Woman Superior Cited In Police Harassment Suit

	posted by Matt on 11:11 AM March 11th, 2005
	cmdr iceman writes "Officer says his complaints were ignored by department. This article is just more proof that sexual harrassment laws were only written to serve women. The saddest part I found in all of this was how obdurate his male superiors were as they stymied the officer's efforts for the harassment to end and instead encouraged him to accede to her advances because she would be chief one day."

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At Last Some Recognition (Score:2) by Luek on 11:55 AM March 11th, 2005 EST (#1) "There is cultural conditioning that may cause some people not to take as seriously a man's allegations against a woman as seriously as a charge against a man," said Larry Dubin, a professor at the University of Detroit Mercy's School of Law. "But the law applies to both sexes." Here is one good aspect that comes out of this situation. It made public from an authority figure that there is cultural conditioning that causes men to be discriminated against in these he said/she said discrimination suits. Also, why is he only suing for a measly $25,000? If the genders were reversed we would be talking millions and the offending male superior would have been out the door from the start!

True sexual harassment (Score:1) by Hunchback on 01:24 PM March 11th, 2005 EST (#2) What's also really galling is that this is the kind of quid pro quo for which the sexual harassment laws were originally intended. It's not about a "clever" quip, or risque calendar, or "visual rape," or some other pea-under-the-mattress BS sensitivity complaint, this case is about Give me sex or your ass is grass. I agree that the $25K is a ridiculously small sum to sue for. That's a problem with men: We are too concerned with fairness, we concern ourselves too much about the true value of our hurt. Sometimes it helps to think tactically, politically, and... greedily. Suing for millions brings you press, gets your story out there, gets the issue talked about. $25K gets handled with a slush fund.

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