Andrew Cuomo is in trouble. Accused of sexual harassment.
Clicked on it with delight. ‘Cos I don’t like him one bit. But I don’t know…one of the things said he asked a female colleague if she had slept with an older man. Obviously far too intimate a question. But is that sexual harassment? No touching at all remember. In fact not one of those accusing him have said he touched them in anyway.
No denying that a man can make a woman uncomfortable with salacious talk. But does that constitute harassment?
Nicola Sturgeon I notice is making great play about how shocked she was to hear of the sexual harassment claims about Alex Salmond. She’s said I think pointedly that Salmond hasn’t apologised to the women involved.
Well, all charges were dismissed in his case. Maybe Alex Salmond deserves an apology from the women that put him through hell for two years with the threat of jail with what you might call frivolous claims.
I know one claim was that Salmond pretended to be a Zombie in the company of a female colleague. Not very edifying for the First Minister of Scotland I grant you. In this Zombie mode he tried to kiss her. I don’t know it just seems to me a clumsy attempt at a pass. And for that you can possibly go to jail now.
In the case of Charlie Elphricke he has gone to jail. For two years.
I thought it was harsh I’ve got to be honest. The infamous quote here is ‘I’m a naughty Tory’ rubbed her breast and tried to kiss her. The only other one years later he tried to put his hand up a woman’s skirt. She rebuffed him and he stopped. That was it. Two years. Lost his job, wife, estranged from his daughter. 40 character witnesses- his lawyer appealed to the female judge ‘he has learned his lesson’. No mercy. Two years in jail. Not suspended.
I don’t know the particular circumstances. But couldn’t he have misread the situation?
Now someone like Max Clifford did deserve jailtime. Why? Because he got IT out. His ‘little winkke’ as he called it. Now we all know that crosses the line. That was definitely sexual harassment.
Mind you Max suffered a lot. His daughter has said that his enduring a freezing jail cell contributed to his death.
Not a popular opinion I wouldn’t imagine but the problem with the first three is having women in the workplace. It’s true. Or rather having men and women in the workplace. The man, the proper breadwinner, gets confused in his relationship with women colleagues. He doesn’t know if he’s been flirted with if he’s the boss.
Men aren’t always astute at reading these things. I remember myself being at work once with a woman. I was like Charlie Brown and ‘the little red head girl’. My heart beating, sweating, I didn’t know what I was doing. Yes, I was confused.
Nominated by: Miles Plastic



