure by Monica -- either explicitly or implicitly -- if he didn't comply. Indeed, if I remember correctly, at one point in their phone conversations, Clinton told Monica that it was a crime to blackmail the President of the United States. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
