It is interesting how the topic of sexual harrassment came up when David Letterman admitted to having sex with some of his workers. Is that what I should call them? Workers? Colleagues? Women who wanted to sleep their way to the top? Not that I think any of them intentionally would ever say that is what they were doing but it is an interesting concept to think through.
The US Equal Opportunity Commission website describes sexual harassment as the following:
The victim as well as the harasser may be a woman or a man. The victim does not have to be of the opposite sex.
The harasser can be the victim’s supervisor, an agent of the employer, a supervisor in another area, a co-worker, or a non-employee.
The victim does not have to be the person harassed but could be anyone affected by the offensive conduct.
Unlawful sexual harassment may occur without economic injury to or discharge of the victim.
The harasser’s conduct must be unwelcome.
I can’t help but think that any conduct that David Letterman was ”conducting” was unwelcome. I am not taking sides as I am all for women’s rights, etc, etc but I would have to hear more details and “the other side of the story” to see this as anything but a case of a man in power and women that are enamored with that power. The person I feel the most sorry for is David Letterman’s wife.
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