Only on the show “Yes, yes, YES, minister!”
Seriously? :rolleyes:
She shouldn’t have to say no thanks. That’s pretty much the whole reason why sexual harassment is generally disfavored; it often results in people doing things they don’t want to do because they are afraid of negative employment consequences.
She could also have said, “no thanks” if he asked her for a blowjob. The fact that she didn’t doesn’t mean it’s appropriate behavior in the context of an employment relationship.
Well, it seems there’s a juicy scandal emerging: the Tories have a list of 36 of their number engaged in inappropriate behaviour. And then there’s Labour. Jared O’Mara is apparently just the tip of the iceberg.
The discussion is about shopping for sex toys alone for a wife, not propositioning an employee for oral sex.
Again, less of the hysteria, please.
Post 13 covers this
No it doesn’t. The post here tries to introduce an equivalence with requesting oral sex.
No, it uses oral sex as an example. There is appropriate workplace behavior and inappropriate workplace behavior. Is asking someone to go dildo shopping the same as asking for oral sex? Of course not. But it’s on the same continuum.
And both are unacceptable.
On behalf of all concerned we appreciate your judgment on behalf of the internet. It’s been a very worthwhile exercise.
The Defence Secretary is down, the Defence Secretary is down
Michael Fallon resigns, citing his past behaviour.
Good. How many will follow his example?
He’s just voicing what all of us were saying. You on the other hand were deliberately trying not to get it. You were downplaying the sexual part of being required to get sex toys, ignoring how consent works with your boss, and then jumping on a specific phrase rather than understanding the point.
Making someone under you go buy you sex toys is inappropriate. Hence why the guy is having to resign.
Different guy who resigned today.
If the guy thought he might be recognized, I can see why he didn’t want to buy it himself. But it just goes to show what happens whey high officials are not computer literate. If he ordered it from Amazon UK or one of a large number of online sex stores, none of this would have happened.
He’s not some poor techno-naif just trying to get by as best he can in a confusing world. He wasn’t asking his young female subordinate to buy sex toys for his wife and mistress, then accompanying her to the shop to oversee the purchase, because he didn’t know how Amazon worked. He did it for the thrill.
This shit is always about power. The power to “ask” his young researcher to go to a sex shop, when almost any other boss in the UK wouldn’t or couldn’t. The knowledge she didn’t have the power to say no. The masterful feeling of making her play a part in his sex life. The thrill of being untouchable…
On behalf of everyone else, your lack of judgment - whether real or feigned - is not appreciated.
Labour MP Kelvin Hopkins has been suspended from the Labour Party. As a contemporary of Margaret Moran, I’m not surprised.
Eh? Please explain -are you lumping in together all the 1997 intake or something?
And I’m trying to think of a proper British safe word.
Googling it appears “Houses” might be a candidate.