Woman wins $95m in Sexual Harassment case

have to say i'm a little bit on sunshines side here. how exactly do you expose a womans breasts, hold her down and masturbate on her.

i've found from experience these things take a lot of time and effort and normally some form of participation by the person you are masturbating on...

the flowers, chocolates and clothes too . hardly the actions of a serial rapist. me thinks there was more to this story than the court was told...

We are very, very happy

I should think so

NomdePlume wrote: »

Accepting gifts does not mean you are inviting/enjoying an assault, either, in any way.

Absolutely not but it's not exactly a strong way of saying "no".

These cases can be extremely complicated, she may not have wanted to do these things and he may not have realized that because she never made it clear to him. She felt coerced because he was the boss, he thought she was up for it because she seemed to be. Relationships in the military are banned for this very reason.

Sunshine! wrote: »

Did she happily wear and eat these? Did she stop working on the first instance? I reckon there's more to it than we're seeing, that they had a nice little relationship and he wouldn't leave his wife for her or something, so she went sour and THEN reported it.

Where does it say she accepted the gifts?

Seachmall wrote: »

No. more like he comes onto her and she responds positively because she feels she'd lose her job if she didn't. He thinks she's up for it, she feels coerced.

It happens all the time. We don't know the details of the case but it could've happened here.

So... he placed his penis on top of her head as a "come on"? :rolleyes:

It was a way to humiliate and degrade her, obviously. Nothing to do with crossed wires or thinking she likes him.

Busi_Girl08 wrote: »

Where does it say she accepted the gifts?

Think you'll find m'dear that I asked questions, I didn't give any indication of the answer. It DIDN'T say that, which is why I asked DID she?

NomdePlume: You can make a person "co-operate" by threatening them, you know. Lie there and shut up or I'll kick your head in / hurt your family, etc.

Accepting gifts does not mean you are inviting/enjoying an assault, either, in any way.

Depressing how quick people are to get suspicious of her.

I am quite familiar with the workings of emotional abuse. I was pointing out that there's a lot of answers that would affect a court outcome omitted in the information we've learned, and hopefully that is included in relevant statements. When the overall sum is a sickening multimillion figure, answers should not be omitted.

Sexual assault is a very real, very frightening occurance, but I am not losing sight of "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" at the same time. I am not calling her a liar, I am pointing out the fundamental ignorances that are there.