# Woman shatters glass ceiling; man sues **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 16, 2008, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-shatters-glass-ceiling-man-sues/468188 "2008-10-16T13:04:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-shatters-glass-ceiling-man-sues/468188/1 "2008-10-16T13:04:18Z")
That’s the headline. The story itself reveals that they had to work at it to nuance that particular headline: > [@](#): > > FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - An exotic dancer. A pole. A high heel. > > And now a lawsuit. > > A Margate, Fla., man is suing a Pompano Beach, Fla., strip club after he says a performer’s shoe flew off during a pole dance, shattering the mirrored ceiling and causing glass, as well as the shoe, to hit him. [http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/2008/10/15/20081015pole-dance1015-ON.html](http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/2008/10/15/20081015pole-dance1015-ON.html) .. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-shatters-glass-ceiling-man-sues/468188/2 "2008-10-16T13:31:51Z")
This reads like one of those exercises they have in law school, where you might have to decide such fun stuff as whether a pole dancer is an employee or an independent contractor, and whether there was a latent defect in the shoe, so that the manufacturer of the shoe should be added to the action. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-shatters-glass-ceiling-man-sues/468188/3 "2008-10-16T14:04:40Z")
For the lawyers out there, this reads like a modern _Palsgraf_. For “glass strip-club ceiling,” read “railroad scale.” ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-shatters-glass-ceiling-man-sues/468188/4 "2008-10-16T14:19:13Z")
Seven years bad sex? ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-shatters-glass-ceiling-man-sues/468188/5 "2008-10-16T15:49:56Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Seven years bad sex? Only if he caught something else from the stripper instead of just a shoe in the face. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2008, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-shatters-glass-ceiling-man-sues/468188/6 "2008-10-17T13:58:03Z")
“I’m at a strip club with a mirror shard in my eye and I can’t stop crying” :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2008, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-shatters-glass-ceiling-man-sues/468188/7 "2008-10-17T14:52:33Z")
I never considered having an accident at a strip club. Beats getting trashed by the bouncers. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2008, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-shatters-glass-ceiling-man-sues/468188/8 "2008-10-17T15:42:59Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Seven years bad sex? Well thats better than seven years no sex. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2008, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-shatters-glass-ceiling-man-sues/468188/9 "2008-10-17T15:46:33Z")
I was thinking we were going to be reading about _Romney v Palin_. ---
**Author:** ![Debon\_Err](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ea924/32.png) [@Debon\_Err](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Debon_Err)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2008, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-shatters-glass-ceiling-man-sues/468188/10 "2008-10-17T20:01:11Z")
They’ve been talking about this on the radio lately. There was another guy at another strip club who lost one eye in a fight. He went back a month later to the very same strip club and lost the other eye in another fight. No reason to go anymore, I guess. :smack: Bad year for strip clubs…